Border Patrol Agent Issac Morales, via Gofundme.

By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

An off-duty Border Patrol agent has died after he was stabbed in the face early Saturday morning in front of his girlfriend in El Paso, Texas. 

Issac Morales, 30, was pronounced dead Wednesday.

Police said Morales was walking to his car in the parking lot of Union Drafthouse Bar shortly before 2 a.m. when 39-year-old Hisais Justo Lopez allegedly stabbed him. Police said the stabbing occurred after Morales identified himself as a Border Patrol agent.

Lopez was arrested and later charged with murder after Morales died.

To donate to the family, visit their Gofundme page. 

By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

Fewer law enforcement officers were killed as a result of criminal acts in 2015 compared to the year before, the FBI said.

The FBI reports that 51 officers were killed in 2015, and 41 were killed in 2014.

Those officers were killed during traffic stops, tactical operations, ambushes, domestic disturbance calls and while handling inmates.

Of those killed, 38 died from gunshots. More than half were on vehicle patrol.

That does not include the 45 law enforcement officers killed accidentally in the line of duty, often from automobile accidents.

Additionally, more than 50,000 officers were assaulted in 2015.

Slain Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas Jr

By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

Border Patrol agents participated in a 68-mile relay run Thursday to honor fallen Agent Robert Rosas, who died in the line of duty on July 23, 2009, San Diego Patch reports. 

It was the seventh annual relay to honor Rosas of the Campo Border Patrol station.

The relay race requires 22, 2.55-mile legs.

Rosas was often referred to as the “Mayor of El Centro” because of his “popularity and his friendly, witty demeanor,” Patch wrote.

Rosas was shot and killed while responding to suspicion activity near Campo.

Four people were arrested and have pled guilty for their role in the killing.

By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

A Border Patrol chase ended with one person dead and 10 injured near Laredo, Texas.

Agents were chasing a pickup off of I-35 at about 5:45 p.m. Sunday, MySA reports. 

The driver lost control when he tried to dodge a tire-deflation device.

It was unclear who was killed in the truck.

The injured were taken to hospitals in Laredo, San Antonio and Dilley.

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By Steve Neavling
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More than 50 police officers were murdered in the line of duty in 2014, according to new FBI statistics.

Of the 96 officers killed, 51 were killed as a result of felonious acts, the Washington Post reports. 

The average number of officers killed per year in the past decade is 50.5.

Of the 51 officers, 46 were killed by guns; four were killed by cars.

The suspects were killed in 19 of the cases.

By Steve Neavling

An off-duty Border Patrol agent was killed and another injured in a two-car accident Thursday morning near Laredo, Texas.

The San Antonio Express-News reports that the agents were driving near the Cotulla station at 1:40 a.m. when a car traveling the wrong way crashed into them.

The collision killed a six-year veteran of the agency. Another agent was taken to the hospital by helicopter, and his condition was unknown at the time.

Border Patrol didn’t release the identities of the agents.

By Steve Neavling

The FBI is grieving two of its employees after they were killed in a collision between a barge and a small pleasure boat in the Ohio River, the Associated Press reports.

Investigators are still trying to piece together what happened late Thursday night in the river between Cincinnati and Newport, Kentucky.

“It is with great sadness that we advise that two FBI employees were involved in a tragic accident late last night,” the FBI said in a statement Friday.

According to the FBI, the employees worked for the Cincinnati division but were not special agents.

The employees were identified as Bruce Eastlick, 28, and John Stack II, 29, the AP wrote.

By Steve Neavling

A new study by the FBI reveals that mass shootings are on the rise and killing more people.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the study found 160 “active-shooter” events from 2000 to 2013.

The study defines an “active shooter” as “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.”

The average number of active-shooter incidents in a year was 16.4 between 2006 and 2013, a steep rise from an average 6.4 a year from 2000 to 2006.

In those periods, 486 people were killed and 557 wounded.

Interestingly, the study found that the shootings often lasted less than two minutes and two-thirds ended before police arrived.

“Many active shooters have a real or perceived deeply held personal grievance, and the only remedy that they can perceive for that grievance is an act of catastrophic violence against a person or an institution,” said FBI behavioral analysis expert Andre Simons.