Crash kills Border Patrol agent, 28

A 28-year-old U.S. Border Patrol agent died early Sunday after a single-vehicle crash in rural eastern San Diego County, authorities said.

The County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the agent as Jarod Dittman. The Border Patrol wouldn’t confirm his name, saying only that the victim was married with a child and had been an agent for more than a year.

Officials say the agent had started his shift at midnight and drove a Jeep on Otay Lakes Road to his patrol area near Jamul. An hour later a second agent came upon the wreck and called emergency crews. The injured agent was taken to a hospital where he died at 2 a.m. Sunday.

The incident is being investigated by the California Highway Patrol.