Texas Parks & Wildlife Department spokesman Mike Cox said Friday that authorities resumed the search on the U.S. side Falcon Lake to David Michael Hartley.
The 30-year-old was killed Thursday after his wife told police he shot in Mexican waters.
Hartley and his wife were traveling back from personal watercraft on Lake Falcon Mexico when six armed men came in two boats, Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez. Hartley said the constable was shot when the couple ran into the light of the sailors.
Hartley's wife, Tiffany, told authorities that circles back to her husband, but fled after hearing the bullets whizzing by his side. He fled in his Jet Ski back to U.S. soil.
One ship can cross the U.S. side the lake of fire to the woman, said Mike Cox, spokesman for the Department of Parks and Wildlife.
The sheriff's office was being helped in their investigation by agents of the U.S. Border Patrol and game wardens, the CBS affiliate KGBT reports.
The game warden's office was the only U.S. agency provides ships in the search effort, according to the sheriff's office.
Cox said the state will issue a warning Friday warning boaters to stay on the U.S. side the lake.
Falcon Lake is a dammed section of the Rio Grande which extends from the border about 60 miles from the border of Laredo, and is popular with water skiers and bass fishing. The border is marked by 14 partially submerged concrete towers that mark the route of the Rio Grande before the lake was created in 1954.
Cox says he has been at least five encounters with pirates in Falcon Lake this year.
Earlier this year, several fishermen were robbed at gunpoint on the Mexican side of the lake. In the attacks, officials say the gunmen were in the low-rise, low-powered commercial fishing boats in Mexico that are familiar in the area. Asked for money, drugs and weapons, cash and took what was available, but no one was injured.
Hartley and his wife moved to McAllen, Texas, from the Mexican border city of Reynosa about five months ago and planned to return to his native Colorado in two weeks, Gonzalez said. Gonzalez said Hartley worked in the oil business.
Reynosa has been plagued recently with drug cartels and Mexican authorities, but Gonzalez said he believed the shooting was a random attack. He has pointed out the dangerous waters as the result of clashes between rival Mexican drug.
"I would think that, right now, the prudent navigator wants to stay on the Texas side," Cox said Thursday.
Authorities said the shooting happened around 14:45 Gonzalez said the couple did not speak to the gunmen, and the woman ran to his boat on the shores of the houses along the lake first thing you could get help. He said he had traveled to Mexico for sightseeing and taking photos of a famous church in the Old Warrior.
This is identical to what was done in five boats in April, when authorities say they were approached by men who identified themselves as "federal" and requested medication. Sailors provided more than $ 200 before the pirates were chased back into U.S. waters.
Violence on the Mexican side of the lake has been rising for several months, as a society fractured between the dominant cartel in the Gulf region and former law enforcement, the Zetas, plunged many cities in the area of border with Mexico in violence.
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