Name Age Date Location (STATE) Sector Incident Summary Media Source CBP Statement 154 Unknown 29 3/27/2021 Tucson AZ Tucson A

# Name Age Date Location (STATE) Sector Incident Summary Media Source CBP Statement

154 Unknown 29 3/27/2021 Tucson AZ Tucson A 29-year-old Guatmelan man was https://fronterasdesk.org/con https://www.cbp.gov/newsro apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents in tent/1670458/man-dies- om/speeches-and- Casa Grande, AZ on March 25th. He allegedly border-patrol-custody- statements/cbp-statement- began showing signs of distress at the Tucson tucson tucson-sector-custody-death Coordination Center the following day,March 26th, and went into cardiac arrest after emergency medical services arrived. He was transported to a Tucson hospital and remained in the Intensive Care Unit until he was pronounced deceased by hospital personnel on March 27th.

The incident is being reviewed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Professional Responsibility and the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office.

153 Unknown Infant 3/18/2021 Hidalgo TX Rio Grande Valley According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Protection, Border Patrol agents in Hidalgo, TX om/speeches-and- encountered a pregnant woman in need of statements/rgv-statement- medical care near the Rio Grande. She was hospitalized-migrant-who- transported to a local hospital where she gave gave-birth-prematurely birth prematurely and the newborn passed away from complications.

152 Unknown N/A 3/10/2021 Eagle Pass TX Del Rio According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro (adult) Protection, an adult male began exhibiting om/speeches-and- signs of medical distress while in Border Patrol statements/cbp-statement- custody in Eagle Pass, TX. The man passed death-custody-eagle-pass-tx away shortly after Border Patrol agents and Emergency Medical Services allegedly rendered aid.

The incident is under investigation by the Eagle Pass, Texas Police Department and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Professiona Responsibility with no additional information as of 3/12/2021

151 Unknown N/A 1/29/2021 Hidalgo TX Rio Grande Valley According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro (adult) Protection, a Border Patrol agent discharged om/speeches-and- his weapon while arresting an adult male. The statements/update-cbp- male sustained a gunshot wound and was statement-agent-involved- transported to a local hospital where he was fatal-shooting-hidalgo-tx. pronounced deceased at 9:00a.m. on January 29, 2021.

The incident is currently under investigation by the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility, DHS Office of Inspector General, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 150 Unknown 23 12/27/2020 Laredo TX Laredo According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Protection , Border Patrol agents on om/speeches-and- observation duties on December 17, 2020 statements/statement-us- witnessed two individuals struck by a civilian customs-and-border- vehicle on U.S. Highway 83 South. Both protection-1 individuals were transported toa local hospital for medical treatment. On December 27, 2020, one of the two individuals, a 23-year-old Guatemalan citizsen was removed from life support and pronounced dead.

The Laredo Police Department continues to investigate the incident.

149 Unknown 27 12/22/2020 San Ysidro CA San Diego According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro POE Protection, an adult male traveling northbound om/speeches-and- from Mexico in a grey sedan collided with a statements/incident-san- metal arm gate at the San Ysidro Port of Entry ysidro-port-entry-results- around 2p.m. on December 22, 2020. fatality

California Highway Patrol is investigating the incident.

148 Unknown N/A 12/16/2020 Las Cruces NM El Paso According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro (adult) Protection, Border Patrol agents assigned to om/speeches-and- the El Paso Sector engaged in a vehicle statements/cbp-statement- pursuit near Las Cruces, New Mexico after an agent-involved-shooting-new- individual failed to yield at a Border Patrol mexico checkpoint. During the vehicle pursuit, agents returned fire after the man fired multiple gunshots. The man was transported to a local hospital near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, where he succumbed to injuries and was pronounced dead.

147 Unknown N/A 12/16/2020 Sanderson TX Del Rio According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro (adult) Protection, on-duty Border Patrol agents om/speeches-and- allegedly heard the sound of a tractor trailor statements/incident- break near Texas Highway 90, around statement-regarding-fatality- midnight on December 15, 2020. The agents hwy-90 responded to the location, where they found an unidentified individual had been struck and killed by a civilian vehicle.

The incident is under review by the Texas Department of Public Safety and CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility.

146 Unknown N/A 11/6/2020 Calexico CA El Centro According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro (adult) Protection, a U.S. Border Patrol agent at the om/speeches-and- Calexico Border Patrol Station struck and statements/cbp-statement- injured a man with his vehile while responding agent-involved-collision- to a report of illegal entry into the United death-calexico States. Emergency medical services transported the injured man to a local hospital where he was airlifted to and later died at a trauma center in Palm Springs, California.

145 Unknown N/A 11/2/2020 Laredo TX Laredo According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro (adult) Protection , a vehicle failed to stop for om/speeches-and- secondary inspection at the Interstate 35 U.S. statements/initial-statement- Border Patrol checkpoint on the evening of regarding-fatality-north- Sunday, November 1st. The driver allegedly interstate-35-us-border exited the vehicle and ran across the median where they were struck by a vehicle and died on the scene. 144 Unknown N/A (adult) 10/24/2020 Laredo TX Laredo U.S. Border Patrol agents were investigating a https://www.nytimes.com/20 report of "human smuggling" on October 23rd 20/10/25/us/border-patrol- when they encountered a tractor-trailer of folks shooting-texas.html suspected to be undocumented. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, another vehicle arrived during the investigation, and when agents demanded that the driver stop the car, the driver reversed into an agent and a potential suspect. The agents deployed "lethal force," shooting and killing the driver.

143 Unknown N/A (adult) 10/23/2020 San Ysidro CA San Diego According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.nbcsandiego.co https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Protection and the San Diego Police m/news/local/us-border- om/speeches-and- Department, a U.S. Border Patrol agent was patrol-involved-in-shooting- statements/update-full-cbp- tracking an undocumented adult Mexican male in-san-ysidro/2430349/ statement-agent-involved- near the port of entry at San Ysidro, CA. The fatal-shooting-san-diego Border Patrol agent and the man got into a fight, during which the Border Patrol agent shot and severely injured the man. Less than an hour later, the man was pronounced dead on site.

142 Unknown 36 10/17/2020 Laredo TX Laredo According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Protection, a 36-year-old man was found om/speeches-and- unresponsive on October 15th, 2020, in a statements/cbp-statement- group of four undocumented immigrants. The regarding-death-custody- man was transported to Laredo Medical laredo Center, but his condition worsened while at the hospital and he passed away on October 17th.

141 Nora Martinez 58 23-Sept-20 El Paso TX El Paso Mark Martinez, a retired Border Patrol agent, https://kvoa.com/news/2020/ shot and killed his wife Norma Martinez on 09/25/southern-arizona- September 23rd. Norma was found in her connection-in-el-paso- home in El Paso. Mark was linked to a double couples-apparent-murder- homicide in 1994, but never received charges suicide/ for his involvement in the murders. Mark was found dead from a self-inflicted wound in a field in New Mexico later that week. 140 Unknown 30 9/21/2020 Tucson AZ Tucson A 30-year-old man began showing symptoms https://apnews.com/article/tu https://www.cbp.gov/newsro of dehydration at a U.S. Border Patrol cson-border-patrols-arizona- om/speeches-and- centralized processing facility on Sunday, archive- statements/cbp-statement- September 20th. The man was transported to 36ea3048306b92bc31d452 regarding-death-custody- a Tucson hospital, where he died the morning 574a754a05 arizona after.

139 Unknown N/A 9/21/2020 Nogales AZ Tucson According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Protection, a Border Patrol agent was trailing a om/speeches-and- group of undocumented immigrants with intent statements/cbp-statement- to apprehend them when one of the migrants, regarding-stabbing-border- armed with a knife, stabbed the agent multiple patrol-agent-and-death times. The agent shot and killed the individual in response.

138 Unknown N/A (adult) 8/24/2020 Edinburg TX Rio Grande Valley According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Protection, on July 18th, 2020, Border Patrol om/speeches-and- agents apprehended an adult Mexican national statements/cbp-statement- who then stated that he felt ill. The man was regarding-passing-mexican- transported to a hospital, where medical national-due-covid personnel determined the man tested positive for COVID-19. The man passed away due to the coronavirus on August 24th.

