Anger Rising in Valeria Alvarado Shooting Death By Border Patrol Agent

[OldDem2012]

29. The first question I'd like to see answered is....

...whether or not the plain-clothes Border Patrol agent clearly and completely identified himself to Alvarado. She may have panicked thinking he was trying to rob her.

The second question is whether or not the forensic evidence indicates the agent's firearm was discharged within a few inches of the windshield which would be the case if the agent was on the hood as he claimed.

The angle of the fatal shots through the windshield into Alvarado's body should also be able to tell us at what angle the firearm was discharged. The higher the angle, the more likely the agent was on the hood. The lower the angle, the more likely the agent was standing at some distance from the front of the car.

I'm also concerned with the wide radius of the shots into the windshield. It would stand to reason that someone on the hood would have placed more shots into a much smaller radius centered on where the driver actually sat.

Additionally, the forensics should be able to tell us how close the agent was to the windshield by the amount of glass particles, however minute, found on his clothing and/or on his body. Hopefully, they collected his clothing and checked his body for glass particles before he was able to go home and wash them.