David C. Maland was conducting the traffic stop​ on Interstate 91, about 20 miles from the Canadian border when "an exchange of gunfire occurred," FBI said.

The agent was identified as David “Chris” Maland, 44. Maland was a Blue Earth native and a graduate of Fairmont High School.

The US Border Patrol agent murdered during a traffic stop with a migrant in Vermont was an Air Force veteran who survived the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, his family said. David “Chris” Maland, 44, died Monday afternoon after a shootout with a German national on Interstate 91 about 20 miles from the Canadian border,