137 Unknown 37 8/17/2020 Deming NM El Paso Border Patrol agents responded to a call of a https://www.elpasotimes.co woman in “dire medical distress” in Deming, m/story/news/local/new- New Mexico. She was transported to a Deming mexico/2020/08/19/ecuador- hospital, where she later died. Her cause of migrant-dies-after-found- death has not been released (as of 9/05/20). border-patrol-deming-new- mexico- desert/5605302002/?utm_c ampaign=snd- autopilot&cid=twitter_elpasot imes 136 Unknown 33 8/1/2020 Yuma AZ Yuma A Mexican man was transported to a Yuma, https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Arizona hospital after encountering Border om/speeches-and- Patrol agents on July 26, 2020, claiming he statements/cbp-statement- had sustained injuries from falling off the regarding-death-custody- border wall. He died at a local hospital on yuma-az-0 August 1, 2020.

135 Unknown N/A 7/26/2020 Del Rio TX Del Rio An undisclosed number of people died and https://www.cbp.gov/newsro others sustained serious injuries after a vehicle om/speeches-and- roll over near Del Rio, TX where Border Patrol statements/cbp-statement- agents conducted a high-speed chase in an accident-fatalities attempt to initiate a vehicle stop.

134 Unknown N/A 7/9/2020 La Grulla TX Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents encountered a group of https://www.cbp.gov/newsro migrants near La Grulla, Texas on July 5, 2020 om/speeches-and- and rendered aid to a woman who was semi- statements/unidentified- responsive. She was transported to a local woman-encountered-agents- hospital, sedated, and placed on a ventilator. passes-away-south-texas She passed away days later.

133 Unknown N/A 7/9/2020 Calexico PoE CA El Centro A CBP officer and contracted security guard https://www.cbp.gov/newsro fired their weapons at a man who was om/speeches-and- allegedly brandishing a knife at the statements/cbp-statement- international border line at the pedestrian officer-involved-fatal- processing building for the Calexico West Port shooting-calexico-west-port of Entry. The man was fatally shot and pronounced dead at the scene.

132 Unknown 39 7/7/2020 Laredo TX Laredo Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector https://www.cbp.gov/newsro allegedly responded to a report of a man in om/speeches-and- distress on July 6, 2020. The man was statements/cbp-statement- transported to a local hospital where he died regarding-death-custody- several days later. The cause and date of south-texas death have not been disclosed (as of 9/05/20).

131 Unknown 23 7/6/2020 Laredo TX Laredo Border Patrol agents responded to reports of https://www.cbp.gov/newsro an unresponsive man laying on the side of the om/speeches-and- road near Roma, TX on July 4, 2020. The man statements/cbp-statement- was transported to a Laredo hospital where he regarding-death-custody- went into cardiac arrest and died on July 7, south-texas-0 2020. 130 Santos Porfirio-Garcia 32 6/25/2020 El Paso TX El Paso A Border Patrol high-speed vehicle chase of a https://www.elpasotimes.co https://www.cbp.gov/newsro 10 passenger vehicle resulted in a crash in m/story/news/local/el- om/speeches-and- Downtown El Paso. Seven of the occupants paso/2020/06/25/seven-die- statements/cbp-statement-el- died at the scene and the other three were three-hurt-in-downtown-el- paso-accident-fatalities hospitalized. paso-crash-during-border- patrol-chase/3257704001/

129 Yadira Barrera 16 6/25/2020 El Paso TX El Paso

128 Unknown 19 6/25/2020 El Paso TX El Paso

127 Liliana Jimenez 16 6/25/2020 El Paso TX El Paso

126 Elvira Tot-Chiroy 19 6/25/2020 El Paso TX El Paso

125 Oscar Miguel Garcia-Bran 21 6/25/2020 El Paso TX El Paso

124 Gustavo Cervantes 18 6/25/2020 El Paso TX El Paso

123 Unknown N/A 6/2/2020 Douglas AZ Tucson Border Patrol agents from the Douglas Station https://www.azcentral.com/st https://www.cbp.gov/newsro in Arizona deployed a tire deflation device ory/news/local/arizona/2020/ om/speeches-and- during a high-speed vehicle chase of a 5 06/05/two-die-after-border- statements/arizona-alien- passenger vehicle. The vehicle lost control and patrol-chase-near- smuggling-incident-results- rolled over, resulting in the death of two douglas/3160043001/ deaths occupants at the scene; two others were airlifted to a Tucson area hospital and the final was treated and released to Border Patrol custody.

122 Unknown N/A 6/2/2020 Douglas AZ Tucson

121 Guadalupe David de Luna 43 4/15/2020 Laredo TX Laredo An off-duty CBP officer, Ernesto Gillen was https://abcnews.go.com/US/ https://www.cbp.gov/newsro charged with the murder Laredo Fire wireStory/border-agent- om/speeches-and- Department firefighter, Guadalupe David de arrested-fatal-shooting-texas-statements/statement-us- Luna. Gillen fatally shot De Luna during a firefighter-70214710 customs-and-border- domestic altercation. protection-0 120 Unknown 61 3/30/2020 San Ysidro CA San Diego A man was detained at the San Ysidro Port of https://www.latimes.com/cali https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Entry in the evening of March 29, 2020 and fornia/story/2020-03-30/u-s- om/speeches-and- ensued in a struggle with CBP officers before citizen-61-dies-in-custody-at- statements/cbp-statement- being moved to a detention area, where he san-ysidro-border-crossing regarding-death-custody- developed difficulty breathing and became san-ysidro-port-entry unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at the scene on March 30, 2020.

119 Unknown N/A 3/28/2020 Yuma Area AZ Yuma Border Patrol agents conducted a high-speed https://www.cbp.gov/newsro chase of a two passenger vehicle on Interstate om/speeches-and- 8. The vehicle lost control and rolled over; the statements/cbp-statement- two occupants succumbed to their injuries and yuma-area-rollover-accident- died at the scene. fatalities-0

118 Unknown N/A 3/28/2020 Yuma Area AZ Yuma

117 Unknown N/A 3/25/2020 El Paso TX El Paso An armed person was located after agents https://www.cbp.gov/newsro from the Border Patrol’s Special Operations om/speeches-and- Group in El Paso, Texas responded to an statements/cbp-statement- assistance request from El Paso County march-24-shooting-el-paso Sheriff’s Office (EPCSO). A man was shot during an exchange of fire with Border Patrol agents and EPCSO deputies. He was transported to a local hospital where he later died. 116 Unknown N/A 3/20/2020 Cuevitas TX Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents from the Rio Grande https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Valley Sector detained a man in a Border om/speeches-and- Patrol vehicle, where he was found statements/cbp-statement- unresponsive shortly after. He was regarding-death-mexican- pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of citizen death has not been released (as of 9/13/2020)

115 Unknown 19 3/7/2020 Clint TX El Paso A pregnant woman, who had allegedly fallen https://www.washingtonpost. https://www.cbp.gov/newsro from the border wall, was encountered by El com/immigration/pregnant- om/speeches-and- Paso Sector Border Patrol agents in Clint, TX woman-dies-border- statements/cbp-statement- on March 7, 2020. She was transported to a wall/2020/03/12/8519752a- regarding-death- local hospital to undergo emergency medical 647b-11ea-912d- guatemalan-citizen assistance, including a C-section. Her unborn d98032ec8e25_story.html child did not survive and the woman was pronounced dead on March 10, 2020.

114 James Paul Markowitz 32 2/4/2020 Bracketville TX Del Rio James Paul Markowitz began showing signs of https://www.buzzfeednews.c https://www.cbp.gov/newsro distress after being arrested by Border Patrol om/article/hamedaleaziz/us- om/speeches-and- agents in Brackettville, Texas. Markowitz was citizen-dies-border-patrol- statements/cbp-statement- transported to a local hospital, where he was arrest regarding-death-us-citizen pronounced dead by medical personnel.

113 Unknown 41 12/25/2019 Laredo TX Laredo A Congolese woman presented herself for https://thehill.com/policy/inte https://www.cbp.gov/newsro admission into the U.S. at the Gateway to the rnational/human- om/speeches-and- Americas Bridge in Laredo, Texas on rights/475999-congolese- statements/statement-death- December 24, 2019. She complained to CBP migrant-dies-after-night-in- congolese-national-laredo officers of abdominal pain and vomiting after cbp-facility being held for processing overnight at the Juarez Lincoln Bridge. She was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead on December 25, 2019.

112 Unknown 42 12/21/2019 La Villa TX Rio Grande Valley CBP officers took a man into custody on https://www.krgv.com/news/ https://www.cbp.gov/newsro December 20, 2020 at the Hidalgo Port of cbp-investigating-possible- om/speeches-and- Entry. He died on December 21, 2019 in a suicide-of-mexican-national- statements/cbp-statement- suspected suicide at the Hidalgo Detention at-jail-in-hidalgo-county/ death-custody-0 Center, a county jail. (no confirmation as of 2/12/2020).

