Thread: Ceremonies Friday to honor border agents killed | Edward Rojas Jr., Hector Clark

Ceremonies Friday to honor border agents killed by train

10:57 am

Web Producer: Marissa Pasquet

YUMA, Ariz. (KGUN9-TV) - The Border Patrol's Yuma sector will hold a wreath-laying ceremony to remember two agents killed in a train crash in May.

The ceremony for agents Hector Clark and Eduardo Rojas will take place Friday morning outside the Yuma sector's headquarters in southeastern Arizona.

Relatives of Clark and Rojas will lay wreaths at the base of a monument to honor their deaths. The families will then go to the site of the crash to establish a permanent cross to mark the tragedy.

The site is a railroad crossing in a rural farming area near the town of Gila Bend, about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southwest of Phoenix.

Clark and Rojas were nearing the end of an overnight search for drug smugglers when a 4,600-ton train smashed into their vehicle on May 12.

Details from an investigation report that the agents likely confused the moving train with a stopped train before turning in front of the locomotive and that Clark could have momentarily been blinded by the sun.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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