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What is the connection between the Zizians and recent killings?
In January, near the Canadian border with Vermont, a Border Patrol agent pulled over a suspicious vehicle with two passengers inside.
This Border Patrol agent in Vermont was stopping a car because there had been suspicions about these two people. They're wearing all black, they're armed to the teeth.
That's our colleague Zusha Ellenson.
It was a shooting and they got into a gunfight.
Breaking news out of Vermont for you tonight. A U.S. Border Patrol agent we have learned has died along with another...
The Border Patrol agent was killed in the shootout, as was one of the suspicious passengers.
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, in California... There was a landlord in Vallejo, California, a little working-class city north of San Francisco, that was stabbed to death.
New at 10, Vallejo police are investigating the city's first homicide of the year. Officers say they found one man who had been stabbed...
The killing of the Border Patrol agent and the landlord occurred within three days of one another.
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