Posted on 03/27/2007 8:18:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man who threatened him with a softball-sized rock at the border, the agency said Tuesday.
The agent fired an M-4 assault rifle at the man, who had escaped from a scuffle with another agent as he tried to run back into Mexico, said Border Patrol spokesman David Kim.
The victim, whose name, nationality and immigration status were not released by U.S. authorities, was pronounced dead from one bullet wound at El Centro Regional Medical Center after the incident Monday. Kim said he did not know where the man was struck.
Pablo Arnaud Carreno, Mexico's consul in Calexico, said the victim was a Mexican man who was apparently in the U.S. illegally. The Mexican government asked U.S. authorities for a thorough investigation.
"It seems unjust to shoot someone who is unarmed," Arnaud Carreno said Tuesday.
The shooting, reported Tuesday in the Imperial Valley Press, occurred shortly after 5:30 p.m. in Calexico, about 120 miles east of San Diego.
Border Patrol agents saw seven people climb a border fence, run to the All-American Canal and attempt to cross the waterway in rafts, Kim said. The victim was in a raft that turned around back toward Mexico.
Kim said the agent fired after seeing the man's arm cocked back with a rock in his hand.
Other people continued to throw rocks at the agents, Kim said. A Molotov cocktail that had failed to explode was later found nearby.
The FBI is investigating and the Imperial County coroner's office was performing an autopsy. The Border Patrol declined to identify the agent.
Johnny sutton is on a plane out there at this very moment.
Got to say it. Don't bring a rock to a gun fight. By the way a rock is a deadly weapon. IMHO the agent was justified.
Johnny Sutton won't make a deal with this one.
SHooting someone throwing a rock is marginal. DependshHow close, and how realistically threatening was it. This could easily be avoided with a nice big fence.
Sounds like another poor Border Patrol agent is going to jail.
Those poor, poor mexicans cross the border all the time and those Republican agents stop them all the time.In this theat poor alien creature was fighting the agents.
Sounds like another poor Border Patrol agent is going to jail.
Those poor, poor mexicans cross the border all the time and those Republican agents stop them all the time.In this poor alien creature was fighting the agents.
Never bring a rock to a gun fight! ;-)
name, nationality and immigration status were not released by U.S. authorities!!! Maybe he needed to ne shot?
Nah...It seems unjust not to shoot an armed trespasser, Sr. Carreno.
The illegal was on his way to Senior Carreno's office to pick up his matricula card so he can obtain his Americn Exress credit card. I'm not being flip, the consuls' offices are where the matricula cards are handed out. Oh, and I wish someone would try to assault El Seniorcito with a softball-sized rock and see how he likes it.
"Border Patrol agents saw seven people climb a border fence, run to the All-American Canal and attempt to cross the waterway in rafts, Kim said."
You try to invade our country, you get shot. It's that simple.
This agent was justified in shooting.
Have you seen the damage these rock-throwers have caused? Seen the bloody interiors of BP vehicles? Did you hear about the illegal who tried to bring down a BP helicopter by throwing rocks at it?
Trust me, shooting someone throwing a rock is not marginal down here on the border.
"It seems unjust to shoot someone who is unarmed," Arnaud Carreno said Tuesday.
So give him a gun, then he will be/was "armed"
When someone gets rabbit in his blood, we have to get it out of him. Maybe a few days in the box will take the rabbit out.
You have to get his thinkin' "right" then he won't be inclined to run.......
Hmmm... rabbits.... .22WMR... time to take to the field!
What newspaper reporters don't want the average reader to realize is that the rock-chuckers are indeed armed.
Most of us down here on the border see right through that BS.
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