Thread: AZ: Officials ID man killed by border agent in Sells

Officials ID man killed by border agent in Sells

The Associated Press | Posted: Thursday, December 8, 2011 12:38 pm

Officials released the name of the illegal border-crosser from Guatemala who was fatally shot southwest of Tucson after he allegedly attacked a federal agent.

The Guatemalan consulate general in Arizona on Thursday identified the man as 28-year-old Byron Neftali Sosa Orellana from Rio Hondo-Zacapa.

Guatemala authorities say American officials told them that he was shot by an agent once in the chest Tuesday night after he became combative and got control of an agent’s collapsible steel baton and attacked an agent and a police dog.

They also say the struggle began near Sells on the Tohono O’odham Nation as border agents encountered a group of illegal immigrants.

The FBI and U.S. Border Patrol declined to provide details Thursday on developments in the investigation.

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/o ... ml?print=1

I would have been satisfied with Juan Doe.