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.

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