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Almost 400 law enforcement officers, including 150 U.S. Border Patrol agents and 91 Texas DPS officers, came to Uvalde during the shooting. [208] Before tactical units arrived, police officers inside the school, who numbered at least 19, made "no effort" to breach the room where Ramos was located, according to the Texas Department of Public ...
Esequiel Hernández Jr. (May 14, 1979 – May 20, 1997) was an 18-year-old American high school student killed on May 20, 1997, by United States Marines in Redford, Texas, located approximately one mile from the United States–Mexico border. [1]
Former U.S. Border Patrol Agent Jose Compean December 2020 pardon granted by Donald Trump. José Alonso Compeán (born 1976) is a former United States Border Patrol Agent, convicted of shooting (wounding) a fleeing, illegal alien drug smuggler on the United States–Mexico border near El Paso, Texas, on February 17, 2005, and of covering up the shooting: i.e. "obstructing justice by willfully ...
Since the shooting, Border Patrol has largely not faced the same sharp criticism as Texas state troopers and local police over the failure to confront the shooter sooner. The gunman was inside the South Texas classroom for more than 70 minutes while a growing number of police, state troopers and federal agents remained outside in the hallways.
Also in May, a former Border Patrol agent was sentenced to 18 months in prison for accepting a $5,000 bribe to provide immigration paperwork to illegal border crossers, according to another complaint.
A woman from Washington state has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, which happened on Monday.. Teresa Youngblut, 21, was charged Wednesday in ...
Shooting: 6 people injured after shooting at large scale 'unpermitted' bonfire in Louisiana: Police Border patrol agent killed near Canadian border. The fatal encounter occurred around 3:15 p.m ...
Vega was born on June 17, 1978, in La Feria, Cameron County, Texas. [1] Prior to joining the Border Patrol, Vega had served in the United States Marine Corps. [2] He was married, and he had three children. [2] [3] Vega served in the Border Patrol from February 11, 2008, to August 3, 2014. [2]