FBI Isn't Sure Whether Border Agents Were Attacked

After Border Patrol Agent Rogelio Martinez was fatally injured and his partner badly hurt in the Big Bend area of West Texas just before midnight Saturday, officials and lawmakers spoke of an attack, and a union spokesman said he believed rocks were involved. 

The FBI, however, now says the incident is being investigated as a "potential assault" and that other scenarios are possible, the AP reports. Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo says that in rugged terrain on a moonless night, it's possible that both men were injured after falling into the 9-foot-deep culvert where they were found, reports the Dallas Morning News

He says the injuries to Martinez were "very consistent with a fall," though it's not clear how his partner was also injured after radioing for help.

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