111 Unknown 11/3/2019 Sunland Park NM El Paso A Border Patrol agent returned fire on a group https://www.nbcnews.com/n https://www.cbp.gov/newsro of people near the U.S. Mexico Border in ews/us-news/border-patrol- om/speeches-and- Sunland Park, fatally shooting a man. The agent-fatally-shoots- statements/cbp-statement- man was transported to a local hospital, where gunman-who-opened-fire- november-4-el-paso-sector- he was pronounced dead. n1076226 shooting 110 Unknown 33 10/26/2019 Tubac AZ Tucson On October 13, 2020, Tucson Sector Border https://thehill.com/latino/467 https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents responded to a request for 878-mexican-woman-who- om/local-media- medical aid by the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s was-in-border-patrol- release/woman-passes- deputy for a woman near Tubac, AZ. The custody-dies away-arizona-hospital woman was transported to a nearby hospital, where she later died on October 26, 2019

109 Unknown 49 10/21/2019 Tucson AZ Tucson After being apprehended by Border Patrol https://www.usatoday.com/st https://www.cbp.gov/newsro agents near Casa Grande, Arizona, a man ory/news/nation/2019/10/23/ om/speeches-and- was transported to a Tucson area hospital mexican-migrant-border- statements/cbp-statement- where he died on October 21, 2019. patrol-custody- death-custody dies/4070444002/

108 Unknown 32 8/1/2019 Lordsburg NM El Paso Border Patrol agents apprehended a man and https://www.cbp.gov/node/35 his 8-year-old daughter and transported them 1227 to the El Paso Border Patrol Station before transferring them to the Lordsburg Border Patrol Station, where the man collapsed. He died while being airlifted to a hospital.

107 Unknown 52 7/5/2019 Tucson AZ Tucson A man was transported to a local hospital after https://www.huffpost.com/en https://www.cbp.gov/newsro falling into medical distress during processing try/nicaraguan-man-dies- om/speeches-and- at a Border Patrol facility, where attempts to immigration- statements/cbp-statement- revive him were unsuccessful. custody_n_5d1ff2bde4b04c death-custody-52-year-old- 4814141258 nicaraguan-man-passes- away

106 Travis James Eckstein 23 6/3/2019 San Ysidro CA San Diego Travis James Eckstein, a U.S. citizen, https://ktla.com/2019/06/04/ https://www.cbp.gov/newsro allegedly refused to stop his vehicle for officers border-agents-kill-man- om/speeches-and- at the San Ysidro Port of Entry before being during-shootout-at-san- statements/cbp-statement- blocked by another vehicle in the inspection ysidro-port-of-entry/ june-3-shooting-san-ysidro- area. Eckstein exchanged fire with CBP update officers and was fatally shot, dying at the scene.

105 Unknown 40 6/3/2019 Eagle Pass TX Del Rio Border Patrol agents apprehended a woman https://www.cnn.com/2019/0 https://www.cbp.gov/newsro and detained her at the Eagle Pass South 6/03/politics/third-death-at- om/speeches-and- Station where she collapsed. She was border/index.html statements/cbp-statement- transported to a local hospital where she was death-custody-40-year-old- pronounced dead. honduran-woman-passes- away 104 Unknown 33 6/3/2019 Roma TX Rio Grande Valley A man allegedly suffered a seizure after being https://www.themonitor.com/ https://www.cbp.gov/newsro apprehended by Border Patrol agents. He was 2019/06/03/cbp-confirms- om/speeches-and- transported to a local hospital where he was death-el-salvadoran-man- statements/cbp-statement- pronounced dead. seeking-asylum/ death-custody-33-year-old- salvadoran-man-passes- away

103 Carlos Gregorio Hernandez 16 5/20/2019 Weslaco TX Rio Grande Valley A 16-year-old boy was apprehended by Border https://www.buzzfeednews.c https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Vasquez Patrol agents on May 13, 2019 and transferred om/article/hamedaleaziz/gu om/speeches-and- to an Office of Refugee Resettlement youth atemalan-migrant-died- statements/statement-loss- center. A week later, he was transferred to a border-patrol-government life-rgv-sector Border Patrol station in Weslaco, Texas after being determined to have had the flu. He was found dead in his cell on May 20, 2019.

102 Unknown 2 5/14/2019 El Paso TX El Paso **** RELEASED FROM CBP **** https://www.washingtonpost. **** DIED IN ICE CUSTODY**** com/immigration/toddler- A 2 ½-year-old boy and his mother were apprehended-at-the-us- apprehended by Border Patrol on April 3, mexico-border-dies-after- before being transported to a nearby hospital weeks-in- three days later. On April 7, he was hospital/2019/05/15/f69f852 transported to a hospital in El Paso, Texas 2-7755-11e9-bd25- where he remained for several weeks with a c989555e7766_story.html?u form of pneumonia before dying on May 13, tm_term=.c81dec394e40 2019.

101 Juan de Leon Gutierrez 16 4/30/2019 Brownsville TX Rio Grande Valley ***RELEASED FROM CBP CUSTODY*** https://www.buzzfeednews.c **** DIED IN ORR CUSTODY **** om/article/hamedaleaziz/un A 16-year-old boy was apprehended by Border accompanied-immigrant-boy- Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas on April 19, dies-us-custody 2019 before being transferred to Immigration Customs Enforcement custody and ultimately to an Office of Refugee Resettlement shelter in Brownsville, Texas. The boy was transported to an emergency hospital in Corpus Christi with a severe infection and died on April 30, 2019.

100 Unknown 4/6/2019 Santa Teresa NM El Paso During a high-speed chase of an 11 passenger https://www.cbp.gov/newsro vehicle, Border Patrol agents laid out a spike om/local-media-release/el- strip in an attempt to stop a vehicle. As a paso-border-patrol-agents- result, the vehicle rolled over several times apprehend-nine-vehicle- killing two of the occupants and injuring five failed-yield-new who were transported to a local hospital. 99 Unknown 4/6/2019 Santa Teresa NM El Paso

98 Unkown 40 3/18/2019 El Paso TX El Paso An unknown 40-year-old man of Mexican https://www.cnn.com/2019/0 descent died at Las Palmas Medical Center in 3/19/us/migrant-death- El Paso, Texas after being diagnosed with flu- customs-and-border- like symptoms, liver and renal failure. The man protection/index.html was apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection near the Bridge of the Americas in El Paso on March 17, 2019.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsro om/speeches-and- statements/mexican-national- dies-las-palmas-medical- center-el-paso-texas 97 Unknown 45 2/18/2019 McAllen TX Rio Grande Valley An unknwon migrant was detained by U.S. https://edition.cnn.com/2019 Customs and Border Protection on February /02/18/us/customs-and- 2nd, 2019 near a port of entry in Roma, Texas. border-protection-custody- The individual allegedly requested medical death/index.html attention on both February 2nd and February 3rd, and was diagnosed on the 3rd with cirrhosis of the liver and congestive heart failure. They remained at the McAllen Medical Center from February 3rd until their death on February 18, 2019.

96 Felipe Alonozo- Gomez 8 12/24/2018 Alomogordo NM El Paso Felipe Alonzo-Gomez and his father were https://www.thecut.com/201 https://www.dhs.gov/news/2 apprehended by the U.S. Customs and Border 8/12/felipe-alonzo-gomez- 018/12/25/guatemalan- Protection in El Paso, Texas on December 18, cbp-death-reports.html national-passes-away- 2018. Following their transfer to a border gerald-champion-regional- station in Alomogordo, New Mexico, Felipe medical-center-alamogordo became feverish and felt nauseated on December 24, 2018. After being admitted, released, and re-admitted to the Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center, Felipe was pronounced dead at approximately midnight on Christmas Eve.

