Incompetence hardly seems to be the appropriate word choice, given the facts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
A suspect named Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, who suffered a gunshot wound, was arrested at the scene.
Here is what has been made public to date:
Osorio-Arellanes was charged initially [presumably in mid-December] with illegal entry in a case that is published on PACER, an online database of federal court filings. But that case was terminated when Osorio-Arellanes and several unidentified co-defendants were secretly indicted April 20 for murder by a federal grand jury.
Three weeks later, a judge temporarily unsealed the indictment, which lists co-defendants whose names were blacked out because they had not been apprehended. Since then, the entire case has been invisible. A clerk at the federal court in Tucson confirmed that the file is sealed, including the judge's reason for closing it. Even the docket is hidden from public view, so a search for U.S. vs. Osorio-Arellanes turns up no record of the homicide prosecution.
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Thanks, Mesta.