The fatal encounter occurred around 3:15 p.m. EST Monday on Interstate 91 in Coventry, about 13 miles south of the Canadian border.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot Monday in Vermont on a highway just south of the Canadian border, according to authorities. The identity of the agent who was killed has not been released and the FBI said there isn't a threat to the public, according to The Associated Press.

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,