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 News from Around the Americas | January 2007 
FBI Probes Fatal Ariz. Border Shooting
 Associated Press
| | Don Pauly of the Emigration Party of Nevada holds a sign and an Arizona flag while protesting illegal immigration outside the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix, Arizona, December 16, 2006. The founder of the Emigration Party of Nevada is among a growing number of nativists from across the United States that have been stepping up direct action in recent months to make a stand on the issues of illegal immigration and border security. (Reuters/Jeff Topping) |
The FBI said Monday it was investigating the shooting death of a Mexican immigrant by a U.S. Border Patrol agent that had been criticized by Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera, 22, of Puebla, Mexico, was killed Friday in a confrontation with the unidentified agent north of the U.S.-Mexico border between Bisbee and Douglas.
On Sunday, Calderon expressed his "most energetic protest" against the shooting.
A group of seven people were crossing the desert and the agent took six of them into custody without incident, authorities said.
But the agent and Dominguez-Rivera began fighting, authorities said. The agent, who believed his life was in danger, shot and killed the man, the Border Patrol said previously. An autopsy was scheduled Wednesday.
The agent was put on paid administrative leave pending the investigation.
FBI spokeswoman Deborah McCarley and Gustavo Soto, a spokesman with the U.S. Border Patrol Tucson sector, both declined Monday to provide details of the case. |
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