Police investigate a van at the scene of a shooting at the Blaine, Wash./Surrey, British Columbia border crossing Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in a van with Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
Police investigate a van at the scene of a shooting at the Blaine, Wash./Surrey, British Columbia border crossing Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in a van with Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
United States border agents work at the closed Surrey, B.C./Blaine, Wash., border crossing, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in a van with Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
Map shows Peace Arch border crossing on the US-Canada border, where a gunman wounds a border agent, kills self.
Police investigate a van, rear left, at the scene of a shooting at the Blaine, Wash./Surrey, British Columbia border crossing, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Surrey. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in the van bearing Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
Police investigate a shooting at the Blaine, Wash./Surrey, British Columbia border crossing, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Surrey. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in a van with Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
SEATTLE (AP) ? A Canadian border guard shot in her booth at a busy U.S.-Canada border crossing is expected to make a full recovery.
The Canada Border Services Agency issued the statement on Officer Lori Bowcock's condition Wednesday. Bowcock was shot in the neck Tuesday afternoon by a motorist entering Canada at the Peace Arch crossing at Blaine.
The man then shot and killed himself.
Bowcock was flown to a hospital in Canada, where she is listed in stable condition.
Officials are in the process of reopening the Peace Arch crossing's southbound lanes. Its northbound lanes are set to reopen at 8 a.m. Thursday.
Officials haven't released the shooter's name or a potential motive in the case. The investigation is ongoing.
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