http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/9766608/detail.html

Also see the following discussion.

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=39161

Border Shooting Sparks International Incident
Mexican Officials Call For Complete Investigation

POSTED: 8:45 pm PDT August 30, 2006
UPDATED: 8:56 pm PDT August 30, 2006

SAN DIEGO -- The alleged shooting death of a Mexican citizen by a Border Patrol agent is becoming an international incident.

The Mexican Consulate in San Diego has called for a complete investigation of the shooting, which happened late Saturday near Yuma, Ariz., and was sparked by a rock-throwing incident.

During a patrol chase on the U.S. side of the border near Yuma, a Mexican driver fled and ended up in a pond near the Colorado River. When he began to flail, border agents tried to rescue him and that's when officials say someone started throwing rocks from the Mexican side of the border, hitting one agent in the head.

A shot was then fired, hitting the rock-wielding suspect.

Now Mexican Consul General Luis Cabrera is demanding to know why the incident happened but Chief Ronald Colburn, who heads the Yuma Sector Border Patrol, said it was just one of five separate assaults on agents that night alone.

"I consider all of them sons and daughters, nephews and nieces so it truly worries me about them. They're the ones who are in fact placing themselves in harm's way," Colburn said.

But Cabrera said an investigation is needed to see if rock throwing justifies killing someone.

"It's important to have a full investigation now about how the incident occurred. But, in any case, I think it's difficult to justify the killing of someone who was throwing rocks. Maybe. Whatever. But the answer was maybe too much, no? To kill someone who was throwing rocks, that's the response. Are there no other means?" Cabrera said.