READINGTON, N.J., April 6 (UPI) -- A suspect in a New Jersey bank robbery that led to the fatal shooting of an FBI agent was arrested Friday morning.
The FBI is now investigating whether Special Agent Barry Lee Bush was mortally wounded when another agent's gun discharged accidentally.
The suspect, Francisco Herrera-Genao, was found hiding in the woods after an all-night search, the Star-Ledger of Newark reported. He had no shirt or shoes and was unarmed, State Police Superintendent Rick Fuentes said.
"Please kill me," Herrera-Genao reportedly said to the officers who found him, walking towards them with his hands in his pockets. "Please shoot me."
Bush, who was assigned to the Newark FBI office, was part of a team investigating a string of bank robberies in central New Jersey. Herrera-Genao and two other men had allegedly held up a PNC Bank branch in Readington immediately before Bush was shot in the parking lot of a garden center across from the bank.
The other suspects were arrested immediately and a fourth man, believed to have participated in other holdups, was also picked up.
Bush's shooting is being investigated by the FBI Inspection Division.
Bush was the first FBI agent to be fatally shot in 10 years and the 51st agent killed in the line of duty in the FBI's 99 years.
