The Nation - News from Oct. 9, 1985
The FBI confirmed that Robin Ahrens, the bureau’s first woman agent to be killed in action, was shot in the eye by fellow agents who mistook her for a robbery suspect’s girlfriend. Herb Hawkins, special agent in charge of the Phoenix bureau, said no other details would be released at this time. Ahrens, 33, who had been with the FBI since last November, was shot when she appeared in a dimly lit hallway at a Phoenix apartment complex, shortly after agents arrested robbery suspect Kenneth Barrett, 27.
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