Photos: Arizona border agent killed
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U.S. Border Patrol agent Nicolas Ivie was shot and killed early Tuesday, Oct. 2, when he and two other agents responded to a sensor activation near mile marker 352 on Highway 80 west of Douglas.
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Doug and Donetta Ivie, Nicholas Ivie's father and stepmother, keep a slight breeze from blowing out a lit candle as they stand in front of a cross that has a photograph of the slain US Border Patrol agent during an outdoor memorial service for at St Michael's Mission in Naco, Ariz., on Thursday, October 4, 2012.
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Bisbee resident Kit Hutchinson holds a candle during a vigil at a memorial service for slain US Border Patrol agent Nicholas Ivie at St Michael's Mission in Naco, Ariz., on Thursday, October 4, 2012.
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Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, left, and Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner David Aguilar exit the home of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie in Sierra Vista, Ariz. on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. Ivie was shot and killed earlier in the week. A preliminary investigation has found friendly fire likely was to blame in the shootings of two border agents along the Arizona-Mexico border, the FBI said Friday.
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Cmdr. Jeffrey Self, of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, flanked to his left by Acting Chief Patrol Agent Manuel Padilla, releases a statement on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, at the Tucson Sector Headquarters in Tucson, Ariz. A preliminary investigation has found friendly fire likely was to blame in a shooting that killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas J. Ivie and wounded another along the Arizona-Mexico border, the FBI said Friday, shaking up the probe into an incident that re-ignited the political debate over security on the border. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star, Mike Christy) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; PAC-12 OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
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Christy Ivie, center, cries during a press conference about her husband, Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie, that was held at Cochise College in Sierra Vista, on Thursday. At left, is Christy's mother Deann Morris and her father Tracy Morris. At right is Christy's sister Jen Cloward.
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Joel Ivie, at rear, and his wife Anne Ivie listen as Rick Ivie and Chris Ivie, brothers of Nicholas, talk to the media about their brother during the press conference at Cochise College in Sierra Vista on Thursday.
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En esta foto sin fecha proporcionada por la familia Ivie se ve al agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza estadounidense Nicholas Ivie. Ivie, de 30 aos y padre de dos niños, fue muerto a tiros en un área escasamente poblada en el sureste de Arizona, el martes 2 de octubre del 2012. (Foto AP/Familia Ivie, Cole Kynaston)
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Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie, 30, was killed after he and two other agents responded to a sensor hit near mile-maker 352 on Highway 80.
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Det. Bill Silva of the Bisbee Police Department, left, and an unnamed agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration patrol a fence line east of Naco, Arizona, after a Border Patrol agent was killed early Tuesday morning.
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U.S. Border Patrol agents stand on top of their vehicles and look into Mexico west of Douglas, Ariz., after a Border Patrol agent was shot and killed on Tuesday October 2, 2012.
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U.S. Border Patrol vehicles parallel the U.S.-Mexico border fence in the area where a Border Patrol agent was shot and killed on Tuesday October 2, 2012 west of Douglas, Arizona.
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Law enforcement agents stand on top of an armored vehicle at the U.S.-Mexico border fence looking into Mexico during a search for suspects in the shooting death of a Border Patrol agent on Tuesday October 2, 2012 west of Douglas, Ariz.
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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter flies overhead in the area where a Border Patrol agent was killed early Tuesday morning on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, east of Naco, Ariz.
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A U.S. government drone flies high above the scene near where a U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed and another wounded early Tuesday October 2, 2012 west of Douglas.
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In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, law enforcement officers gather at a command post in the desert near Naco, Ariz., Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, after a Border Patrol agent was shot to death near the U.S.-Mexico line. The agent, Nicholas Ivie, 30, and a colleague were on patrol about 100 miles from Tucson, when shooting broke out shortly before 2 a.m., the Border Patrol said.
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In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, law enforcement forces and equipment gather at a command post in the desert near Naco, Ariz., Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, after a Border Patrol agent was shot to death near the U.S.-Mexico line. The agent, Nicholas Ivie, 30, and a colleague were on patrol about 100 miles from Tucson, when shooting broke out shortly before 2 a.m., the Border Patrol said.
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Municipal police near Naco, Sonora, during the search for suspects involved in the shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012.
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Municipal police near Naco, Sonora, during the search for suspects involved in the shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012.
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James Turgel, FBI special agent in charge, addresses the media during a press conference at the Brian Terry Border Patrol Station in Naco on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012.
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Jeffrey Self, U.S. Customs and Border Protection commander of joint-field command, addresses the media during a press conference at the Brian Terry Border Patrol Station in Naco on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012.
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Hours after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed, and one other was shot and injured, Jeffrey Self, right, of the Customs Border Protection Joint Field Command, Manuel Padilla, second from right, Acting Chief Patrol Agent Tucson Sector U.S. Border Patrol, and other Border Patrol agents listen during a news conference at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Station Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, in Bisbee, Ariz.
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The slain agent, Nicholas Ivie, was a father of two based in Naco, the station just re-named after Brian Terry, who was killed in 2010. The shooting area is a longstanding smuggling corridor but considered generally safe by residents.
Monday's shootings of two Border Patrol agents "just goes to show that whether you are an armed Border Patrol agent on duty or a simple rancher like Rob Krentz out working his ranch - if you're in border country you are in peril," said Rod Rothrock, acting sheriff of Cochise County.
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