Mexican Forensic team investigates the murder of 15 year old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Güereca, murdered by a Border Patrol agent who shot into Mexico [Photo - Arizona Republic
Border patrol agents routinely claim to be assaulted by “rocks” to justify shooting Mexican nationals along the border. Witness testimony seems to indicate this is the case here.
An updated report from the EL PASO TIMES recounts the witness testimony;
Bobbie McDow, 53, said she witnessed the shooting while walking across the Paso del Norte Bridge. She said she had stopped to look down and to view a group of young men try to cross the border.
Border Patrol agents arrived and detained two men, but the others scampered back into Mexico, she said.
McDow, a U.S. citizen, said she saw one young man make a throwing motion before the agent opened fire.
“At first, I didn’t think anyone was hit. I thought he had missed,” she said. “As I was looking down there, I saw something lying by the Black Bridge, then I realized the body was not moving and I got very upset.”
McDow said she called 911 in El Paso and has since spoken with the FBI.
She said the man who made the throwing motion was not the one who was shot.
She said the man who was shot was on the Mexican side of the border.
“Where he was clearly on the Mexican side when he got shot,” she said.
“I never expected it to escalate like that. I never saw that coming, that there would be a shooting over this,” she said. “I’m not saying they (the teens) did the right thing, but kids are kids. It’s like a little game of cat and mouse.”
So it appears an innocent boy was shot, who was inside his own country. Well, maybe not so innocent. It seems more and more, being a Mexican in the world is a crime within itself!
His father, Jesus Hernandez, described his youngest son as a student who was just hanging out on the river but not part of a group that had crossed illegally into the U.S. and was pelting Border Patrol agents with rocks.
“He shouldn’t have gotten close to those cowards – what this dog did – shoot into Mexico,” Jesus Hernandez said before breaking down crying during a telephone interview.
Jesus Hernandez said he asked the forensic office in Juárez to do a drug test on his son to prove he didn’t use drugs.
“He had a clean body, not even tattoos,” his father said while sobbing. “He wasn’t a troublemaker. He didn’t have vices.”
The agent, who has not been identified, was armed with the standard .40 caliber service weapon and was said to be in possession of several other weapons in addition to pepper spray. He has been placed on paid leave while investigators figure out a way to blame the child or otherwise make it all go away.
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