Thread: Mexican Teen Death Spurs Border Controversy

Mexican Teen Death Spurs Border Controversy

Published January 06, 2011
Fox News Latino

There are two sides to every story. And now, on each side of the politically charged border of Mexico and Arizona, there are competing allegations regarding the death of a Mexican teenager who threw rocks at Border Patrol agents in that state's city of Nogales.

A Mexican official said 17-year-old Ramsés Barrón Torres died early Wednesday after he fell from a border fence and hit his head on a rock.

But state police in Sonora, across the border from Arizona, said companions of the Barrón Torres claim he was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

Calls to Border Patrol officials weren't immediately returned Wednesday night. An FBI spokesman declined to release details of the investigation.

Alejandro Palacios, a spokesman for the neighboring Mexican city of Nogales, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that agents fired warning shots in the air after Barrón Torres and other Mexican youths had illegally crossed the border.

Palacios said the youths then threw rocks at agents but none of them were shot. He said Barrón Torres, who lived in the neighboring Mexican city, died after he landed on Mexico's side of the fence.

Sonoran police said Barrón Torres' three companions left his body outside the emergency room of the General Hospital in Nogales on the Mexico side of the border at around 3 a.m. and then left in a vehicle with tinted windows.

Before the unidentified companions left, they told hospital guards that Barrón Torres had been climbing a border wall to enter the United States when a Border Patrol agent fired a single shot that hit the teen.

The state police statement said an autopsy determined the bullet had gone through Barrón Torres' right arm and entered his chest, puncturing a lung.

While the victim's body had numerous scrapes and bruises — apparently caused by falling onto a gravel pile on the Mexican side — Sonoran police said the autopsy determined that the bullet wound was the cause of death.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

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Update from this story

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-223640.html

megyn kelly is talking about this now

Megyn said the FBI is treating this as a ABO
Assault on Border Officer

If you commit a crime and someone is injured or killed during that crime or as a result of it, you are responsible for all consequences.

Just as if two men rob a store and one is killed by the store owner, the other is responsible for murder.

If this kid died during an illegal act he himself is responsible...

Originally Posted by PaulRevere9

If you commit a crime and someone is injured or killed during that crime or as a result of it, you are responsible for all consequences.

Just as if two men rob a store and one is killed by the store owner, the other is responsible for murder.

If this kid died during an illegal act he himself is responsible...

ditto that. You'd think they'd learn from the other 15 year old mexican kid who was shot doing the same thing not too long ago. What a short memory these people have....

Get ready for all the screaming, wailing SOB story articles coming from the family.

Hey, what happened to the investigation of the BORDER PATROL AGENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MURDERERS?????

And the moral of the story is: stay on your own side of the border. You can bet good money the kids were crossing for gang/drug purposes, not to rejoin their families or to find a job.

If our defence force, "Border Patrol" shot this punk then I sure hope they say;
"yeah we shot the punk."

Any way you look at it, he died as a result of his own stupidity and recklessness. Maybe news will start to get around Mexico that the US border patrol is PO'ed and isn't F'ing around anymore.

Ted Gallager was giving a report on this on Fox a few minutes ago. The interesting part was that they brought up the incident of the 15 year old that was killed by BP near El Paso. They said that video showed that the 15 year had attacked the BP with rocks and that it turned out the 15 year old was the most wanted youth in El Paso for Drug Smuggling.