2 soldiers, Border Patrol agent dead in helicopter crash near Texas-Mexico border
Two U.S. National Guard members and a Border Patrol agent were killed and a fourth person was injured when a helicopter went down near Rio Grande City, Texas, on Friday, officials said.
Two U.S. National Guard members and a Border Patrol agent were killed and a fourth person was injured when a helicopter went down near Rio Grande City, Texas, on Friday, officials said.
Officials in New York identified the two soldiers who died as Army National Guard members Casey Frankoski and John Grassia III. The Border Patrol agent was identified as Chris Luna by the Department of Homeland Security.
The injured person is also a New York Army National Guard soldier, according to the National Guard Bureau.
The UH-72 Lakota helicopter crashed around 2:50 p.m. local time while it was "conducting aviation operations" in the area of Rio Grande City, on the border of Texas and Mexico, according to a statement from the Defense Department’s Joint Task Force North.
The helicopter had been assigned to a support mission at the southwest border of the U.S., the statement said.
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