Border guard shot in neck at BC crossing

The story is  fuzzy at this point  in time.  It looks like the gunman shot  the guard while she was in the booth and then turned the gun on himself.  I guess, we will know more at a later date.

.....A lone gunman entering Canada from the U.S. shot a Canadian border agent inside her booth at a B.C. crossing point Tuesday before turning his gun on himself, RCMP said.

Surrey RCMP Cpl. Bert Paquet said the officer was airlifted to hospital and “was breathing at the time,” but her condition was not known. He said it appeared she had been shot in the neck.

Officers responded to a 911 call from a witness at 2 p.m., and found the border agent wounded and the gunman dead at the Douglas Border Crossing in Surrey.

“In the incident following the shooting of the officer, the lone male was pronounced dead at the scene from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Paquet told reporters.

Little was known about the identity of the gunman, other than he was in a van bearing Washington licence plates. Paquet said it was not yet clear whether the gunman was the owner of the vehicle. A witness at the scene told CTV it appeared there was a mattress in the back of the van....