Thread: Border Agents Home Invaded----Shots Fired

Originally Posted by ArizonaPatriot

DEFINETELY was NOT last nite

I spent a week at the muster in Benson, and when that was over, went over to my curent locale for a few days... I am on a ranch and in no real danger accoding to the person here because they DONT want violence hee... Afraid the govt WILL close down the border, at least in my curent location

Dinner time !!! BBL

I'd sleep with one eye open just in case some of the drug and human smuggling cartels don't know the rules.

Stay safe.

Why is a home invasion being investigated by the border patrol?

Border Patrol Agent is the mans profession. His home is certainly not a work site. The Border Patrol should be supportive of the trauma he suffered being targeted in his own home. Other than that, they need to back off.

If he used the firearm he uses on the job, so what? Don't they have to purchase their own weapons and ammunition? If not, he can pay for the ammunition discharged. I'll pay for the ammunition discharged. My God, what stupidity!

As for the police investigation, it had better be concerned with finding the people who invaded his home. How about more police patrols and a real effort to get the shooters?

Not even a sanctuary city/state can keep an individual from using equal force to defend themselves. Since it was 4 to 1, the agent should get an automatic with greater fire power than his sidearm.

1 Paint. You don't understand. The Home Invasion is being investigated by Tucson Police. The appropriateness of the actions taken by this officer in his own home is being investigated by the Border Patrol. He used his issued weapon to fire on these jerks. All law enforcement agencies go over their officers with fine tooth combs after they've been involved in any kind of shooting to determine if it was a "good shoot" or if they committed a crime themselves.

This article was "buried" in the AZ Repulsive......If I wasn't looking for another article------I woud have NEVER found it!!

Police identify two men in home invasion of Border Patrol agent

Associated Press
Dec. 10, 2007 04:45 PM

"TUCSON - Tucson police say they've arrested one man and found another dead following the home invasion of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

The agent was unharmed in the invasion Sunday morning. He told police that four armed intruders forced their way into his house.

The intruders fled as the agent fired at them with his service weapon.

Monday morning, police say they found the charred remains of the SUV that the intruders allegedly drove away in.

They also found one of the suspects in the case - 20-year-old Cristian Gomez - dead from a gunshot wound.

Police later arrested 19-year-old Mark Escobar Jr. in connection with the invasion.

Escobar was booked on suspicion of first degree murder."

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... 10-ON.html

Tucson Region
Invader at home of U.S. agent found dead
By Dale Quinn
arizona daily star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 12.11.2007

"A man found dead on the South Side Sunday morning was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent after he and three other armed intruders burst into the agent's house, an official said Monday.

Christian Gomez, 20, and Mark A. Escobar Jr., 19, along with two other intruders burst into the home of an off-duty Border Patrol agent and his family about 4:50 a.m. Sunday, according to police.

One of the intruders shot at the agent when he confronted them. The agent returned fire with his service weapon, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.

"You can only imagine what that kind of experience would be like" with armed intruders bursting into a home and awakening a sleeping family, Pacheco said. "It's kind of reasonable to expect he would want to defend himself and his family."

The suspects fled the area in a Kia sport utility vehicle and the agent called 911, Pacheco said. Police did not release the name of the Border Patrol agent.

Several hours after the home invasion, Tucson police found a man's body in the desert south of East Irvington Road and South First Avenue. The man, identified later as Gomez, had been shot to death, Pacheco said.
Through investigation, detectives learned that Gomez, of Tucson, had participated in the home invasion and had been shot by the agent, Pacheco said.

Before finding Gomez's body, at 7:19 a.m., a Tucson police officer saw smoke near Campbell Avenue and East Virginia Street, according to police. When the officer went to investigate he found the Kia SUV engulfed in flames, Pacheco said. When the fire was extinguished, police found bullet holes in the vehicle.

Using information from the various scenes, investigators learned that Escobar had been involved in the home invasion and that he was the driver of the Kia SUV.

He was booked into Pima County jail on suspicion of first-degree murder under the felony murder rule, which allows suspects to be charged with murder if someone gets killed during the commission of a felony, Pacheco said.

Escobar, from Tucson, was also booked on suspicion of first-degree burglary, arson of an occupied structure, attempted armed robbery and attempted aggravated robbery, according to jail records. He is being held on $500,000 bail for the first-degree murder charge.

Detectives don't know exactly why the armed intruders burst into the Border Patrol agent's house, Pacheco said. It doesn't appear that his home was targeted for any specific reason, he said. Intruders will target homes with the goal of obtaining drugs or money, Pacheco said. Detectives are still working to determine what motivated the invasion, he said.

The Border Patrol is conducting its own investigation into the agent's use of deadly force, said Jesús Rodriguez, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman.

"We want to make sure the use of force was handled properly," Rodriguez said. It's standard procedure for the Border Patrol to review any situation when an agent — on-duty or off-duty — discharges his weapon at a person, he said.

As for whether or not Border Patrol agents will be advised to take extra precautions as a result of the incident, Rodriguez said, agents — along with all law enforcement officers — need to take extra caution whenever they go about their daily lives.

The agent is a dog handler with a take-home vehicle, according to a posting about the incident on the Web site for the Border Patrol agents union. The Web site says any agent with a take-home vehicle or one who wears a uniform shirt should take extra care at home, as the suspects may have targeted the agent.

Rodriguez couldn't immediately confirm that the agent was a dog handler or if he had a take-home vehicle. He did not release the agent's name because of security and privacy issues.

Tucson Police Department homicide detectives will hand over the results of their investigation to the Pima County Attorney's Office, which will decide whether or not the agent will face criminal charges or if Escobar will face additional charges.

Police are continuing to look for any additional suspects involved in the home invasion, Pacheco said. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME, the anonymous tip line of the Pima County Attorney's Office."

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/215678

If the BP Agent had a clearly marked vehicle at home saying Border Patrol----he was INTENTIONALLY targeted.

That would be like someone deciding to break into a house with a police car parked in the driveway!!

It is sad that someone that young had to get himself killed.

It is great that the man was able to defend his home. I hope he does all right with all that is happening to him. So far things look okay from here.

Hope this agent isn't given a prison term for defending himself against criminals.

Once again... It all goes back to Bush, Chertoff and all of the other politicians that pander to the Illegal Immigration Hoard. It's time for the trials to begin

Thank God the BP agent was armed or he too would have suffered the same fate as the Mexico sheriff last week.