Mexico blasts fatal shooting by Border Patrol agent - El Paso Times
EL PASO - The fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Juárez boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the banks of the Rio Grande on Monday has sparked a diplomatic rift between the U.S. and Mexico.
The teenager, Sergio Adrian Hernandez Güereca, was shot in the head, Mexican officials said.
U.S. authorities said Hernandez was part of a group throwing rocks at Border Patrol agents who were trying to detain two men who had illegally crossed the border near the Paso del Norte Bridge in Downtown El Paso.
Chihuahua state police said the boy died on the Mexican side of the border from one gunshot wound to the head. A .40-caliber casing was seized by investigators.
The shooting is under investigation by the FBI and Mexican authorities.
Mexican President Felipe Calderón condemned the teen’s death and the Mexican secretary of state said the use of firearms to respond to a rock attack was a “disproportionate use of force.”
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The shooting death Monday drew strong reaction on the Mexican side.
Juárez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said such incidents cannot be tolerated.
He said authorities should review videos of the incident, which occurred at a favorite spot for smugglers.
And the governor of Chihuahua on Tuesday condemned the killing and charged that the death was due to the “xenophobic and racist conduct derived from the approval of the anti-immigrant law S.B. 1070 in Arizona.”
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