Updated: July 28, 2021
# Name Age Date Location (STATE) Nationality Incident Type In Custody Off-Duty Firearm Wall-Related Car Chase Cross-Border Shooting Sector Incident Summary Media Source CBP Statement
177 Unknown Adult 7/25/2021 San Diego CA Mexican 1 San Diego According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents responded to reports of individuals om/speeches-and- attempting to cross the border wall near Otay Mesa Port statements/mexican-citizen- of Entry. Upon arrival, agents allegedly witnessed an dies-head-injury-after-falling- individual fall from the wall and requested emergency border-fence medical assistance for the individual, a Mexican man. The man was suffering from a severe head injury and was declared dead on the scen by the San Diego Fire Department emergency medical personnel.
The invident is being investigated by the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office and reviewed by the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility. The DHS Office of Inspector General was also notified.R7
176 Unknown Adult 7/17/2021 Brownsville TX Mexican 1. In custody 1 1 Rio Grande Valley According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, on https://www.valleycentral.co https://www.cbp.gov/newsro 2. Wall related June 16th, Border Patrol agents assigned to the m/news/local-news/migrant- om/speeches-and- Brownsville Station responed to a report of a person falling attempting-to-climb-border- statements/migrant-dies- from border fence near the Gateway International Port of fence-dies/ attempting-climb-border- Entry in Brownsville, TX. The injured man was transported fence-brownsville-texas by emergency medical services to a hospital in Harlingen, TX, where he tested positive for COVID-19 and then was transported to another hospital to undergo surgery. He did not regain consciousness following the administration of anesthesia and on July 16, 2021 was removed from life support and pronounced deceased by medical personnel. He was still considered to be under CBP custody at the time of death.
The incident is under review by the U.S. customs and Border Protection Office of Professional Responsibility. The DHS Office of Inspector General was notified.
175 Unknown Adult 6/26/2021 Boulevard CA San Diego According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Border Patrol agent conducted a vehicle stop near om/speeches-and- Boulevard, CA and found an unresponsive female in the statements/undocumented- backseat. The woman, a Mexican citizen, was transported migrant-found-unresponsive- to a local area hospital via helicopter where she was vehicle-near-boulevard-ca pronounced deceased.
The incident is under review by the San Diego Medical County Examiner's Office and the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General was also notified.
174 Unknown Adult 6/25/2021 Tucson AZ Mexican Tucson According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents assigned to the Brian A. Terry Border Patrol om/speeches-and- Station in the Tucson Sector (AZ), encountered a statements/mexican-man- distressed male Mexican citizen on June 23, 2021. The dies-heat-related-illness- agents allegedly called for emergency medical assistance, near-palominas-az who transported to the man to a hospital in Bisbee, AZ. On June 24, the man was transfered via air ambulance to the Tucson Medical Center. He was prounced deceased by medical staff on June 25, 2021.
The incident is under review by the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility. The DHS Office of Inspector General was also notified of the incident.
173 Unknown Adult 6/23/2021 Eagle Pass TX Guatemalan Del Rio According to local media, two Guatemalan men drowned https://news4sanantonio.co https://www.cbp.gov/newsro in a lake near Eagle Pass, TX while the group they were m/news/local/two-men-from- om/speeches-and- with attempted to flee from Border Patrol agents. guatemala-drowned-near- statements/cbp-statement- eagle-pass-after-border- undocumented-migrants- patrol-chase drown-near-eagle-pass-tx
172 Unknown Adult 6/23/2021 Eagle Pass TX Guatemalan Del Rio 171 Unknown Adult 6/23/2021 Palominas AZ Mexican Tucson According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents encountered a male Mexican citizen in om/speeches-and- distress near Palominas, AZ. The man was ultimately statements/mexican-man- transported by air ambulance to the Tucson medical dies-heat-related-illness- Center, where he was pronounced deceased by medical near-palominas-az staff.
The CBP Office of Professional Responsibility is reviewing the incident. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General was notified of the incident.
170 Unknown Adult 6/23/2021 Laredo TX Unknown Car Chase 1 Rio Grande Valley According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents were in pursuit of a vehicle in Laredo, TX. om/speeches-and- The vehicle in pursuit, a white pick up truck, collided with statements/correction-june- an SUV. Two of the ten occupants were declared 23-vehicle-accident-laredo- deceased at the scene. On June 25, 2021, a third texas occupant passed away at the University Hospital in San Antonio, TX.
The incident is under review by the Webb County MEdical Examiner's Office and CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility and being investigated by the Laredo Police Department.
