Vermont State Sen. Russ Ingalls, an Essex County Republican, identified the agent shot to death at the U.S. Border Patrol’s Swanton Sector as David Maland while speaking on the state senate floor Tuesday, according to a report from WPTZ, the NBC affiliate in Burlington, Vt.

Officials said the agent was shot on Interstate 91, which was closed for several hours near the border with Canada.

COVENTRY, Vt. (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot Monday on a highway in northern Vermont south of the Canadian border, authorities said. The death was confirmed by the FBI and Benjamine Huffman, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in Washington.

Agent David “Chris” Maland died in a shooting following a traffic stop, the FBI said. A second person killed in the incident was a German national in the country on a current visa, authorities said.

A woman charged in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont is scheduled to appear in federal court

An arrest was made for the shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot during a traffic stop in Vermont, according to the FBI.

Associates of woman in Border Patrol agent's shooting death tied to other homicides in Pennsylvania and California.