The Officer Down Memorial Page identified the agent as Daniel Cox.
Duty Death: Daniel Cox - [Tucson]
End of Service: 31/07/2021
By Jamie Donnelly
The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson
SELLS, Ariz. — A Border Patrol agent and a civilian motorist were killed in a head-on crash early Saturday near Sells, officials say.
Few details about the crash have been released, but it happened around 12:30 a.m. on Arizona 86 near Milepost 128, east of Sells.
Sells is about 60 miles southwest of Tucson.
Multiple emergency response agencies responded to the wreck, but both the agent and the other driver were pronounced dead at the scene.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and co-workers of Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Dan Cox, who died in a vehicle accident this morning. Dan was one of a kind and a true leader among the agents pic.twitter.com/j6fKNPBwtY
— NBPC 2544 (@NBPC2544) July 31, 2021
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