95 Jakelin Caal Maquin 7 12/7/2018 South of Lordsburg NM El Paso Jakelin Caal Maquin and her father Nery Caal https://www.washingtonpost. crossed the US-Mexico border in New Mexico com/world/national- on December 6, 2018, where they reached security/7-year-old-migrant- Border Patrol agents and turned themselves girl-taken-into-border-patrol- in. Shortly after, Jakelin became ill and lost custody-dies-of-dehydration- consciousness. She was airlifted to Providence exhaustion/2018/12/13/8909 Children's Hospital in El Paso, Texas where e356-ff03-11e8-862a- she died on December 7, 2018, less than 24 b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?ut hours after being transported. m_term=.722381ed4a87

https://www.nytimes.com/20 18/12/15/us/migrant-girl- border-patrol-jakelin.html

94 Unknown N/A 11/27/2018 Near San Diego CA San Diego On November 27th, 2018, the U.S. Border https://www.cnn.com/2018/1 Patrol chased a truck carrying 11 passengers 2/01/us/california-border- in San Diego, California. During the high-speed patrol-deadly- chase, which began at Interstate 8, U.S. crash/index.html Border Patrol laid spike strips on the road in an attempt to stop a vehicle. Upon passing over the spikes, the truck crashed and rolled over, resulting in the death of three people. 93 Unknown N/A 11/28/2018 Near San Diego CA San Diego

92 Unknown N/A 11/29/2018 Near San Diego CA San Diego

91 Unknown N/A September, 2018 Laredo TX Laredo Supervisory US Border Patrol agent Juan https://www.washingtonpost. David Ortiz was arrested on September 15, com/nation/2018/09/16/wom 2018. The agent, labeled as a serial killer, was ans-daring-escape-border- accused of killing four people after a would-be patrol-agent-helped-reveal- fifth victim narrowly escaped harm and alerted serial-killer-police- a police officer. Ortiz is currently being tried for say/?noredirect=on&utm_ter 90 Nikki Enriguez 28 9/14/2018 Laredo TX Laredo the murders he committed. m=.9d86350a35f3

89 Claudine Anne Luera 42 9/13/2018 Laredo TX Laredo

88 Melissa Ramirez 29 9/3/2018 Laredo TX Laredo

87 Unkown N/A 6/17/2018 Big Wells TX Laredo US Border Patrol agents chased an SUV https://www.npr.org/2018/06/ carrying 14 people on a rural road about 125 18/620933918/at-least-5- 86 Unkown N/A 6/17/2018 Big Wells TX Laredo miles southwest of San Antonio. Dimmit dead-after-border-patrol-car- County Sheriff Marion Boyd alleged that the chase-ends-with-a-crash-in- vehicle ran off the road, caught gravel, tried to texas recorrect, and as a result turned over several times, resulting in the deaths of five of the

85 Unkown N/A 6/17/2018 Big Wells TX Laredo passengers.

84 Unkown N/A 6/17/2018 Big Wells TX Laredo

83 Unkown N/A 6/17/2018 Big Wells TX Laredo

82 Claudia Patricia Gomez 20 5/23/2018 Rio Bravo TX Laredo According to U.S. Customs and Border https://abcnews.go.com/Polit Gonzalez Protection, a Border Patrol agent shot and ics/border-patrol-agent-kills- killed Claudia after a group of migrants (which woman-attempting-cross- included Claudia) had attempted to cross the texas/story?id=55457805 Texas border illegally and allegedly rushed the agent afterwards. CBP has altered the details of the events from claims of it being a rock- throwing incident to one where the group rushed the agent involved. The FBI has launched an investigation.

81 Robert Young III 29 Febrary 12, 2018 Pinecrest FL Miami A burglar broke through the glass doors of a https://www.miamiherald.co house in the upscale village of Pinecrest (in m/news/local/community/mi Florida) on February 12th, 2018. The burglar ami- was shot and killed by the homeowner, a high- dade/article199617879.html ranking Miami CBP officer.

80 Juan Daniel Jacques 33 January, 2018 Socorro TX El Paso Juan Daniel Jacques attacked an off-duty https://kfoxtv.com/news/local officer and the agent fired his weapon in /off-duty-el-paso-border- response, shooting and killing Jacques. agent-shot-attacker-in- defense-say-deputies

79 Rolando Chavez Chavez 26 Nov. 29, 2017 Tucson AZ Tucson According to U.S. Border Patrol, Chávez https://tucson.com/news/loc attacked an agent while being taken into al/man-shot-in-struggle-with- custody. A struggle ensued where Chávez border-agent-id-ed- grabbed the agent's gun. A second officer shot as/article_d09981f3-cf5c- and killed Chavez during the struggle. The 53f0-8ff7- Tohono O'odham Police are still investigating ae719b43c29f.html the incident. 78 Unknown 1 N/A 9/17/2017 San Ysidro CA San Diego Two unknown mirgrants were hit by a Chevy http://www.latimes.com/local Trailblazer while crossing the highway, after /lanow/la-me-ln-fatal-border- they left a van crossing into the U.S. The seven crossing-20170917- other occupants of the van were detained story.html shortly afterwards by the U.S. Border Patrol agents.

77 Unknown 2 N/A San Ysidro CA San Diego 76 Rodolfo Ballardo 31 9/13/2017 Southwest of Tucson AZ Tucson Authorities say that, after getting pulled over by https://www.azcentral.com/st a DPS trooper, Ballardo shot at the trooper ory/news/local/arizona- and fled the scene by car. Ballardo was shot breaking/2017/09/14/arizona- an unknown number of times by Border Patrol interstate-10-deadly- agents and injured during a shootout at a gas shootout-suspect-identified- station in Quartzsite. Ballardo later died from rodolfo-ballard/667140001/ his injuries at a local hospital.

75 Raul Quiroz 20 8/10/2017 San Diego CA San Diego U.S. Border Patrol agents engaged an SUV in https://www.nbcsandiego.co a high-speed chase after claiming the license m/news/local/Authorities- plate was thought to have been connected to a Identify-3-Killed-in-Border- homicide investigation and human smuggling Patrol-Pursuit-Crash-on-I-15- operations. During the chase, the SUV went 442814733.html over the side of the interstate, flipped, and crashed, killing three of the four people in the car. U.S. Customs and Border Protections 74 Gloria Lopez-Lopez 15 San Diego CA San Diego later confirmed none of the people in the vehicle were wanted in a homicide investigation. The subsequent California Highway Patrol report on the incident blamed 73 Israel Caballero 18 San Diego CA San Diego the driver (Raul) for the deaths.

72 Unknown N/A 5/5/2017 I-25 Border Patrol NM El Paso An unknown man shot at Border Patrol agents https://www.lcsun- Checkpoint (N of Las during a secondary inspection at the Las news.com/story/news/local/2 Cruces) Cruces Immigration Checkpoint on I-25. 017/05/05/man-shot-border- Agents returned fire at the man, whose checkpoint-dies/101353470/ condition was unknown, and subsequently transported the man to a local hospital. A month later, the man was pronounced dead by federal authorities at a local hospital. An FBI spokesman claimed the man shot himself.

http://www.lcsun- news.com/story/news/local/2 017/05/05/man-shot-border- checkpoint-dies/101353470/

71 Unknown N/A 4/4/2017 I-10 Border Patrol NM El Paso New Mexico State Police claim that the driver https://www.elpasotimes.co Checkpoint (W of Las of a vehicle suspected in a road rage incident m/story/news/immigration/20 Cruces) became argumentative with Border Patrol 19/04/07/border-patrol- agents at the I-10 Border Patrol Checkpoint. chase-ends-crash-2- The vehicle's tires were punctured by spike migrants-killed-new- strips, and the driver subsequently drove mexico/3394408002/ across the median from the westbound lanes into eastbound lanes, hit a fence, and traveled over the embankment before stopping in a field. Police claimed that the driver was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. http://www.lcsun- news.com/story/news/local/2 017/05/05/man-shot-border- checkpoint-dies/101353470/

70 Clarence Duane Huderle 73 3/20/2017 Warren MN Houlton Clarence Duane Huderle, an elderly man from http://www.grandforksherald. Minnesota, fired at a mail carrier and sheriff's com/news/4320442- deputy at his home in March and was killed by attorneys-office-rules-officer- an agent with the U.S. Border Patrol, shooting-minnesota-man- according to an investigation by the state. The justified-report-says Polk County Sheriff's Office ruled the shooting was justified. 69 Unknown 1 N/A 2/23/2017 Lordsburg NM El Paso The U.S. Border Patrol engaged in high-speed https://kfoxtv.com/news/local pursuit of a vehicle whose driver refused to /border-patrol-chase-leads- stop when requested by agents. The vehicle to-deadly-crash-in-new- struck a road sign, entered the median on the mexico-shuts-down-part-of- highway and rolled over a few times. Two of interstate three passengers in the vehicle were found 68 Unknown 2 N/A Lordsburg NM El Paso dead at the scene.

