Posted on 03/06/2011 12:21:29 PM PST by rabscuttle385
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - On the night he was killed, there is no indication that Border Agent Brian Terry ever got off a shot. That is one of the revelations contained in a confidential document that 9 On Your Side has obtained.
The document is a BORTAC incident report - BORTAC being an acronym for Border Patrol Tactical Unit. According to the report, Terry was one of six officers taking part in a patrol in the Rio Rico area - not four, as the Border Patrol had previously stated. The Border Patrol has said very little about what happened that night, but after the shooting stated that four officers had been looking for bandits preying on drug and human smugglers.
The incident report states that shortly at 11:15 PM on the night of December 14, a group of five people approached the officers in the Peck Well area, where the officers were waiting in the dark. The agents saw that two of the men were armed with rifles. One agent identified himself as a Border Patrol agent - then, according to the report, fired two rounds from the non-lethal weapon he was carrying, a shotgun that fired bean bags. That agent, the report says, then continued the firefight with real bullets, fired from his service firearm. A second agent joined the firefight, using his service M-4 rifle.
The incident report does not specifically say, at this point, that the suspects returned fire. But after the shooting stopped, Terry cried out that he was hit and that he could not feel his legs. He lost consciousness moments later.
Later agents arrested four suspects - one of them was severely wounded. If any of the agents saw what the wounded suspect was doing when he was hit, it is not indicated in the report.
Out of an initial six suspects whose arrests were announced following the shooting, only one remains in custody - the one who was wounded on the night of the attack. Even that suspect has not been charged with murder as of yet.
This incident report was first leaked a few weeks ago and has appeared on various blogs. A reliable source told KGUN9 News that it is authentic.
If you meant to type “refried” beans instead of “refired” beans, it’s still funny as hell!
I typed it as intended....a double joke in one post!
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