Posted on 11/01/2018 6:35:25 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Illegal immigrants appeared to have “ambushed” two U.S. Border Patrol agents near the Texas border with Mexico and bashed their heads with blunt objects -- possibly rocks -- killing one agent and sending another to a hospital in serious condition...
Rogelio Martinez, 36, was killed and another agent, was injured while patrolling the Big Bend Sector, leading authorities to scour West Texas for the attackers, officials said.... it appeared Martinez and the second agent were “ambushed” by a group of illegal immigrants....“There’s a high likelihood this was an assault on the agents.”...
Martinez and his partner suffered traumatic injuries to the head and other injuries such as broken bones, ... Martinez died of blunt force trauma to the head, indicating the attackers most likely used a rock or rocks during the assault on the two agents....
“There were no indications the agents fired their weapons,” Judd said,... Martinez was notified there was illegal immigrant traffic in the area near Interstate 10,... He began following “footprints” on a trail when the attack occurred....
Martinez was from El Paso and had worked as a border agent since August 2013. He was also a father and brother.
The Big Bend sector, ... accounted for about 1% of the 61,000 apprehensions made along the Southwest border between 10/2016 - 5/2017. The region's mountains make it a difficult area for people to cross....
The Border Patrol website lists 38 agents, not including Martinez, who have died since late 2003 — some attacked while working along the border and others killed in traffic accidents. Martinez is the second agent to have died this year.
President Trump tweeted Sunday night: "Border Patrol Officer killed at Southern Border, another badly hurt. We will seek out and bring to justice those responsible. We will, and must, build the Wall!"
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
RIP Rogelio Martinez -Defending our border-Beat to death by ROCKS in the hands of hostile invaders.
One year ago POTUS tweets: ""Border Patrol Officer killed at Southern Border, another badly hurt. We will seek out and bring to justice those responsible. We will, and must, build the Wall!"
This is a hostile invasion.
It’s time for live rounds.
You might want to verify this story before posting it. I believe they determined that the more likely scenario involved these two falling into a ravine, not an assault with rocks.
Did they catch the Perps?
Not yet.
Fun is over. Take them out with weapons. This is proof that this entire invasion is deadly.
Fun is over. Take them out with weapons. This is proof that this entire invasion is deadly.
Check the publishing date.
> ““There were no indications the agents fired their weapons,” Judd said ....”
WTH!?
Guns, fully automatic assault rifles should have been drawn, loaded, ready to fire at the first sign of aggression, with one agent covering the other.
Am I wrong?
New details suggest border patrol agent’s death was an accident
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/border-patrol-agent-rogelio-martinez-death-fbi-new-details-accident/
Who knows, they never had any good leads to follow. It remains unsolved by the FBI.
Despite the FBI’s conclusion that there’s no evidence of an attack, the Border Patrol union still believes the agent’s injuries were the result of an attack.
“Our view hasn’t changed. Our view is he was attacked,” Chris Cabrera, a spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council told CNN referring to the FBI’s investigation. “It seems to me that they don’t have any leads.”
Hostile and perfidious media coverage kills as well.
If the agents had used their weapons to defend themselves, they’d be looking at a strong possibility of spending the rest of their lives in prison.
The personnel in the media need to be held accountable for the lives they cost.
What a stark contrast
Turn the northmost mexican border into a 100 mile wide dmz zone for our troops to take out anyone or anything attempting to cross it. Testing of new systems could be done there as well.
It might have been, we’ll likely never know.
Four months later, federal investigators have no suspects, and no evidence of an assault.
“We don’t have all the answers yet and we may never have those answers. So it’s still a big unknown,” said Robert Boatright, chief Border Patrol agent of the Big Bend sector.
The agents’ union remains convinced it was murder. A union official, not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, noted the agents were hurt while investigating possible smuggling activity in the culvert.
“They both know there’s a culvert there, and they both fell off? It doesn’t make sense,” said the union rep.
The investigation remains open. The El Paso medical examiner concluded that Martinez died from blunt injuries to the head, but the manner of death remains, officially, undetermined.
Murdering American border patrol agents. These invaders are going to make good “democrats”.
Time to out snipers on our borders.
It’s probably safe to assume the demonrats have recruited them and are running them for office somewhere.
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