An off-duty US Customs and Border Protection officer was shot in a Manhattan park on Saturday following an apparent robbery gone wrong, New York City police and federal officials said.

A second suspect in the weekend shooting of an off-duty United States Border Patrol agent in a New York City park has been taken into custody, authorities said on Monday. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said an accomplice of the suspect in the shooting and wounding of the off-duty Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer was detained over night.

A second man has been arrested in connection with the weekend shooting that left an off-duty border patrol officer wounded in a Manhattan park. Christhian Aybar-Berroa, from the Dominican Republic, was apprehended by ICE early Monday,