The two suspects involved in a shooting that killed an agent of the American border patrol in the north of Vermont had an arsenal of weapons and tactical equipment, including 48 hollow point cartridges won of caliber .380, a ballistic helmet and Night vision equipment, according to the court. Déssell documents on Friday.
The suspects were identified as Teresa Youngblut, of the state of Washington, which was injured in the shooting, and Felix Bauckholt, a German national who was killed. The agent of the border patrol David “Chris” Maland, 44, also died in an exchange of shots on a highway at only 20 miles south of the Canadian border.
The court documents do not specify if Maland was affected by one of the balls of Youngblut or by a shot fired by an agent colleague.
The incident occurred on Monday after 3 p.m. on Monday, after a border patrol agent arrested a blue Toyota Prius 2015 Bleue to perform an immigration inspection. Several agents in three vehicles then arrived at the scene, according to court documents.
Bauckholt, the registered owner of the vehicle, seemed to have an expired visa in a database of the Ministry of Internal Security, according to court documents. The FBI had previously declared that the German national involved in the incident had a valid visa.
At one point during road control, Youngblut opened fire on at least one of the agents while he was standing in front of the PRIUS driver’s side door. Bauckholt then tried to draw his firearm, according to court documents, which prompted at least one border agent to open fire on Bauckholt and Youngblut.
Bauckholt was declared dead on the scene. Maland was transported urgently to a neighboring hospital but was declared dead around 4 p.m. Youngbut was taken to a local hospital, where she is still, according to court documents.
Investigators discovered a caliber pistol on the scene. 380 and a .40 caliber pistol that would have been used by the two suspects. Youngblut would have pulled at least two strokes. The agents retaliated with at least seven shots, according to court documents.
Homeland Security Investigations agents had been “periodic surveillance” from Buckhault and Youngblut since January 14, according to documents.
An employee of a hotel in Lyndonville, in Vermont, had contacted the police to tell him about his concerns about a man and a woman who had registered at the hotel, according to the documents. The woman, later identified as Youngblut, was seen bearing “an apparent firearm in an exposed transport case”. Bauckholt and Youngblut both wore “fully black tactical style clothes with protective equipment”.
After receiving the hotel employee report, internal security agents tried to speak with the two men. They refused to have a prolonged conversation, saying that they were in the region and sought to buy real estate, according to court documents.
Youngblut and Bauckholt then left the hotel and were seen walking in the city center of Newport five days later, Youngblut carrying a handgun, according to court documents.
The next day, a few hours before deadly road control, the two men stopped in a Walmart, where Bauckholt bought two boxes of aluminum paper. Documents indicate that the investigators found on the scene of the aluminum mobile phone shooting in what seemed to be aluminum foil, an apparent attempt to prevent phones.
In addition to the ammunition, helocular and monocular night vision, the investigators searching the prius suspects found a tactical belt with a case, a pair of portable bidirectional radios, a charger loaded with cartridges and a package of field targets Shooting, some of which had been used, according to court documents.
Youngblut faces two accusations related to the incident, in particular the intentional use of a deadly weapon while interfering with the federal police. His lawyer refused to comment.
Maland was a US Air Force veteran from Minnesota. His family described him as a devoted agent who “really embodied the service of himself”. At the time of his death, Maland planned to offer his girlfriend.
“The family simply has a broken heart. That’s all I can say, “said his aunt, Joan Maland, at Minneapolis Star-Tribune earlier this week. “He loved his family and eagerly awaited to live with the love of his life and his daughter.”
Maland was the first agent of the border patrol to be shot dead in the exercise of his functions since 2014.
