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Caribbean-Latin America
Breaking News: Mexican Teen Shot by US Border patrol
2010-06-08
Babelfish... etc. You may want to look at the El Paso Times in the morning for a fuller story
A sixteen year old Mexican teenager was shot to death by agents of the US Border patrol late Monday night, according to Mexican press reports.

Sergio Adrian Hernandez, 16, was shot by US Border patrol agents while he was still on the Mexican side of the border, according to witnesses who say they saw the shooting.
What, pray tell, what the lad doing that drove the Border Patrol to shoot across the border?
The shooting took place at about 2000 hrs beneath the Puento Negro railroad bridge over the Rio Bravo that connects Juarez with El Paso, Texas.

The youth attempted to cross into the US with two other companions when he was shot. Reports say Hernandez was hit twice in the head and once in the torso.
That's pretty good shooting, I believe. Again, what did the lad do to provoke being shot?
Police on both sides of the border are investigating.
Posted by:badanov

#8  Whitehouse: "He acted stupidly" in 3, 2, 1
Posted by: Hellfish   2010-06-08 12:17  

#7  Either way, you attack a border guard in any coutnry you get what you deserve.

Darth, where have you been living for the last 20 years?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2010-06-08 10:28  

#6  Either way, you attack a border guard in any coutnry you get what you deserve.
Posted by: DarthVader   2010-06-08 09:22  

#5  A case of hot pursuit by lead?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-06-08 08:58  

#4  typically, it's a shower of rocks, bottles, and other projectiles to deter and distract the BP agents (who usually work alone) while others sneak past the fence. The little f*ck got what he deserved if that's the case as there's been many instances where agents received head wounds or other major injuries in the assaults
Posted by: Frank G   2010-06-08 07:42  

#3  Well, to be fair, the perp probably wasn't talking much by the time they got around to interviewing him.
Posted by: AzCat   2010-06-08 07:41  

#2  "It started as an assault on a Border Patrol agent,"

Then he deserved to be shot. Interesting how the Mexican press managed to miss that key bit of information.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-06-08 07:17  

#1  You may want to look at the El Paso Times in the morning for a fuller story.

The Times says:
A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and apparently killed a man who died on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande during a confrontation Monday evening in the Downtown area.

U.S. authorities would not confirm if someone died, but Mexican news media reported a young man was dead...

"It started as an assault on a Border Patrol agent," said Special Agent Andrea Simmons, a spokeswoman for the FBI in El Paso. The FBI is the lead agency in the case because it investigates assaults on federal agents.

About 6:45 p.m., a Border Patrol agent was attacked before he fired his weapon, Simmons said.
Posted by: Angie Schultz   2010-06-08 04:03  

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