FBI agent shot in Louisiana executing search warrant, suspect from Ohio killed

An FBI agent was shot and an Ohio homicide suspect was killed during a shooting in Louisiana while the agent was executing a search warrant for the suspect.

The wounded agent was taken to a hospital after the shooting in Pineville, La., the agency’s New Orleans field office said in a statement posted on its Twitter page early Wednesday. KALB-TV reports the shooting happened at a hotel in the city, which is about a mile northeast of Alexandria.

The FBI did not release the identity of the person who was killed but said the suspect was wanted for homicide in Cleveland.