Six people are in custody who might be linked to the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent last month
Six people are in custody who might be linked to the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent last month near Nogales, U.S. marshals say.
The Border Patrol arrested four illegal immigrants on Dec. 14, the night agent Brian Terry was fatally shot northwest of Nogales, including one who was hospitalized.
The next day, Border Patrol officials brought in two more men who they say might be connected to the shooting, said Ray Kondo, assistant chief of the U.S. marshals in Tucson.
“They could be involved; they could be witnesses. Who knows?” Kondo said. “We are not privy to that. They just told us they may be linked. How they are linked, I can’t tell you.”
All six men have made initial appearances in federal court, he said. They have been charged only with immigration offenses so far. The last one made his appearance on Tuesday after not being well enough to go to court until then.
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