Mexican teen dies after Arizona border incident

Fox News ^ | January 5, 2011

[La Lydia]

NOGALES, Ariz. – A Mexican teenager who threw rocks at Border Patrol agents in the Arizona city of Nogales died early Wednesday, but the manner of death is now in dispute. A Mexican official said 17-year-old Ramses Barron Torres died after he fell from a border fence and hit his head on a rock. But state police in Sonora, across the border from Arizona, said companions of the Barron Torres claim he was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

Calls to Border Patrol officials weren't immediately returned Wednesday night. An FBI spokesman declined to release details of the investigation.

Alejandro Palacios, a spokesman for the neighboring Mexican city of Nogales, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that agents fired warning shots in the air after Barron Torres and other Mexican youths had illegally crossed the border.

Palacios said the youths then threw rocks at agents but none of them were shot. He said Torres, who lived in the neighboring Mexican city, died after he landed on Mexico's side of the fence. Sonoran police said Torres' three companions left his body outside the emergency room of the General Hospital in Nogales on the Mexico side of the border at around 3 a.m. and then left in a vehicle with tinted windows. Before the unidentified companions left, they told hospital guards that Barron Torres had been climbing a border wall to enter the United States when a Border Patrol agent fired a single shot that hit the teen....

While the victim's body had numerous scrapes and bruises — apparently caused by falling onto a gravel pile on the Mexican side — Sonoran police said the autopsy determined that the bullet wound was the cause of death.

[La Lydia]

The agent had a right to defend himself, and we have a sovereign right to defend our borders.

[La Lydia]

open borders ping

[A_Former_Democrat]

Sure breaks my heart
My achy-breaky heart

[TSgt]

[Beowulf9]

Of course when an illegal kills a citizen of the U.S. THAT is ignored by the press.

[rickb308]

Shouldn’t be hard to tell. Cracked skull vs. a bullet hole.

[WOBBLY BOB]

[Liz]

No problema. Landmine the border, now.

[FixitGuy]

SAFETY ALERT!

Tall fences present a health hazard.

[mrmeyer]

And have the NG patrol with these for any that slip through.

[SparkyBass]

The fall won’t kill ya, but the sudden stop might.

[WOBBLY BOB]

INCONCEIVABLE!
- mines can’t be unionized (or go on strike) or be charged with racism.

[Tupelo]

Next thing will be for the Just-Us Dept. to prosecute a Border Patrol Agent. Any Border Patrol Agent. This will reassure our “friends” in Mexico that we really do love and welcome them.
In this administration just as in the last administration, on the ground Border patrol Agents are expendable. Mexican “teenagers” are sacred

[La Lydia]

Fence at Nogales

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f58286cd970b-popup

[aces]

The bullet hole works for me, he should not have been throwing rocks at the officer, he should not have been scaling the fence, more bullet holes pleeeeeeeease...

[Mich Patriot]

"The agent had a right to defend himself, and we have a sovereign right to defend our borders."

A responsibility even.

Bullets...just doing the jobs rocks won't do.

[Iron Munro]

No, no, you frackin’ idiot.

You throw the ROCK at the HEAD.

[Joe 6-pack]

Sounds like the system worked.

[Peter from Rutland]

Good. 20 gazillion to go. In fact just nuke Mexico and get it over with.

[A CA Guy]

If they died on the Mexican side and they have the body, wouldn't be beyond the narcos to shoot him in the head after the fact.