Border Patrol agents involved in a shootout near Mission

May 11, 2011 5:24 PM
Naxiely Lopez
The Monitor

MISSION — U.S. authorities are investigating a shooting between U.S. Border Patrol agents and an unidentified man who fired at them from the Mexican side of the border near Chimney Park on Tuesday night.

The shooting happened near the winter Texan RV park about 11:50 p.m. after border patrol agents from the McAllen station saw a group of people trying to smuggle marijuana into the country on two rafts, said Rosalinda Huey, the federal agency’s spokeswoman.

“No agents were injured during the shooting and it is unknown if anyone on the Mexican side was struck,â€