PEMBROKE PINES, Fla., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Hundreds of officers joined the search Wednesday for the killer of a U.S. border agent who was shot in Florida as his daughter watched.
Donald Pettit, 52, a veteran federal employee who recently became an internal affairs investigator for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was gunned down in the parking lot of the Pembroke Pines post office, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. His daughter was with him, police said.
A reward for information was increased to $275,000 Wednesday. Police said Crime Stoppers contributed.
Deputy Pembroke Pines Police Chief Mike Segarra said Pettit and another man got into an argument outside the post office. The man pulled out a gun and killed Pettit with a single shot to the head and then escaped in a green Chrysler 300.
About 200 officers from local, state and federal agencies were combing the area Wednesday.
"We're not going anywhere until this ends," Segarra told a news conference late Tuesday. "I want this guy to know we're going to find him. He's not going to hide."
Officers were stopping cars resembling the Chrysler, handing out flyers and setting up roadblocks, the Miami Herald reported.
