The wounded agent was taken to a hospital after the shooting in Pineville, Louisiana, the agency's New Orleans field office said in a statement posted on it's 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.

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