Border Patrol Lied About Killing Mother of 5

[Vashta Nerada]

Witness accounts contradict official story
http://www.cbs8.com/story/19669131/deputy-involved-shooting-in-chula-vista

SAN DIEGO - An autopsy was pending Saturday on a mother of five shot to death by a Border Patrol agent in Chula Vista.

Valeria "Monique" Alvarado, 32, who grew up in the area and lived in Southcrest, allegedly ran into a Border Patrol agent with her car and was fatally shot through the windshield about 1 p.m. Friday on Moss Street near Oaklawn Avenue, according to federal agents, Chula Vista police and broadcast reports.

Border Patrol Deputy Chief Rodney Scott said the agent was in the area to serve a warrant. He apparently was not in uniform.
The agent was "carried several hundred yards on the hood" of the Honda Alvarado was driving, then he opened fire, "fearing for his life," Scott said.
Alvarado family members told the U-T San Diego the woman had five children, 3-17 years old.

"Where's the evidence my wife threatened a trained officer?" asked her husband, Gilbert Alvarado.
Hector Salazar, who lives nearby, told the U-T he was standing at his mailbox when he heard a man yell, "Stop!" He said he saw a man jump on the hood of a two-door car, aiming a gun at the windshield. He said heard five shots.

Eduardo Comacho, 22, said he was walking on Woodlawn Avenue with a friend. He told the U-T they heard about seven shots. He said he saw a man in a red shirt, without a badge, holding his gun. He appeared shaken. Other undercover officers joined him, pulling out their badges as they walked.

Comacho could see what appeared to be bullet wounds in her chest, shoulder, arm and leg.
"He did not miss," Comacho told the newspaper.

Ayanna Evans, 19, who lives in a nearby apartment building, said she never saw the agent on the car. She said she happened to look out the window and saw the Honda backing up slowly, and a man in a red shirt walking toward the car.

"Then I heard, `Pop, pop, pop,'" she told the U-T.

Another resident of the same building, Prince Watson, told the newspaper he also saw the Honda going backward, with no one on it.
"She wasn't speeding or driving erratic at all. I heard the agent say, 'Stop.' He was in the street and started shooting and walking toward the car," Watson told the U-T.

Border Patrol agents would not say who they were looking to arrest when the shooting happened.

Christian Ramirez of the Southern Border Community Coalition to the U-T the shooting was "troubling," in part because Alvarado was not wanted by law enforcement authorities and was a U.S. citizen.
The U.S. Inspector General's Office will review the investigation being done by Border Patrol agents and Chula Vista police.

"The officer never got struck by the vehicle," said Prince Watson, who told News 8 he saw the encounter. "The vehicle was actually moving in reverse."

Alvarado's family members say they are demanding answers.
"I want justice!" shouted Alvarado's husband, Gilbert Alvarado. "Whoever shot my wife... he needs to get shot. He needs to get justice served."

Medics took the agent to a hospital. Scott said he did not know the extent of his injuries. "But he was impacted by a vehicle pretty hard," the spokesman added.

Alvarado was not the subject of the warrant, Scott told news crews. That suspect remained at large in the late afternoon, he said.

Area resident Hector Salazar told NBC 7 San Diego he was reading his mail in his home when the deadly shooting occurred a short distance away.
"I just saw an agent with a gun walking toward the car and yelling," he said.

[patric]

Little more than a week later, they were shooting at each other.
Maybe the "shoot first, ask questions later" isnt working so good?

Border Patrol Agent Died as Result of 'Friendly Fire,' Officials Say

Nicholas Ivie, 30, a six-year border patrol veteran, was patrolling an area of Southern Arizona near Naco at about 1:30 a.m. last Tuesday and went to investigate a tripped border sensor. Officials believe he may have come across another group of agents who were doing the same.

George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing border patrol agents, told the Associated Press that Ivie may have fired several shots, while the other agents returned fire, killing him. "I don't know what it was he saw or heard that triggered this whole event," McCubbin said.
On Thursday, two men were reportedly arrested in connection with Ivie's death; now, based on the official statements, it seems unlikely that there was any link between those arrests and the Border Patrol incident.

[Vashta Nerada]

Local police have confirmed that one person is dead after a Border Patrol agent fired his gun at a crowd throwing rocks across the border fence in Nogales, Arizona late last night, and Mexican media reports say the deceased is a 14-year-old boy.

Mexican Mayor Says Boy Shot by US Agent 7 Times

By BRIAN SKOLOFF Associated Press
PHOENIX October 13, 2012 (AP)

A teenage boy apparently killed this week by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was hit seven times by gunfire and died on a sidewalk just across the Arizona-Mexico border, a mayor in Mexico said Friday.

"It was a burst of gunfire," Nogales Mayor Ramon Guzman Munoz told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "It was a hail of bullets."
Munoz called the episode "deplorable" and urged a thorough investigation by both U.S. and Mexican authorities.
Meanwhile, the Border Patrol had not yet confirmed anyone was struck by the agent's bullets, only that "it appeared someone had been hit," agency spokesman Victor Brabble said Friday.

A Mexican official with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed the boy was shot by the agent, and said authorities were meeting Friday in Mexico City to discuss the case. The person also said the teenager had been shot multiple times in the back. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not yet authorized to discuss details of the case.

Mexico's Foreign Relations Department issued a statement Thursday saying it "forcefully condemned" the shooting and calling such deaths "a serious bilateral problem."
Border agents are generally allowed to use lethal force against rock throwers, and there are several ongoing investigations into similar shootings in Arizona and Texas.