Thread: Mexican teen dies in fall after rock-throwing incident

Mexican teen dies in fall after rock-throwing incident on Ariz.-Mexico border

Associated Press
Posted: 01/05/2011 03:36:25 PM MST

NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) - A 17-year-old Mexican died Wednesday after he fell and hit his head on a rock while fleeing from U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Arizona border city of Nogales.

Alejandro Palacios, a spokesman for the neighboring Mexican city of Nogales, says Border Patrol agents fired warning shots in the air after the boy and other Mexican youths had illegally crossed the border.

Palacios says the youths responded by throwing rocks at agents. He says none of the youths had been shot.

The 17-year-old's identity hasn't been released.

FBI spokesman Manuel Johnson declined to release details of the investigation, but says the agency's agents are at the scene.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_17017357

Thats what you get when you bring rocks to a gun fight

Don't look for sympathy with me , you will get none

Isn't "rocking" actually "stoning"????

Originally Posted by American-ized

Isn't "rocking" actually "stoning"????

Same thing. It's just that the border patrol uses "rocking" in it's press releases.

U.S. BORDER PATROL Weekly Blotter: (12/30/2010)

Border Patrol agents seized over 2,717 pounds of marijuana and 462 pounds of heroin. Agents arrested 5 criminal aliens and 2 gang members. There were 5 rocking incidents . . .

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-223156-blotter.html

[quote="Justthefacts"]

Thats what you get when you bring rocks to a gun fight

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well don't feel sorry for you . no one care about the 3 American that was kill . & they was not runing from the Border Patrol they was on Vacation & they got shot ,

He died on a rock. Justice was served.

Mexican teen dies after AZ rock-throwing incident

Associated Press - January 5, 2011 8:14 PM ET

NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) - A Mexican teenager who threw rocks at Border Patrol agents in the Arizona city of Nogales is dead, but his manner of death is now in dispute.

A Mexican official says 17-year-old Ramses Barron 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, say companions of the teen claim he was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

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

http://www.kgun9.com/global/story.asp?s=13791404

Thank God our Border Patrol agents were not harmed in this attack upon them!

Mexico says U.S. border agent killed Mexican teenager

NOGALES, Mexico, Jan 5 – A U.S. Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting on the Arizona border with Mexico on Wednesday that resulted in the death of a teenage boy trying to cross illegally into the United States, Mexican police said.

Ramses Barron, 17, was found dead outside a hospital in Nogales, Sonora, in the early hours of Wednesday with a wound from a bullet fired by the Border Patrol agent, Sonora state police said citing witnesses.

Three men left Barron's body at the hospital, hospital workers told police.

Barron, a Mexican, tried to scale the tall border fence between Nogales and its sister city in Arizona with the same name under the cover of night, police said in a statement.

"At that moment (as he was climbing the fence), a United States Border Patrol agent shot at him, sending him falling onto gravel on the Mexican side," the statement said.

Tucson sector Border Patrol spokesman David Jimarez said an agent was involved in an early morning incident near the fence but said events were still unclear.

"There was an agent involved in a shooting in Nogales, Arizona, although the details are very sketchy. We are not aware of the injuries involved in the incident," he said.

Jimarez said the FBI was leading the investigation. A call placed to the agency was not immediately returned.

Frustrated by tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigrants and drug traffickers regularly pelt U.S. agents with rocks, take shots and even throw gasoline bombs.

Border Patrol agents are wary of using their weapons as shootings of illegal immigrants have raised tensions between the United States and Mexico in the past.

In June, the fatal shooting of a Mexican teenager by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, provoked anger in Mexico and the Mexican government sent a formal complaint to Washington, demanding answers.

Mexicans are sensitive about the border since U.S. authorities built a 650-mile (1,046-km) border fence between 2006 and 2010 to prevent illegal immigration. Many Americans feel equally passionate that Border Patrol agents should be able to defend themselves, especially as raging violence from Mexico's drug war makes the border a very dangerous place.

Up to 500 people die every year crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, according to U.S. immigration experts and the Mexican government, a sharp jump from a decade ago.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110106/us_ ... shooting_1

An interesting tidbit that a local reporter said tonight that no article has stated is that this incident occurred at three in the morning.