169 Unknown Adult 6/23/2021 Laredo TX Unknown Car Chase 1 Rio Grande Valley
168 Unknown Adult 6/23/2021 Laredo TX Unknown Car Chase 1 Rio Grande Valley
167 Unknown Adult 6/17/2021 Lukeville AZ Car Chase 1 Tucson According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents near the Lukeville, AZ Port of Entry initiated om/speeches-and- a vehicle pursuit along Arizona State Route 85 and statements/failure-yield- deployed a vehicle immobilization device (VID). The VID results-death-0 caused the vehicle in pursuit to lose control and crash. One of the two occupants, a male Mexican citizen, was transported to a medical center in Goodyear, AZ to be treated for injuries. He was declared deceased on June 19, 2021.
The incident is under investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and being reviewed by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Professional Responsibility. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inpsector General was also notified.
166 Unknown Adult 6/13/2021 Deming NM Ecuadorian Car Chase 1 El Paso According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol Agents at the Deming, NM, U.S. Border Patrol om/speeches-and- Station initated a vehicle pursuit on two vehicles. At one statements/us-border-patrol- point in the 34 mile pursuit, four individuals jumped from failure-yield-incident-0 the moving vehicles. One of the indivudals, a female Ecuadorian citizen, was transported to University Medical Center in El Paso, TX to be treated for head injuries. She was declared deceased by hospital personnel on June 13, 2021.
165 Unknown Adult 6/10/2021 Brownsville TX Mexican Rio Grande Valley According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, agents https://www.cbp.gov/newsro from the Brownsville Border Patrol Station found a man om/speeches-and- who was unresponsive and exhibiting labored breathing. statements/death-custody- The man, a Mexican Citizen, was transported to the rgv Valley Regional Medical Center for treatment. he was pronounced deceased by hospital staff on July 10, 2021. 164 Unknown Adult 6/7/2021 A rvic a AZ Mexican In custody 1 Tucson According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents located two migrants who had allegedly om/speeches-and- fallen off a rockface in Arivaca, Arizona. One of the statements/cbp-statement- migrants suffered multiple injuries and the other, a female suspected-migrant-found- Mexican citizen, was declared dead on the scene. deceased-after-falling
The incident was under review by the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Professional Responsibility. The investigation was reported by CBP as a "death in custody" on June 30, 2021.
163 Unknown Adult 6/1/2021 Sierra Blanca TX Unknown Car Chase 1 El Paso According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents were involved in a failure to yield that om/speeches-and- resulted in one fatality. statements/failure-yield- results-death-near-sierra- The invident is under investigation by the CBP Office of blanca-texas Professional Responsibility and no additional information is available at the time of the statement.
162 Unknown Adult 5/26/2021 Carrizo Springs TX Mexican Del Rio According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents at the Carrizo Springs Station were notified om/speeches-and- of a 911 call reporting that two individuals had been statements/custody-death attacked by bees.At arrival, agents reportedly found that a male Mexican Citizen was unresponsive. The man was transported to the San Antonio Methodist Hospital and pronounced dead by hospital staff on May 26, 2021.
The incident is under review by the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office and CBP Office of Professional Responsibility.
161 Unknown Adult 5/15/2021 Campo TX Mexican Firearm 1 San Diego According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Border Patrol agent attempted a vehicle stop in Campo, om/speeches-and- California on May 14, 2021. The vehicle reportedly failed to statements/agent-involved- yield and later stopped in a gas station parking lot. Three fatal-shooting-campo- Border Patrol agents discharged their firearms in an california alleged confrontation and struck the driver. The man was transported to a local hospital and was pronounced dead after arrival.
The invident is under investigation by the Sheriff's Department and under review by the San Diego COunty Medical Examiner's Office, the FBI and CBP Office of Professional Responsibility.
160 Unknown Adult 5/1/2021 Kingsville TX Honduran Car Chase 1 RGV According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, two https://www.cbp.gov/newsro migrants were run over by a Border Patrol vehicle in om/speeches-and- Kenedy County on April 29, 2021. A male Honduran statements/honduran- national, died on the scene as a result of his injuries. national-dies-vehicle- incident-near-kingsville- The incident is under review by the Kenedy County texas Sheriff's Office and the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility.
159 Unknown 4/25/2021 Hebbronville TX Mexican 1. In custody Laredo According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection,on April https://www.cbp.gov/newsro 11, Border Patrol Agents assigned to Hebbronville, TX om/speeches-and- found a Mexican male suffering from a head injury and statements/male-mexican- allegedly contacted emergency medical services. The man citizen-found-suffering-head- was air lifted to a hospital in San Antonio, TX. He was injury declared deceased by hospital staff on April 25th.
The incident was indicated as a death in custody on July 1, 2021, after being reviewed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Professional Responsibility.
1 158 Unknown Unknown 4/18/2021 San Manuel TX Unknown RGV According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Border Patrol agent initiated a traffic stop near Sn Manuel, om/speeches-and- Texas. At the time of the stop, several occupants statements/fleeing-suspect- reportedly fled the vehicle. One of the fleeing occupants struck-and-killed-vehicle- reportedly was crossing the highway and was struck and near-san-manuel-texas killed by a civilian vehicle.
