Friendly Fire May Have Killed FBI Agent

(CBS/AP)  An FBI agent was killed as agents closed in on three suspected bank robbers, and may have been shot accidentally by a fellow agent, the agency said.

Special Agent Barry Lee Bush, assigned to the FBI's Newark office, was shot Thursday as a stakeout team opened fire on the three armed men in two vehicles outside a PNC Bank branch on Route 22.

"Preliminarily, information suggests the agent may have been fatally wounded as a result of the accidental discharge of another agent's weapon during a dynamic arrest situation," the FBI said in a statement Thursday night.

Bush is the 51st agent killed in the line of duty, CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reported.

Meanwhile, New Jersey State police captured a third bank robbery suspect Friday connected to the deadly shooting of an FBI agent who had been tracking the men.

The agent's team fired on the armed suspects outside a bank branch in Readington on Thursday and two of the robbery suspects were captured shortly after the shooting. The third, Francisco Herrera-Genao, fled on foot and was arrested Friday morning in Branchburg, within a couple miles of the bank, State Police Lt. Gerald Lewis said.

Some 300 officers had been searching for Herrera-Genao, 22, of New Brunswick since the shooting. A Somerset County 911 dispatcher said authorities were tipped off Friday morning by a resident who saw someone matching the man's description.

Beverly Hardon was leaving her driveway for work when a man began banging on her car, she told WNBC-TV New York, her voice quivering as she spoke.

"He started hitting on my window, trying to get in my car," Hardon said. "I went so fast up that driveway."

Herrera-Genao begged a state trooper to shoot and kill him as he was captured Friday morning, police said.

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[tucano2]

I must admit there was a crowd rejoicing around a newstand yelling Bush has been shot dead - it was friendly fire - at last someone on the secret service got in close and did a good job. When the error was discovered the crowd diminished quickly hoping for better luck in future

[tucano2]

This is the result of recruiting from
gangbangers on the street-not one knows
how to shoot straight. The bangers are constantly
blowing the head off some 4-year-old a block away
from the intended victim. Now we have them in the FIB and another has been blown away. These idiots are copies of Fearless Fosdick.

[cbs_oliver]

This is the best coverage of this story. Over at CNN.com they have the accussed having completed robbing the Readington Bank using weapons.

This story shows that even when the events in the story take place right around the corner and in friendly and safe territory the news media cannot seem to ask the right people the right questions and get clear answers and avoid making the wrong judgements about the events when they report the story.

In short - they are generally willfully incompetent.

Except, in this case, CBS seems to be doing well.

I'd still like to know - more clearly than the reporting so far indicates - which if any of these guys actually had a gun within easy reach when the shooting was started or whether they were basically unarmed. The studied ambiguity of the FBI statements regarding this aspect which have been reported leads me to suspect that the FBI are avoiding clear communications on this matter and it may very well be that the suspects were unarmed at the time of the shooting.

[retmilspouse]

What?

[mainemade]

OOPS!

[zootallures2]

Floride in the water?
Global Warming?
The Jews?
The Muslims?

You're gonna have to face it you're addicted to death.

[gunownerdan]

When only the police can have guns, it's called a POLICE STATE.
Civilians can shoot better anyways.
Self Defense: A HUMAN RIGHT!
a-human-right.com

[feelfree1]

Cool wit, Iceman_1960,

Re: "If you accuse me of that again, so help me I'll disable your PUBLISH button for 5 minutes."

Good show!

[fascistusa]

America can be divided into different groups:

Inner Party

Fascist Clones who follow Mainstream Media/Mainstream History

Outer Party

Fascist Clones who follow Mainstream Media/Mainstream History

The Proles (Sheeple) aka Morons

The Rest of Us

Those capable of actual thought. Labeled Liberals, Conspiracy Theorists, Commies, America Haters, ect.

So the question is... which one are YOU??

[middleman8]

THEY GOT THE WRONG BUSH.