A shooter opened fired at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, on Monday morning, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said.
Border Patrol agents and local police helped “neutralize” the shooter, according to the spokesperson. Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector, which has six stations along the border, reported that the suspect is dead.
Two officers and a Border Patrol employee were injured, with one of them shot in the knee, the DHS spokesperson said, adding that they went to the hospital.
The incident took place at the entrance of the U.S. Border Patrol sector annex in McAllen, a city in southern Texas that borders Mexico, according to the DHS spokesperson.
It follows a shooting outside of an immigration detention center in Alvarado on Friday.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
