Border patrol confirms Texas agent hit by bullet fired from Mexico
Border patrol confirms Texas agent hit by bullet fired from Mexico
By Caleb Downs, mySanAntonio.com
Updated 11:39 am, Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Photo: JERRY LARA, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
FILE — A U.S. Border Patrol unit makes its way along U.S. 281 by the U.S.-Mexico border wall near San Benito, Texas. According to a statement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an agent was struck by a ... more
A border patrol agent was struck by a bullet fired from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande River on Tuesday near Brownsville, Texas.
According to a statement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agent is assigned to the Riverine Unit, which patrols the Rio Grande by boat.
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The bullet was fired from somewhere on the Mexican riverbank, according to Marcelino Medina, a spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The agent suffered a non-life threatening injury in the shooting.
The shooting is currently under investigation.
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Border Patrol Agent Shot in Texas by Gunman in Mexico, Say Feds
by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ AND BRANDON DARBY
27 Dec 2017
Brownsville, TX
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Federal authorities confirmed the shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent patrolling the waters of the Rio Grande. The shot came from the Mexican side of the river.
The shooting took place near Brownsville, Texas, when an agent patrolling the river on a boat was shot with a “small caliber” weapon that came from the river banks on the Mexican side, information released to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Border Patrol RGV Sector revealed.
The name of the agent and additional details were not released, however, USBP officials confirmed the injuries were not life-threatening. It remains unclear if the shooting suspect was apprehended. Mexico’s strict gun laws prohibit or make it very difficult for average citizens to possess most handguns, rifles or shotguns.
The shooting comes a little more than a year after, in a similar situation, Gulf Cartel gunmen shot a U.S. Border Patrol agent and a Texas State Trooper near Roma, Texas, in November 2016, Breitbart Texas reported.
Brownsville is immediately north of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, a city that is the birthplace and a stronghold for Mexico’s Gulf Cartel, a criminal organization that profits from smuggling drugs and illegal aliens through Texas into several states including Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia, and others.
In recent years the Gulf Cartel escalated violence–setting off fierce gun battles in the border cities of Reynosa, Brownsville, and surrounding communities over territorial rights. As Breitbart Texas reported, infighting has led to clandestine grave sites, shallow pits, and mass incineration methods to dispose of the corpses of victims and rivals.
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/...xico-say-feds/
