Nightly News   |  October 03, 2012

Manhunt underway for killer of U.S. Border Patrol agent

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent Nicolas Ivie, 30, was shot to death Tuesday near the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>> after a vast manhunt there's a reuters news agency report tonight that mexican authorities say they've arrested two people suspected of killing a u.s. border patrol agent in an attack that left another agent wounded. 30-year-old nicholas ivy lost his life not far from where agent brian terry was murdered back in december of 2010 . that killing set off the fast and furious investigation. the feds say this was an ambush, plain and simple. and they've been searching on foot and vehicles, horseback and from the air looking for they say as many as four suspects.