A manhunt is underway for a 32-year-old woman who is suspected of buying the pistols used in the Killing a Border Patrol agent in Vermont Last week, according to a report.
Legal enforcement agencies in various states are looking for Michelle J. Zajko, who is considered ‘armed and dangerous’, reported Albany’s Times Union, stating police files.
US Border Patrol Agent David “Chris” Maland Was shot near the border between Canada Vermont on January 20 and four days later, Teresa Youngblut, 21, was taken into custody.
“The office district of the American lawyers of Vermont has accused Youngblut of mistreatment on a federal law enforcement officer,” said the FBI office in Albany at the time. “Our hearts stay with our partners American border patrol Swanton sector while they mourn this enormous loss. ”
David Maland, a native veteran in Minnesota and the American Air Force Veteran, worked as a Borderpatrouille agent at the Newport Station of the US Customs and Border Protection. (US Border Patrol)
Maland was shot and killed during a traffic stop from Youngblut between Newport and Orleans, Vermont. Her passenger, Felix Bauckholt, was also armed but was deadly shot by federal agents after Youngblut opened the fire.
In February 2024, Zajko is said to have purchased the Times Union in Mount Tabor, Vermont, reportedly.
German national suspect identified in killing the American border patrol in Vermont
Zajko is also considered a “person of interest” in a double murder in Pennsylvania and another murder in California, public prosecutors revealed without mentioning her.
A border patrol agent moves a robot machine next to a border patrouille vehicle on southern route 91 near Newport, vt., Where an American border patrol agent was shot on January 20, 2025. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)
Maland, a native veteran in Minnesota and the American Air Force Veteran, worked as a border patrouille agent at the Newport Station of the American Customs and Border Protection. He spent nine years in the army and 15 worked for the federal government.
He was also a K-9 handler and previously served as a border patrol in Texas near the southern border, the Van Maland family told the Associated Press.
“On January 20, 2025, at about 3 p.m., a uniformed, uniformed United States Border Patrol (USBP) agent started a stop of a blue 2015 Toyota Prius Hatchback with (a) North Carolina registration … Feed an immigration – inspection while it drove to the south on Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vermont, “an FBI -criminal complaint obtained by Fox News States.
“The registered owner of the vehicle, Felix Baukholt, a citizen of Germany, seemed to have an expired visa in a database of a Homeland Security department. Youngblut rode the Prius and Baukholt was the only passenger in the Prius.
Teresa Youngblut, accused by the FBI in the shooting of the American Grenspatrille agent David Maland, in the office in the Newport City Inn January 14, 2025, in Newport, VT. , who confirmed her identity. (Associated Press)
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“Between approximately 3:00 pm and 3:15 pm, agents reported gunshots on the spot,” the explanation added. “Supervision of the border patrol Cameron Thompson was informed of the incident and responded to the stage of the stop and arrived at around 3.35 pm.
“Hey spoke with two of the border Patrol Agents Involved in the incident. They described that both baukholt and youngblut possessed firearms and that youngblut threw and fired a handgun Toward at leasting one of the uniformed border side agents or The Prius. ”
Fox News Digital has contacted the FBI Albany office.
Greg Norman ‘Greg Norman has contributed to this report.
