Arrest carried out in connection with the ball death of a border patrol agent

A 21 -year -old woman was arrested and accused on Friday of having attacked agents of the federal police with a deadly weapon, after the death by the ball on Monday of an agent of the American border patrol on the interstate 91, near the Canadian border.

The woman, Teresa Youngblut, rolled south on Interstate 91 in Coventry, in Vermont, around 3 p.m. Monday, when agents of the border patrol stopped her car to proceed to an immigration inspection, according to the Documents of the file. During the control, the agents reported, Ms. Youngblut released a handgun and shot them without warning. At least one agent retaliated.

David Maland, an agent of the 44 -year -old border patrol known as Chris, was injured in an exchange of gunshots and was then declared dead at North Country Hospital in Newport, in Vermont. The only passenger in Ms. Youngblut’s car, Felix Baukholt, a German citizen, was also shot, then declared dead on the spot. Ms. Youngblut was injured by ball and hospitalized at the Dartmouth Hitchcock medical center in Lebanon, NH, where she stayed on Friday. His initial hearing before a federal court, for a charges of use of a fatal weapon during the assault of a border patrol agent and a chief of accusation of use and discharge of a Firearm during this attack, has not yet been fixed.

She risks maximum life sentence and a compulsory minimum sentence of 10 years if she is found guilty of the accusations, according to the office of the acting American prosecutor Michael P. Drescher.

Ms. Youngblut and Mr. Baukholt were under the supervision of the police for almost a week before the shooting, according to a FBI affidavit. An employee of a hotel where they stayed in Lyndonville, Vermont, had expressed his concerns about the two guests, who had been seen dressed in “fully black clothing of tactical style with protective equipment”, Ms. Youngblut carrying Also what a weapon seemed to be in an exposed transport case.

Investigators who searched their car after the shooting found tactical equipment, including a ballistic helmet; nocturnal vision monocular glasses; a tactical belt with a case; a charger loaded with cartridges; 48 cartridges of hollow tip ammunition won caliber .380; two complete respirators; and two two -way portable radios, according to the affidavit.