Mexican Family Sues U.S. Over Fatal Cross-Border Shooting of Teenager Alice Brennan and Jorge Ramos - Fusion
go to original July 29, 2014

Fusion Investigates last year revealed an alarming pattern of cross-border killings. (Fusion)

A federal lawsuit to be filed in Arizona accuses the U.S. Border Patrol of civil rights violations and the wrongful death of a 16-year-old Mexican boy who was gunned down almost two years ago. Attorneys in Tucson will file the lawsuit on behalf of the family of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, who was shot in the back at least 10 times, allegedly by Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agents, as he walked down the street in October 2012.

This is the second such suit to be filed against the U.S. government. Earlier this month, a federal appeals court ruled in a separate case that the family of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca has the constitutional right to sue the U.S. agent who killed the 15-year-old in Juarez, Mexico, in 2010. Hernandez Guereca died after he was shot in the face when he poked his head out from behind a train trestle near the border, according to the ruling. He was reportedly playing a game where he and friends would tag the border fence, according to the court document.

The ruling may help determine whether the family of someone killed by U.S. agents in foreign border regions contiguous to the United States has the right to sue in U.S. courts. More specifically, the case may also force the Department of Homeland Security to release the names of border agents involved in Rodriguez's death.

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