SAINT JOHN, N.B. – Border guards across the country including New Brunswick are expressing shock and sadness over the shooting of one of their female colleagues yesterday in B.C.

Meantime some new details are emerging into how the female guard came to be injured.

Jean Pierre Fortin is National President of the Customs and Immigration Union.

He tells us a man in a van from Washington state pulled up to the border at Surrey, B.C. “Apparently he put the gun towards his head and shot himself in the head. The bullet went through his head and also hit the throat of one of our officers.”

The guard is listed in stable condition in hospital.

Fortin says his members realize they are facing a certain amount of danger on a daily basis when exercising their duties.