Thread: Border Patrol agent shoots, kills man near Sells, AZ.

Border Patrol agent shoots, kills man near Sells

Brady McCombs, Arizona Daily Star
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 11:46 am

A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man Tuesday night near Sells on the Tohono O'odham Nation.

Initial reports indicate that the agent shot and killed a man who was assaulting another agent, said the Border Patrol in an emailed statement. The shooting occurred at 8 p.m.

The citizenship of the man who was shot has not yet been determined, the statement said.

The agency said it "regrets the loss of life" and that it is fully cooperating with the investigation led by Tohono O'odham Police and the FBI.

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Border Patrol agent kills border-crosser in confrontation

by Daniel González - Dec. 7, 2011 03:47 PM
The Arizona Republic

A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man Tuesday night near Sells on the Tohono O'odham Nation in southern Arizona, Border Patrol officials said Wednesday.

In a statement, Border Patrol officials said the man who was killed was assaulting another agent when he was shot.

The statement said the man's citizenship has not yet been determined. Guatemalan officials, however, said the man was from Guatemala.

Julia Guzman, the consul general of Guatemala in Phoenix, said the man who was killed was 28 years old and from the town of Rio Hondo, Zacapa, Guatemala.

Guzman said she was briefed on the shooting by U.S.-based authorities but declined to name the source.

She said that according to the briefing, Border Patrol agents assigned to the Casa Grande station encountered a large group of illegal immigrants at approximately 8 p.m. After the agents made contact with the group, one of the illegal immigrants became combative and attacked one of the agents, she said, reading from the briefing.

An agent fired a single round from his Border Patrol-issued handgun, hitting the man the chest, she said. Efforts to resuscitate the man were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at the scene at about 8:45 p.m., she said.

Several other subjects at the scene were taken into custody, Guzman said.

Guzman said she interviewed seven Guatemalan migrants who were part of the group. The group included migrants from other countries, she said.

She said the Guatemalan migrants apprehended by the Border Patrol told her they did not see what led to the shooting.

"They didn't see (anything) because they ran away," Guzman said. The seven Guatemalans included two minors, one girl and one boy, she said.

She said the migrants most likely were headed to other states where they had relatives, including Florida, Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey.

In the statement, the Border Patrol officials said the agency "regrets the loss of life" and will fully cooperate with the investigation. The investigation is being led by the Tohono O'Oodham Police Department and the FBI, the statement said.

The Border Patrol is not releasing any further details about the shooting at this time, said Colleen Agle, a spokeswoman for the Border Patrol's Tucson sector.

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