U.S. Agent Killed in Honduras

[DoYouEverWonder]

July 30, 2005, 5:31 PM EDT

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent was shot and killed in an apparent robbery attempt at a Roman Catholic shrine outside the Honduran capital, officials said Saturday.

Special Agent Timothy Markey was visiting the shrine Friday when two assailants confronted him and shot him twice, according to Honduran federal police and the DEA. Markey was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

The U.S. Embassy said arrangements were being made to return the agent's remains to the United States. He would have been 44 on Saturday.

Markey began his DEA service in September 1989, according to a statement from the agency. He was assigned to the General Watch Unit at the El Paso Intelligence Center, in Texas, at the time of his death.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-honduras-us-agent-killed,0,2448242.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[bemildred]

1. Bummer. nt

[goforit]

2. 1989,........Wasn't Bush Sr. in office then?

Hmmmmmmmm....