Border Patrol officer's on-duty death in Big Bend area sparks FBI investigation

Authorities are searching Texas' Big Bend area for potential suspects and witnesses after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was fatally injured responding to activity there. Border Patrol spokesmen said they could not provide any details Sunday on what caused the agent's injuries or what led to them. Agent Rogelio Martinez, 36, died at a local hospital after he and his partner were taken there, authorities said. The partner, whose name has not been released, was in serious condition. Martinez was from El Paso and had been a border agent since August 2013. The FBI is now leading the investigation into his death, a Border Patrol spokesman said...more