67 Unknown N/A 7/15/2016 Laredo TX Laredo According to U.S. Customs and Border CBP Official Statement: Protection, an unknown man was found by On July 15, 2016, at Border Patrol agents near the river in Laredo, approximately 5:30 a.m., Texas. CBP claims that the Border Patrol Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents subdued the man after the man agents encountered a male- became combative, and that the man became subject near the river in unresponsive while the agents escorted him to Laredo, Texas. Border the vehicle. The man was pronounced dead at Patrol agents subdued the a local hospital. man after he became combative. While escorting the man to the vehicle, the man became unresponsive, Border Patrol agents immediately provided medical attention until Laredo Emergency Medical Services arrived and transported the man to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. The 66 Unknown N/A 6/9/2016 Yuma AZ Yuma According to U.S. Customs and Border CBP Official Statement: Protection, a Yuma Sector Border Patrol agent YUMA, Ariz. – A Yuma shot an unknown man after the man grabbed Sector Border Patrol agent both the agent's radio and collapsible steel discharged his service- baton, and then proceeded to beat the agent issued weapon while being with the baton. The agent fired his weapon assaulted by an adult male after the man allegedly began reaching for the who crossed illegally into agent's sidearm. The man was pronounced the United States near dead after medical professionals were unable Somerton, Arizona, last to resuscitate the him en route to Yuma night at approximately 10:00 Regional Medical Center. p.m.“During the arrest, the subject grabbed the agent’s radio and collapsible steel baton and began striking him in the face and head while he also attempted to remove the Agent’s sidearm from its holster. The agent, fearing for his life, discharged his weapon, which struck the suspect. Both the agent and suspect were transported to Yuma Regional Medical Center via ambulance, where medical professionals were unable to resuscitate the suspect and he was pronounced dead. The agent sustained 65 Unknown N/A 5/22/2016 Laredo TX Laredo According to the U.S. Border Patrol, agents https://www.ksat.com/news/ chased a "suspicious looking" vehicle down I- 1-dead-10-injured-in-crash- 35. When attempting to avoid a tire deflation after-border-patrol-chase- device used by Border Patrol agents, the driver north-of-laredo lost control of the vehicle, causing it to flip multiple times One person died and 10 others were injured in the crash.

64 Unknown 1 N/A 3/23/2016 Yuma AZ Yuma According to the U.S. Customs and Border http://www.sonorannews.co CBP Official Statement: Protection, migrants fleeing from agents in a m/archives/2016/160406/ne YUMA, Ariz. - A failed vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer on ws-border-report.html%0A smuggling attempt resulted Interstate 8, killing two and injuring four in the death of two individuals. individuals Wednesday night during an attempt to evade law enforcement. At approximately 7:45 p.m. 63 Unknown 2 N/A 3/23/2016 Yuma AZ Yuma (PST), Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents observed a group of suspected illegal immigrants exiting a brushy area and running to a vehicle parked in a gas station parking lot near Andrade, California. The suspects entered the vehicle and fled. The suspect vehicle subsequently collided with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 8, killing two and injuring four individuals. The driver of the tractor- trailer was not injured.The alleged driver of the vehicle, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen, is currently under investigation for alien smuggling.Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Anthony Porvaznik said, "While we lament the loss of lives in this incident, it serves as a violent demonstration 62 Hector Leroy 43 2/4/2016 El Paso TX El Paso According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.elpasotimes.co Protection, three El Paso U.S. Border Patrol m/story/news/crime/2016/02 agents responded to the sound of gunshots /05/officials-killer-carjacking- near a Greyhound Bus Station. Agents truck-when-shot/79896992/ observed a wounded person lying on the ground and Hector Leroy fleeing the scene on foot. Agents pursued the Leroy, who pointed his gun at one of the agents after being asked to drop his weapon. Another agent shot and killed Leroy.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/ story/news/crime/2016/02/0 5/officials-killer-carjacking- truck-when-shot/79896992/

61 Unknown 1/31/2016 North West Laredo TX Laredo An unknown person died as a result of being https://web.archive.org/web/ thrown from a minivan during a chase with the 20170131065808/https://ww U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Four w.lmtonline.com/news/articl other occupants were taken to Doctors e/Border-Patrol-chase-ends- Hospital of Laredo. in-fatal-crash-in- 10135063.php

http://www.lmtonline.com/fro nt-news/article_7af142ee- c934-11e5-b23d- fb5ee68c1725.html 60 [Not Released] N/A 10/21/2015 Calexico PoE CA El Centro According to the U.S. Customs and Border https://www.facebook.com/w Protection, an officer on duty at the Calexico atch/?v=936581459761659 West Port of entry in California was approached by an individual on a bike. The individual got off the bike and approached the officer with a knife. The officers shot the man, who was then transported to a local hospital. The man was pronunced dead.

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59 Rayshaun Cole 30 10/17/2015 Chula Vista CA San Diego U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer https://www.sandiegouniontri Melissa Hayes-Spencer shot and killed her bune.com/sdut-chula-vista- boyfriend in their apartment, claiming self- shooting-2015oct17- defense. Officer Hayes-Spencer was under story.html investigation when she died in a car crash a few months later.

http://www.sandiegouniontrib une.com/news/2015/oct/17/ chula-vista-shooting/

58 Unknown N/A 9/23/2015 Drummond Island MI Detroit According to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Protection, Border Patrol agents (BPAs) were om/stats/cbp-use-force/case- asssiting Michigan State Police (MSP) summaries/sept-24-2015- Troopers in response to a subject of a missing use-force-incident-near- person/suicidal person alert on Drummond drummond-island-0 Island, Michigan. MSP Troopers eventually discontinued their active search and requested that BPAs continue searching. Two BPAs located and approached a cabin in a more secluded part of the island, in which they found the subject lying on a bunk bed. The BPAs identified themselves and advised the subject not to touch the rifle lying next to them; the subject reached for the rifle and the BPAs shot and killed the subject.

57 Richard Matt 49 6/26/2015 Lake Titus NY Buffalo Convicted murderer Richard Matt escaped https://nypost.com/2015/06/ from prison and was on the run for 3 weeks 26/escaped-killer-richard- before law enforcement cornered him. Border matt-shot-in-woods/ Patrol agents were called in to help the search. Matt was holding a shotgun when the authorities found him and would not drop the weapon and raise his hands over his head. A Border Patrol agent shot him three times in the head, killing him.

http://nypost.com/2015/06/2 6/escaped-killer-richard- matt-shot-in-woods/

56 Graciela Lopez Franco 32 6/18/2015 Encinitas CA San Diego A U.S. Customs and Border Protection boat https://www.latimes.com/loc collided with a smuggling boat (a panga) al/lanow/la-me-ln-one-dead- carrying people suspected to be trying to enter california-coast-capsizes- the U.S. without documents. The smuggling 20150618-story.html boat capsized and 20 people fell into the water. One woman died and three others were transported to a hospital with severe injuries. The District Court found the panga driver guilty of the collision and cleared the Border Patrol agents of charges related to the collision. http://www.latimes.com/local /lanow/la-me-ln-one-dead- california-coast-capsizes- 20150618-story.html

Stickney, R. Lawsuit Alleges CBP Officers Used Excessive Force in Woman’s Death . NBC SAN DIEGO (Aug 24 2015) http://www.nbcsandiego.co m/news/local/Panga-Boat- CBP-Vessel-Lawsuit- Graciela-Lopez-Franco- 322719891.html

55 [Not Released] N/A 5/17/2015 British Virgin Islands BVI Ramey A suspected drug smuggler was shot and https://apnews.com/article/2 killed by U.S. agents during a chase off the 207b58471ea48f5b1ebb52a British Virgin Islands. U.S. Customs and 79dc7f53 Border Protection agents were fired upon in the waters of the British Caribbean territory as they chased a boat suspected of being used to transport drugs. The agents returned fire, wounding the suspect, then boarded the vessel and provided medical care. The suspect was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

http://news.yahoo.com/us- agents-kill-suspected- smuggler-off-british-virgin- 202415549.html

Staff. Agents kill suspected drug smuggler off BVI. VIRGIN ISLANDS DAILY NEWS (May 19, 2015), available at:

http://virginislandsdailynews. com/news/agents-kill- suspected-drug-smuggler- off-bvi-1.1884123

54 Jamison Edward Childress 20 3/19/2015 Suma WA Blaine Jamison Childress, a 20-year-old Canadian https://www.bellinghamheral man wanted for murder, tripped a sensor d.com/news/local/crime/artic indicating that someone had crossed the le22282674.html border from Canada into Sumas, Washington. Two Border Patrol agents confronted the man and, when the man sprayed one of the agents with an unknown substance, one of the agents fired a shot and killed the man. Whatcom prosecutor Dave McEachran found the agent justified in the shooting, and the agent did not face charges.

