.Mexico says U.S. border agent killed teenage boy

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

.Mexico says U.S. border agent killed teenage boy
By Alonso Castillo Alonso Castillo – 1 hr 55 mins ago

NOGALES, Mexico, Jan 5 – A U.S. Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting on the Arizona border with Mexico on Wednesday that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old boy trying to illegally scale the border fence, Mexican police said.

Ramses Barron was found dead outside a hospital in Nogales, Sonora, in the early hours on Wednesday with a wound from a bullet fired by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, Sonora state police said citing witnesses. Three men left Barron's body at the hospital, hospital workers told police.

Barron, a Mexican, attempted to cross the tall fence between Nogales and its sister city in Arizona of the same name under cover of night, police said in a statement.

"At that moment (as he was climbing the fence), a United States Border Patrol agent shot at him, sending him falling onto gravel on the Mexican side," the statement said.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110106/us_nm/us_usa_mexico_shooting

[EFerrari]

1. 17 years old. n/t

[Rage for Order]

11. So were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. n/t

[Hugabear]

2. This agent needs to be prosecuted for murder

That's what this is, cold-blooded murder, plain and simple. There's no other explanation for shooting a teenage kid while climbing a fence.

[rhett o rick]

6. And what country do you think you live in? Murder by police happens daily here. nm

[Gman]

3. But.... but.. but... they investigated and found nothing improper

blah blah blah

[rhett o rick]

7. Nothing improper. The gun worked as designed. The police worked as trained. The system

investigated and found nothing as designed. Everything is good.

[Gman]

10. Reminds me of the pat answers from the Gestapo

or the KGB. "What? There is no problem. Why do you think there is a problem?"

[Kali]

4. damn

there MUST be more to it

I have seen BP doing some shitty things but just shooting at somebody coming over???:wtf:

[Lasher]

8. There is more to it.

From the article linked in the OP:

"Border Patrol agents were attempting to arrest alleged drug smugglers. ...when bystanders began to throw rocks" at them, (FBI special agent Manuel) Johnson said. "A Border Patrol agent responded by firing a shot at an alleged rock thrower."

The June shooting of a Mexican teenager was mentioned in the article. However, a US Border Patrol agent was killed three weeks ago in this same area and that was not mentioned.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Remember the 15-year-old boy shot and killed last June?

Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca, the 15-year-old Juárez boy, was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a rock-throwing confrontation along the Rio Grande last June.

A couple of links:

FBI Probes Fatal Shooting at Mexican Border
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704256604575294950172855306.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Video Undercuts Border Agent's Self-Defense Claim
http://www.newser.com/story/92039/video-undercuts-border-agents-self-defense-claim.html

[COLGATE4]

9. Hell of a price to pay for trying for a better life. Damn.

[lonestarnot]

12. And who is to say that he wasn't in fear of his life from drug cartels in Mexico. Don't we

allow immigration in those kinds of cases w/o killing people, especially kids?