Video shows border shooting scene

The Mexican government is requesting a quick and transparent investigation into the fatal shooting by a U.S. Border Patrol agent of a Mexican teen in Ciudad Juarez on Monday night, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
The teen was shot during a rock-throwing incident, Mexican and U.S. officials said.
Mexico "reiterates that the use of firearms to repel a rock attack represents a disproportionate use of force, particularly coming from authorities who receive specialized training on the matter," the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday in a news release.
The teen's death was the second at the hands of U.S. border authorities in less than two weeks.
Monday night's incident started around 6:30 p.m. when Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agents responded to a report of a group of suspected illegal immigrants being smuggled into the United States near the Paso del Norte port of entry, FBI Special Agent Andrea Simmons said.
A suspect identified as Oscar Ivan Pineda Ayala was initially detained on the Rio Grande levee, said the FBI, which is leading the investigation.
"Another agent arrived on his bicycle along the cement apron that forms the riverbank on the U.S. side," Simmons said in a release. "That agent detained a second subject, Augustin Alcaraz Reyes, but other subjects ran into Mexico and began to throw rocks at the agent.
"This agent, who had the second subject detained on the ground, gave verbal commands to the remaining subjects to stop and retreat," Simmons said. "However, the subjects surrounded the agent and continued to throw rocks at him. The agent then fired his service weapon several times, striking one subject who later died."
Simmons told CNN earlier that she did not know whether the person who was shot was on the Mexican or U.S. side of the border, but that the agent never left U.S. territory.
The body was found on the Mexican side of the border, Simmons said.
The attorney general's office in Chihuahua identified the dead 14-year-old boy as secondary student Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca.
Belmonte said Hernandez had been shot in the head.
"The young man was not armed," Ciudad Juarez spokesman Sergio Belmonte said. "He did not have the physical size to threaten anyone. The aggression (by the U.S. agent) is evident."
The shooting occurred underneath the Black Bridge, a railroad span that connects the two countries, the Mexican official said.
The FBI said the "area where this incident occurred is a known high-risk crime area where rocks are regularly thrown at Border Patrol agents and where other assaults have been reported."
The FBI, which has jurisdiction in any assault on a federal officer, is leading the U.S. investigation with assistance from the El Paso Police Department, the Border Patrol and other federal agencies, Simmons said.
The shooting comes less than two weeks after the May 31 death of a Mexican illegal immigrant who had been detained three days earlier by border agents in California.
San Diego police, who are investigating the death of Anastasio Hernandez, said he was beaten with a baton and shot with a stun gun after he became combative. California medical officials ruled his death a homicide.
The investigation in that case continues.
Mexican officials complained Tuesday that they see an increasing trend.
"The growing frequency of this type of event reflects a worrisome increment in the use of excessive force on the part of some border authorities," the Foreign Ministry said.
According to the ministry, the number of Mexicans who have been killed or wounded by U.S. border authorities has increased from five in 2008 to 12 in 2009 and 17 so far this year.
Mark Qualia, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said he could not comment because he does not know where the Mexican government obtained its statistics.
But Qualia said there were 799 assaults on border agents from October 1, 2009, through May 31, up from 745 assaults for the same time period in 2007-08 and 658 for the same span in 2008-09.
Lethal force, he said, is allowed "when an agent is in imminent threat of physical or bodily harm, which could cause death or injury or in protection of an innocent third party."
The determination of when to use lethal force, Qualia said, is made by each individual agent at the scene.
From October 1 through May 31, he said, Custom and Border Protection agents have used their firearms 31 times.
Rock-throwing can be considered a dangerous assault, Qualia said: "They're not chunking pebbles."

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[legendof]

It makes me sad to be a young white male from California and read these racist comments. Sure, illegal Mexicans cross the border, but is it a larger threat than foreigners who come here legally on a VISA and commit medical fraud, tax evasion, insurance fraud and international crime? legal Armenians and criminal Europeans, have cost the medical industry 60 billion in fraudulent claims. It isn't illegality that is the issue, it's honesty and an honest person has more right than a dishonest person.

[TheCrew34]

@ricadrew This is Fucken old af but for one i aint racist for shit if anything your the racist punk over here say all this shit all im trying to say here that everyone is the same no matter what skin color you are but guess what american feel the need to say that whites are better then whites/brown

[sscolblaze3319]

DAMN! lol

[MARTYRxDEFILED]

Poor kid

[LiveFreeOrDie1985]

@DocTomoe812 So is comming in illegaly into the US. Its called invasion and is also an act of war.

