Excuse me? Do you make this stuff up?
From Reporting during the trial:
Man wasn't hit in back, lawyer for agent says
Author: Louie Gilot El Paso Times
Date: February 22, 2006
Publication: El Paso Times (TX)
Page: 1B[Gannet Publication - No excerpts allowed on FR]Families of Border Patrol agents on trial "fear for their safety", March 13, 2006
Compean, who along with Agent Ignacio Ramos is charged with nearly a dozen federal crimes including assault with intent to commit murder, answered hours of questions from prosecutors Friday.
He told jurors he shot at Osvaldo Aldrete Davila because he thought Aldrete pointed a gun at him after a brief foot chase and physical confrontation.
Border Patrol agents convicted in Shooting Case to be Fired, March 22, 2006
Federal prosecutors charged that the agents illegally shot a suspected drug smuggler and then tried to hide the crime. Both men testified that they only shot at Osvaldo Aldrete Davila because they believed he had a gun.
Aldrete testified during the two-week trial that he wasn't armed. When sentenced June 8, the pair face up to life in prison because of the civil rights charge.
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