http://www.bellinghamherald .com/2015/03/20/4197023_ man-shot-by-border-patrol- near.html?rh=1

Talmazan, Yuliya. U.S. Border Patrol agent will not face charges in Sumas crossing shooting. GLOBAL NEWS (May 20, 2015), available at:

http://globalnews.ca/news/2 007699/u-s-border-patrol- agent-will-not-face-charges- in-sumas-crossing-shooting/ 53 Jose Francisco “Franklin” N/A 00-March-15 South Padre Island TX Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agent Luna was found to have https://www.valleycentral.co Rodriguez Palacios Paz been engaged in criminal activity with the Gulf m/news/local-news/border- Cartel. Luna was also found responsible for patrol-agent-charged-with- killing and mutilating Jose "Franklin" Paz, multiple-counts/ whose headless body was found off the shore of South Padre Island. Officer Luna was acquitted on murder charges but found guilty for criminal activity; his brother was found guilty of capital murder.

http://valleycentral.com/new s/local/border-patrol-agent- charged-with-multiple- counts

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Border Patrol Accused in Decapitation Death in South Texas (Nov. 6, 2015), available at:

https://www.cbsnews.com/n ews/joel-luna-texas-border- agent-not-guilty-in-death-of- immigrant-found- decapitated/

52 [Name not released] N/A 2/18/2015 Marfa BP Station TX Marfa A Mexican citizen was apprehended by Border https://web.archive.org/web/ Patrol agents on Tuesday, February 17 in 20150222035837/https://big Marfa, TX for alleged illegal entry into the bendnow.com/2015/02/mexi country. On Wednesday, February 18th, the can-citizen-dies-while-in- man became ill at the Marfa Border Patrol border-patrol-custody/ Station. Border Patrol agents allegedly rendered aid and contacted Emergency Medical Services - who were unable to revive the man.

http://bigbendnow.com/2015 /02/mexican-citizen-dies- while-in-border-patrol- custody/

51 Tiano Meton 25 1/22/2015 Interstate 10, Sierra Blanca TX El Paso A man was pulled into the inspection lane at a https://web.archive.org/web/ Border Patrol checkpoint on I-10 near Sierra 20150826145637/http://hud Blanca, but then refused to stop. Border Patrol spethcountyherald.com/in- agents pursued the vehicle for 30 miles before border-patrol-shooting- it finally stopped. Four agents were limited-details-emerge/ approaching the vehicle when one yelled, 'Gun!' and the agents opened fire, killing the man in the vehicle. A 'pistol-shaped pellet gun' was recovered from the individual's vehicle, according U.S. Customs and Border Protection

http://hudspethcountyherald. com/in-border-patrol- shooting-limited-details- emerge/ 50 [Not Released] N/A 1/21/2015 Chapeño TX Laredo According to the U.S. Customs and Border https://www.valleycentral.co Protection, U.S. Border Patrol agents from Rio m/news/local-news/border- Grande City Station responded to claims of patrol-agent-shoots-and-kills- drug smuggling activity in Chapeño, Texas drug-smuggler/ when one agent searching the area came under fire. The agent returned fire, shooting and killing one subject during the struggle.

https://www.valleycentral.co m/news/local-news/border- patrol-agent-shoots-and-kills- drug-smuggler/

49 Francisco Manuel Ceseña 40 12/24/2014 San Ysidro P.O.E CA San Diego An El Cajon resident was shot with a taser and https://www.kpbs.org/news/2 killed (due to cardiac arrest) at the San Ysidro 015/jun/10/man-died- Port of Entry. U.S. Customs and Border cardiac-arrest-san-ysidro- Protection claim the man was combative, border-crossing/ under the influence of herion and methamphetamine, and that he attacked the two officers checking his criminal record. An FBI investigation concluded that the actions of the officers constituted a "just use of force."

48 Adam Thomas 27 11/8/2014 Hemet CA San Diego An off-duty Border Patrol agent, John Demery, https://www.latimes.com/loc confronted a neighbor and fatally shot him al/lanow/la-me-ln-off-duty- multiple times. A six-year veteran of the border-patrol-agent-arrested- Border Patrol assigned to the Murrieta station, on-suspicion-of-homicide- Demery was placed on paid administrative 20141108-story.html leave after the shooting. Demery was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2017.

47 Amaro López 23 10/24/2014 Southwest of Tucson AZ Tucson According to U.S. Customs and Border https://tucson.com/news/ma Protection, the man was shot in the head and n-killed-in-border-patrol- killed during a foot chase between two Border shooting-was- Patrol agents and several men in thearea of mexican/article_6fc42ac2- West Hermans and South Sandario roads. 3a96-57a4-93b2- Other members of the group ran off. 6945fbca301d.html

46 [Name not released] 36 10/17/2014 Holding cell BP checkpoint TX El Paso According to the AP, Federal authorities say a CBP statement: At between Carlsbad NM & El drug suspect has died while in custody at a approximately 10:40 a.m. Paso U.S. Border Patrol facility in Texas. CBP says Friday, October 17, U.S. the 36-year-old man was found unresponsive Border Patrol agents Friday in a holding cell at a Border Patrol assigned to Highway 62/180 checkpoint. Border Patrol checkpoint discovered that a 36-year- old male in custody at the checkpoint was unresponsive in a holding cell. Border Patrol agents immediately began administering CPR and contacted emergency medical services for further assistance. EMS arrived on scene and continued lifesaving efforts during transport to an El Paso hospital where the subject was pronounced dead. The subject was in custody 45 Aide Fink 50 9/25/2014 Flower Mound (near Dallas) TX Laredo Police arrested Border Patrol agent Daniel https://starlocalmedia.com/t Fink, 40, for the murder of his estranged wife. heleader/fink-gets-50-years- The 50-year-old woman was found with for-flower-mound- multiple gunshot wounds just after midnight murder/article_48a5c900- Thursday inside a house. Fink was sentenced 0ee4-11e5-9c46- to 50 years in prison in June of 2015. 27d7a0ac841b.html 44 [Name not released] 54 9/5/2014 McAllen Station Processing TX Rio Grande Valley A 54-year-old man was found by Border Patrol https://www.valleycentral.co CBP’s statement: Shortly Facility, hanging and unresponsive at the McAllen m/news/local- before noon local time on Station processing facility by Border Patrol news/immigrant-found- Friday, Sept. 5, U.S. Border agents. The man was transported to a local hanging-at-mcallen-border- Patrol agents at McAllen hospital where he later died. patrol-station/ Station processing facility encountered a 54-year-old male Mexican national who was unresponsive. Border Patrol agents immediately began administering CPR and contacted emergency medical services for further assistance. Medically trained staff at the processing facility assisted with CPR until local EMS arrived on scene. The man was transported to a local hospital where he later died. U.S. Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector and CBP’s Office of Internal 43 Joaquin Thomas Cibrian 29 7/22/2014 Edinburg TX Rio Grande Valley On July 22, 2014, several law enforcement https://www.cbp.gov/newsro agencies including the Edinburg Texas Police om/stats/cbp-use-force/case- Department (EPD) attempted to arrest Joaquin summaries/july-22-2014-use- Tomas Cibrian in La Joya, Texas. Cibrian force-incident-edinburg-tx- allegedly shot and wounded two officers resulting before barricading himself in the private La Joya residence. Border Patrol responded to an assistance request from EPD. A total of 10 law enforcement officials, including Border Patrol agents, fired at the man. Cibrain died at the scene.

