A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot on a highway in northern Vermont south of the Canadian border, authorities said.

A United States Border Agent was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Vermont near the Northern border, Fox News has confirmed.

"We had Border Patrol, I bet they had over 100 cars just from them," said Mike Kamerling, a Vermont State Police sergeant. "And then you had state police from both Vermont and New York and virtually every other law enforcement agency in the region.

Fallen Border Patrol agent David "Chris" Maland was honored Thursday with a procession attended by hundreds of law enforcement officers.

Vermont officials are mourning the loss of a U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in the line of duty near the Canadian border on Monday.

Vermont State Police are investigating the death of a Brattleboro man Thursday morning, who was an inmate at the state prison in Springfield.

The FBI is investigating a Border Patrol agent-involved shooting, according to a statement from the Vermont State Police. A Border Patrol agent who was assigned to the agency's Swanton Sector, which monitors the Vermont-New Hampshire-New York border,

Vermont State Police have completed the investigative report into the Shelburne police cruiser crash that killed 38-year-old cyclist Sean Hayes of Burlington. That report is now in the hands of the Chittenden County State’s Attorney’s Office.

The FBI has revealed little information about Monday’s fatal shooting of Agent David “Chris” Maland during a traffic stop. A German national who was in the U.S. on a current visa was also killed in the exchange of gunfire,

Homicide numbers in Vermont have risen in recent years to levels not seen since the late ‘90s, and experts say much of the violence is fueled by a drugs-for-guns pipeline that leads to Massachusetts and other urban centers.

The Vermont State Police are investigating the death of an inmate Thursday morning at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield.