US Border Patrol says agents who killed man in Arizona were answering report of gunfire
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U.S. Border Patrol agents answering reports of gunfire shot and killed a man on a tribal reservation in southern Arizona after he abruptly threw something and raised his arm, the agency said Monday.
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Border Patrol agents shoot tribal member dead in southern Arizona
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US Border Patrol says agents who killed man in Arizona were answering report of gunfire
One report says the man's family is demanding that the Border Patrol explain why it happened. The FBI and Tohono O'odham Nation police are investigating.
Tohono O’odham Nation member Raymond Mattia called Border Patrol because he wanted help getting multiple migrants who trespassed into his yard off of his property, a family member said.
Prior to the shooting, the victim reportedly called Border Patrol because there were multiple migrants who had trespassed into his yard, and he wanted assistance getting them out of his property.
The FBI and tribal police are investigating an incident where U.S. Border Patrol agents fatally shot a tribal member on the Tohono O’odham Nation reservation in southern Arizona.
U.S. Border Patrol agents answering reports of gunfire shot and killed a man on a tribal reservation in southern Arizona after he abruptly threw something and raised his arm, the agency said Monday.
U.S. Border Patrol agents were answering to reports of gunfire when they fatally shot a tribal man outside a home on the Tohono O’odham reservation in southern Arizona.
The man threw some kind of object toward the officer that landed a few feet away and then “abruptly extended his right arm away from his body and three agents fired their service weapons, striking the individual several times," U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement.
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