42 Jose Luis Arambula 31 5/30/2014 Green Valley AZ Tucson Accroding to U.S. Customs and Border https://www.gvnews.com/ne Protection, Jose Luis Arambula--a 31-year-old ws/local/border-patrol-agent- man from Tucson--was shot and killed in wont-face-charges-in-green- Green Valley as he was fleeing Border Patrol valley- agents. The agents first pursued the man via a shooting/article_175a1bbe- car chase and then by foot. One of the agents, 3891-11e4-8d90- Daniel Marquez, fired multiple shots at the 001a4bcf887a.html man, killing him. The Pima County Sheriff's Office cleared Agent Marquez of any wrongdoing; Arambula's wife filed a lawsuit against Agent Marquez, but the court dismissed the case in 2017. 41 [Name not released] N/A 3/10/2014 Detroit MI Detroit An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally https://www.clickondetroit.co shot a man in Detroit during a dispute that may m/news/2014/03/10/detroit- have stemmed from a card game. The agent police-off-duty-border-patrol- fired several shots at the other man, killing agent-involved-in-fatal- him. shooting-on-citys-east-side/

40 Julian Ramirez Galindo 41 2/18/2014 Otay Mnts (Southeast of San CA San Diego Two Border Patrol agents split up to cut off a https://www.kpbs.org/news/2 (misidentified as Jesús Diego) group of three suspected undocumented 014/feb/18/border-patrol- Flores Cruz) immigrants. The two agents were out of sight agent-fatally-shoots-suspect- of each other when one of the agents was otay-ar/ allegedly struck in the face by a rock thrown by one of the suspects. The agent fired his duty pistol at the man, striking him. The agent sustained minor injuries. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection initially identified the victim as Jesus Flores Cruz, but the man killed was actually Julian Ramirez Galindo. The lawsuit initiated by Galindo's wife was dismissed with prejudice. 39 Gabriel Sanchez Velazquez Late 20's 1/16/2014 Near Apache and Portal AZ Tucson According to U.S. Customs and Border https://tucson.com/gabriel- Protection, Mexican male fled from Border sanchez- Patrol agents and was eventually found hiding velasquez/article_b7a4b7d4- under a mesquite bush. He struggled with the d197-11e8-8bf7- agent who found him, attempting to get the 873621a325ff.html federal officer's weapon. The BP agent pulled his handgun and fired at the suspect. The man was struck in the upper body area and succumbed to his injuries at the scene. The Cochise County Attorney's office deemed the use of deadly force justified and declined to prosecute the case in May 2014.

38 Keith J. Martin 35 1/2/2014 Near Hondo TX Laredo Border Patrol agent Adam S. Garibay, 33, was https://www.expressnews.co found guilty of killing his wife's lover, Keith J. m/news/local/article/Ex- Martin (U.S. citizen born in Germany), 35. After Border-Patrol-agent-admits- beating and tying up his wife in Corpus Christi, killing-wife-s-6620688.php Garibay drove to Martin's home on a private road 3 miles north of Hondo, TX, and allegedly shot him to death. Garibay was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

37 Steven Keith 58 12/25/2013 Campo Border Patrol CA San Diego A man was arrested at a border checkpoint http://america.aljazeera.com Station near San Diego after agents allegedly found drug /articles/2014/3/16/us- paraphernalia and trace amounts of border- methamphetamine inside his vehicle. The man patrolthoughtdeadmanwasfa was taken to a holding cell at the Campo kingseizurereportsays.html Border Patrol Station, where Border Patrol officials claim he became incoherent and unresponsive. Six hours afterwards, the man was found dead. 36 Cruz Marcelino Velazquez 16 11/18/2013 San Ysidro POE CA San Diego While crossing the pedestrian bridge at the https://www.nbcsandiego.co Acevedo Point of Entry, a 16-year-old teenager was m/news/local/family-of-teen- stopped by CBP officers for a discrepancy with who-died-after-drinking- his visa. While waiting on a secondary liquid-meth-at-border- inspection, officers asked about two bottles of crossing-settles/35986/ amber liquid he was carrying, which the K-9 unit alerted that there was a presence of drugs. Agents coerced Cruz to take 'a large sip' of the liquid to prove the contents were not drugged. Less than an hour later, Cruz became agitated and yelled 'my heart, my heart' in Spanish. Cruz died hours later at a hospital from acute methamphetamine intoxication. In 2017, the family of Acevedo received a $1 million settlement after suing U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

35 Ernesto Gutierrez Cortez 38 10/19/2013 Otay Mesa CA San Diego After California Highway Patrol conducted a https://www.nbcsandiego.co high-speed chase of a suspected carjacking, m/news/local/suspect-chp- three U.S. Customs and Border Protection high-speed-pursuit-north- officials at a Port of Entry shot at the car, killing county-to-otay- the driver. mesa/1962170/#ixzz2iP4ZLj gY

34 Matthew Simmons 27 3/21/2013 Just S. of Hebbronville TX Laredo Agents drove up to a car on the side of road BROKEN LINK that appeared to have been in an accident. One agent checked the car license plate and determines it was a stolen vehicle. Mathew Simmons, a 27-year-old man, was still in the car when he pulled a handgun on the three agents, shooting one of them in the hip. The agents respond with gunfire and killed him.

33 [Name not released] 51 2/16/2013 San Ysidro, POE CA San Diego A man crossed into the United States in a https://www.sandiegouniontri vehicle with two other relatives who were U.S. bune.com/sdut-border-death- citizens. They were directed to an inspection 2013feb17-story.html area and he collapsed. An agent performed CPR on the man until medics arrived. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), CBP agents did not use any force on the suspect. The cause of the man's death is not known. 32 Margarito Lopez Morelos 19 12/2/2012 Baboquivari Mnts. AZ Tucson A 19-year-old man was shot and killed https://tucson.com/margarito- following a struggle with a Border Patrol agent. lopez- The FBI investigation on the issue is still morelos/article_a23472ea- ongoing. d197-11e8-8eb0- f749dd3c55f3.html 31 José Antonio Elena 16 10/11/2012 Nogales, AZ Tucson According to authorities, U.S. Border Patrol https://www.azcentral.com/st Rodriguez agents reportedly shot a 16-year-old teenager ory/news/politics/border- who was standing in Mexico, 16 times in the issues/2020/10/09/families- back and killed him after the teenager cross-border-shootings-take- reportedly threw rocks at the agents from cases-international- across the border. Agent Lonnie Swartz was watchdog/5929805002/ officially charged with second-degree murder for the shooting, and the court found that Swartz should not be granted qualified immunity in 2018; however, as of April 2020, following the ruling by the SCOTUS on Hernandez v. Mesa, the decision is being remanded and reconsidered accordingly to the precedent set in Hernandez v. Mesa.

30 Nicholas J. Ivie 30 10/2/2012 Near Bisbee AZ Tucson Three Border Patrol agents responded to an https://tucson.com/news/loc alarm triggered by a sensor aimed at detecting al/crime/fbi-friendly-fire- smugglers and illegal immigrants entering the killed-arizona-border-patrol- U.S. The agent was shot and killed by another agent/article_249eb3fb- agent friendly fire during the incident. 9a53-5a6a-87f0- e2d885ffc86e.html

29 Valerie Tachiquin-Alvarado 32 9/28/2012 Chula Vista CA San Diego Border Patrol agents were serving a felony https://abcnews.go.com/US/ warrant in a neighborhood in Chula Vista when valeria-alvarado-california- agents claimed Valerie Tachiquin-Alvarado ran woman-fatally-shot-border- her car into one of the agents. The agent who patrol/story?id=17359380 was not in uniform shot into her vehicle ten times and killed her. There was no body camera footage, and witnesses claimed that Valerie was driving away from the officers, not towards them.

28 Guillermo Arévalo Pedraza 36 9/3/2012 Laredo TX Laredo Guillermo Arevalo Pedraza was shot and killed https://www.mysanantonio.c while at a barbeque with his wife and om/news/local_news/article/ daughters. U.S. Border Patrol agents claim Father-shot-by-border-agent- they were under attack from rock throwers on while-holding-his- the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. A video of 3848597.php the shooting didn't show any rock throwing. The case is still ongoing -- defendants filed a motion to dismiss following the Supreme Court judgement on Hernandez v. Mesa, another case involving a cross-border shooting.

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27 Juan Pablo Perez Santillán 30 7/7/2012 Brownsville TX Rio Grande Valley Juan Pablo Perez Santillan was shot and killed https://www.texasobserver.or by Border Patrol agents hile standing on the g/us-border-patrol-agent- banks of the Rio Grande. U.S. Border Patrol fatally-shoots-man-across- claims Perez Santillán was throwing rocks, but border/ witnesses in Mexico say he was unarmed. Ernestina Santillan, Juan Pablo's mother, sued the Border Patrol agents involved, but the court dismissed the case based on precedent set by Hernandez v. Mesa.

26 Charles Robinson 75 6/23/2012 Jackman ME Houlton Charles Robinson was shot and killed by https://bangordailynews.com Border Patrol agents during a confrontation at /2012/11/27/news/border- his residence, which involved an exchange of patrol-agents-were-justified- bullets initiated by Robinson. Robinson was in-using-deadly-force- reportedly intoxicated and believed to be against-jackman-man-ag- injured. Attorney General William Schneider rules/ found the agents were justified in their use of deadly force. 25 Unknown 1 N/A 4/11/2012 Palmview TX Rio Grande Valley Nine people died and seven were hospitalized https://www.chron.com/news in a crash involving Border Patrol agents and a /houston-texas/article/Nine- suspected immigrant smuggler. Border Patrol killed-in-crash-involving- agents stopped the vehicle after suspecting suspected-3476036.php immigrant smuggling. While agents were 24 Unknown 2 N/A Palmview TX Rio Grande Valley distracted, the van fled and agents followed in pursuit. The van flipped and ejected passengers onto the roadway.

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16 Alexander Arthur Martin 24 3/15/2012 Near Campo CA San Diego Alex Martin died in car explosion that may have https://www.nbcsandiego.co been caused by Border Patrol tasers. Border m/news/local/border- Patrol officials chased Martin's car after he explosion-suspect- began driving the wrong way down the investigated-as- highway. The Martin family sued CBP, and homicide/1948541/ reports produced during the case found that the tasers had been responsible for the car explosion. A judge dismissed the case, claiming that the agents were justified in their use of force. 15 Byron Sosa Orellana 28 12/6/2011 Near Sells AZ Tucson A man was shot and killed after allegedly https://tucson.com/byron- assaulting an agent and police dog. The FBI sosa- investigation into the incident still remains orellana/article_f9136f36- open. d196-11e8-9584- b392ddc3c9ef.html 14 Gerardo Rico Lozano 20 11/3/2011 Near Corpus Christi TX Rio Grande Valley Gerardo Rico Lozano, a 20-year-old man, was https://www.mysanantonio.c shot and killed after allegedly driving at Border om/news/local_news/article/ Patrol agents who pulled over his vehicle. Man-killed-by-Border-Patrol- Gerardo's mother filed a suit claiming that the agent-identified- agent's actions constituted an excessive use of 2259170.php force and that agents shot the vehicle from the side and the rear, meaning the vehicle could not be driving into the agents. The court dismissed the case and denied Gerardo's mother's motion for reconsideration.

13 Omar Olivares 28 9/15/2011 Eagle Pass TX Del Rio An off-duty agent got into a shootout with his https://www.epbusinessjourn wife's cousin for unknown reasons. The wife's al.com/2011/09/u-s-border- cousin, Omar Olivares, was killed at the scene patrolman-and-family- and the agent died later at Ft. Duncan Medical member-both-dead-after- Center. According to the El Paso Police family-dispute-escalates-into- Department, approx. 36-38 rounds shot by gunfire/ both individuals. The wife's cousin was shot approximately four times by the agent and the agent was shot seven times.

12 Jose Alfredo Yañez Reyes 40 6/21/2011 San Diego CA San Diego Jose Alfredo Yañez Reyes was shot and killed https://www.sandiegouniontri by U.S. Border Patrol agents who suspected bune.com/sdut-rock- him of attempting to cross the border into the throwing-lawsuit-yanez- U.S. illegally. Agents claim suspected border border-patrol-2015mar05- crossers were throwing rocks. It is unclear story.html whether Reyes was involved in the rock throwing or not. The man's widow filed a suit against the United States Customs and Border Protection for unlawful killing, but the court ruled in favor of US Customs and Border Protection. 11 Amado Rodriguez 46 4/18/2011 Fabens TX El Paso Amado Rodriguez was shot and killed at a http://archive.azcentral.com/ crime scene involving the El Paso Sheriff’s news/projects/border- Office SWAT Team and El Paso Sheriff's deaths/ deputies. Family members of the man claimed that he had been in a wheelchair since age 17, and was improperly shot by law enforcement agents responding to the scene. Results of Internal Affairs investigations have not been released.

10 Carlos Lamadrid 19 3/21/2011 Douglas AZ Tucson Carlos Lamadrid, a 19-year-old man, was shot https://tucson.com/carlos- 3 times in the back and killed by a Border lamadrid/article_79013562- Patrol agent while fleeing across the border d196-11e8-9aac- into Mexico, reportedly transporting marijuana. 27dfd0b5032a.html The agent was allegedly under attack by a rock thrower when he fired. Lamadrid's mother filed a civil suit against the Border Patrol agent, in which the court ruled that the agent was justified for their use of force. 9 Alex Martinez 30 2/27/2011 Whatcom County WA Blaine Alex Martinez was shot and killed by Border https://citylivingseattle.com/ Patrol agents while allegedly swinging a Content/Default/City- hammer and smashing windows in his mobile News/Article/Forum-looks- home. Officers fired when they thought they into-racial-profiling-close-to- saw Martinez carrying a gun, but he actually home/-3/167/89183 just had a flashlight. The Sheriff's Office denies any wrongdoing on behalf of Border Patrol.

8 Roberto Pérez Pérez 63 1/13/2011 San Diego CA San Diego A man was beaten by officers for trying to re- https://www.texasobserver.or enter the U.S. at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, g/deadly-patrols-civilian- and died due to medical complications (an deaths-at-the-hands-of-us- infection) months later while still in detention. border-patrol-agents/ No investigation was opened upon the man's death. 7 Ramses Barron Torres 17 1/5/2011 Nogales AZ Tucson Ramses Barron Torres was shot and killed https://www.nbcnews.com/id after allegedly throwing rocks at Border Patrol /wbna40957106#.VtJAvHQr agents. Witnesses deny he threw rocks. The L-Z Department of Justice decided not to pursue criminal or civil charges against the Border Patrol agent responsible. 6 Juan Mendez, Jr. 18 10/5/2010 Eagle Pass TX Del Rio Juan Mendez Jr. was shot in the back twice https://revealnews.org/article- and killed by a Border Patrol agent after being legacy/border-patrol- involved in a car chase. Mendez was stopped shooting-under-scrutiny/ by the officer for driving with a "suspicious load" and took off running. He briefly struggled with the agent before the agent shot and killed him. Mendez's family sued the Border Patrol agent, but the Court of Appeals ruled that Poitevent was protected by qualified immunity and had not used excessive force. 5 Sergio Adrian Hernandez- 15 6/7/2010 El Paso TX El Paso Teenager Sergio Adrian Hernandez-Guereca https://www.pbs.org/newsho Guereca was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent ur/nation/supreme-court- after a group of suspected illegal immigrants rules-parents-of-slain- reportedly threw rocks at agents at an mexican-teenager-cannot- international bridge. The teenager was on sue-border-agent Mexican soil and the Border Patrol agent was 12 yards from the border on the U.S. side. The case was heard twice (2017 and 2019), and in both judgements the Fifth Circuit Court ruled that the agent should not be sued for his actions. The Supreme Court recently upheld the ruling by the Fifth Circuit in a 5-4 decision. 4 Anastasio Hernandez Rojas 42 5/28/2010 San Diego CA San Diego Longtime San Diego resident Anastasio https://www.sandiegouniontri Hernandez Rojas was tortured to death by bune.com/news/courts/sd- federal officers at a Border Patrol station for me-hernandez-settlement- resisting deportation. Rojas' five children were 20170302-story.html given a settlement of $1 million by the U.S. government in a lawsuit pertaining to use of force at the border. 3 Neil Begin 54 4/23/2010 Near Van Buren ME Houlton Border Patrol Agent Robert Kipler responded https://bangordailynews.com to a call for support by a Maine State Trooper /2010/07/27/news/bangor/st investigating an ongoing domestic dispute. ate-trooper-border-patrol- Kipler and the State Trooper entered the agent-justified-in-fatal- residence and confronted the subject, Neil shooting/ Begin, who appeared to be holding a bolt- action rifle. Kipler fired 14 shots and killed the Begin, who was pronounced dead at a hospital in Bangor, Maine the next morning. Attorney General Janet Mills ruled the shooting was justified.

2 Victor Santillan de la Cruz 36 3/31/2010 Laredo TX Laredo Victor Santilan de la Cruz was shot and killed OIG log Available At: during a struggle with a Border Patrol agent. https://s3.amazonaws.com/s 3.documentcloud.org/docu ments/400503/oig-page- 19.pdf

1 Jorge A. Solis-Palma 28 1/4/2010 Douglass AZ Tucson Jorge Solis-Palma was shot and killed by https://tucson.com/jorge- Border Patrol agent Torres-Vasquez after the alfredo-sol-s- man reportedly threw a rock and injured the palma/article_e968a9da- agent and the agent's dog. The incident was d195-11e8-9b56- captured on a surveillance camera. The cb746eb54781.html Cochise County's Attorney's Office dropped charges against Agent Torres-Vasquez two months after the incident.