Border agent shoots and kills 14-year-old boy on US side of international bridge: report

Border agent shoots and kills 14-year-old boy on US side of international bridge: report

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It started as an assault on a Border Patrol agent," said Special Agent Andrea Simmons, a spokeswoman for the FBI in El Paso. The FBI is the lead agency in the case because it investigates assaults on federal agents.

About 6:45 p.m., a Border Patrol agent was attacked before he fired his weapon, Simmons said.

Simmons said it had not been determined how many agents were involved in the confrontation nor how many attackers and whether they were armed or not.

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Hear is something else that is just dandy to add to everything else that is happening in the world. There has been some level of border violence going on for a long time. Some worse then others. This is one of the times when a shooting is actually being reported. Since the fatality happened on the southern side of the border, the Mexican media is all over it. I don't know how it will play out, but I think it will still show the need for border security.

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