A Washington state woman has been arrested and charged in the deadly shooting of a United States Border Patrol agent, the FBI said Friday.
Teresa Youngblut, 21, was taken into custody following Monday’s fatal shooting near the Vermont-Canada border.
Youngblut has been charged with one count of using a deadly weapon while assaulting a border patrol agent and one count of using and discharging a firearm.
The shooting happened after U.S. Border Patrol agent David “Chris Maland, 44, initiated a traffic stop on Youngblut’s vehicle on Interstate 91 between Newport and Orleans. Youngblut and her passenger, German national Felix Bauckholt, were both armed at the time….