They have very right to defend there borders from illegals crossing just as I have a right to shoot an invader in my house if they dont leave. Truth is they wouldnt do it because it wouldnt look good in the eyes of the media.

However mexicans crossing the border illegally is just as much an act of war as a border patrol shooting one.

[hotrodfast68]

shoot them all.start shooting those border hopping spics and they will stop trying to come here.send a message and if they dont get the message keep shooting them.no real loss anyway most people can mow their own yards.mexicans are a disease and need to be treated like a virus and exterminated.

[DocTomoe812]

@alvinfry Firing a weapon on a target in another country is internationally considered an act of war.

[blueshiftchess]

my only disappointment in this story is the fact that only 1 got dropped in the incident. id have burned that place to the ground..

[olvvvvlo]

@dayzey40 You know nothing, you dont even know what is going on in your neighbourhood and you try to talk about global problems. If ts cheap labor of course you dont get cuality, but even for the price that they pay its pretty good quality, they are recieven golod and paying tinfoil

[dayzey40]

@olvvvvlo, It's "LEVI Jeans" and the only reason they are down there is because of cheap labor...you have no idea what you talking about...When everything was being "Made in USA", things where made better...now that everything is made in a third world country everything is falls apart and doesn't last or isn't good quality, thats why "LEVI Jeans is cheaply made now...their not "Made in USA". CHEAP LABOR, thats why all the companies are going to Mexico and all those third world countries.

[alvinfry]

Not much to investigate here, Sergio was throwing rocks at the Agent who had someone in custody after trying to illegally cross the border. Border Patrol policy allows for use of deadly force against rock attacks if the Agent fears for the safety of himself or another person.

[jbarah05]

that's in case you didn't (did not) know that because you added that e i think it cus you couldn't(could not) know that it supposedly shorten so you do not have to put the whole two words i hope that helps cus i wouldn't(would not) know if it did cus you would have to let me know thank you :-)

[jbarah05]

@jbarah05 place i had to cut it of

[jbarah05]

@NickyAmerica it funny that u just attacked how i said it instead of wat i said how about bring something other than i "couldent" or couldn't spell that word and really have the balls to state ur opinion or try to destroy my argument if my opinion doesnt sit well then say something use ur head please before u post again cus what happen was serious and all u did is try to correct a correctly spelled word and really did misspelled a word couldent is supposedly be spelled couldn't for could not

[NickyAmerica]

@jbarah05

Funny how you just called our opinion "Ignorant" when you coulden't even spell the words in that little rant.

[NickyAmerica]

@whisperingpaddle

Yeah, Shame on us for being a shining beacon for the world, Like the mexicans are completely without sin, Like Gaza is without sin.

[jbarah05]

Wat really happened here is that politics played a role on dramatizing it especial mexican leaders in trying to blind the Mexican people from there losing effort against the cartels watch the Mexican officials talk there grew a pair all sudden y don't they say the same thing about the cartels and if u live by here u know the answer there has been more kids shot from cartel hits then this one agent really assholes look it up look up the 2 to 9 yr olds on the street playing in there neighbor hood

[jbarah05]

Look half of these comment r ignorant hicks or peope talking out of there ass local pd cops cannot relate cus it a whole different ball game for federal and border patrol look I live in el paso and use to go to j town all the time before I almost got car jacked a week back from overseas look on this side of the border and especial right now cartels recruit kids from all ages to spy or create distractions to run dope or illegals and really ask Ur self what where they doing there in the first pla

[poopmonkey48]

@ImmaculateSludge damn right

[poopmonkey48]

@whisperingpaddle you are ignorant

[ImmaculateSludge]

Teen committed assault with a deadly weapon and was justifiably shot... it's sad but he shouldn't have thrown the rocks. If he hadn't... he'd still be alive.

[dalvarez00]

@TheCrew34 I LIVED JUST A FEW MILES FROM WER THE BOY WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON THE MEXICAN SIDE UP UNTILL I WAS 7 YEARS OLD ALSO WHEN MY FAMILY JUMPED THE BORDER WEEKLY I WAS NOT AN EXCEPTION I HAD TO FOLLOW THEM ACROSS THE DESSERT DONT SPEAK BEFORE YOU KNOW THE WHOLE STORY IGNORANT PUNK I KNOW JUAREZ AND BIG MOUTH BITCHES LIKE YOU ARE USUALLY DICAPITATED N THROW IN THE DESSERT SO SHUT YOUR MOUTH BOY