A United States Border Patrol agent was gunned down during a traffic stop in Vermont near the Canadian border, officials have confirmed.It happened around 3:15 p.m. Monday on Interstate 91 in Coventry,

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.

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.