THe incident is under review by the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Hidalgo County Medical Examiner and Coroner's Office, and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Professional Responsibility. 157 Unknown Adult 4/16/2021 Hidalgo TX Honduran In Custody 1 According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents responded to reports of medical distress om/speeches-and- near the Rio Grande in Hidalgo, Texas on April 15th. statements/custody-death- Agents encountered a woman who was incoherrent and female-honduran-rio-grande- required medical assistance. She was travelling with an valley-texas adult daughter and two younger children. Border Patrol agents allegedly requested Emergencvy Medical Services, after which she was transported to a nearby medical center. Medical personnel announced that the woman had passed away on April 165th at 4:30pm.
Her daughter and two children were in CBP custody at the date of this statement. THe incident is being reviewed by the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility.
156 Unknown Unknown 4/17/2021 Hebbronville TX Unknown Laredo According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents initiated a traffic stop on April 15, 2021 on a om/speeches-and- pick up truck that was allegedly containing multiple people statements/cbp-statement- laying down in the bed of the vehicle. Agents and death-custody-near- personnel from the Texas Department of Public Safety hebbronville-tx foind a man in medical distress in the truck. He was transported to a hospital in Alice, TX and pronounced dead.
155 Unknown 24 4/3/2021 Yuma County AZ Mexican Yuma According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Yuma County Sheriff's Office (YSCO) received an om/speeches-and- emergency call reporting that three individuals were in statements/cbp-statement- medical distress. YSCO officers, Border Patrol Agents death-arizona-not-custody and Border Patrol's Search and Rescue Team members (aboard Arizona National Guard helicopter) arrived at the scene where a 24-year-old female Mexican Citizen was already deceased. The other two surviving individuals were taken into Border Patrol custody.
The incident is under review by YSCO, the Tuma County MEdical Examiner's Office and the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility.
154 Unknown 29 3/27/2021 Tucson AZ Guatemalan In Custody 1 Tucson A 29-year-old Guatmelan man was apprehended by U.S. https://fronterasdesk.org/co https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Border Patrol agents in Casa Grande, AZ on March 25th. ntent/1670458/man-dies- om/speeches-and- He allegedly began showing signs of distress at the border-patrol-custody- statements/cbp-statement- Tucson Coordination Center the following day,March 26th, tucson tucson-sector-custody- and went into cardiac arrest after emergency medical death 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 1 Rio Grande Valley According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents in Hidalgo, TX encountered a pregnant om/speeches-and- woman in need of medical care near the Rio Grande. She statements/rgv-statement- was transported to a local hospital where she gave birth hospitalized-migrant-who- prematurely and the newborn passed away from gave-birth-prematurely complications.
152 Unknown N/A 3/10/2021 Eagle Pass TX In Custody 1 Del Rio According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an https://www.cbp.gov/newsro (adult) adult male began exhibiting signs of medical distress om/speeches-and- while in Border Patrol custody in Eagle Pass, TX. The man statements/cbp-statement- passed away shortly after Border Patrol agents and death-custody-eagle-pass-tx 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 Firearm 1 Rio Grande Valley According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a https://www.cbp.gov/newsro (adult) Border Patrol agent discharged his weapon while arresting om/speeches-and- an adult male. The male sustained a gunshot wound and statements/update-cbp- was transported to a local hospital where he was statement-agent-involved- pronounced deceased at 9:00a.m. on January 29, 2021. fatal-shooting-hidalgo-tx.
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 Guatemalan Laredo According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection , https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Border Patrol agents on observation duties on December om/speeches-and- 17, 2020 witnessed two individuals struck by a civilian statements/statement-us- vehicle on U.S. Highway 83 South. Both individuals were customs-and-border- transported toa local hospital for medical treatment. On protection-1 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 Unknown San Diego According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an https://www.cbp.gov/newsro POE adult male traveling northbound from Mexico in a grey om/speeches-and- sedan collided with a metal arm gate at the San Ysidro statements/incident-san- Port of Entry around 2p.m. on December 22, 2020. ysidro-port-entry-results- fatality California Highway Patrol is investigating the incident.
148 Unknown N/A 12/16/2020 Las Cruces NM Unknown Car Chase 1 El Paso According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro (adult) Patrol agents assigned to the El Paso Sector engaged in om/speeches-and- a vehicle pursuit near Las Cruces, New Mexico after an statements/cbp-statement- individual failed to yield at a Border Patrol checkpoint. agent-involved-shooting-new- During the vehicle pursuit, agents returned fire after the mexico 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 Unknown Del Rio According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, on- https://www.cbp.gov/newsro (adult) duty Border Patrol agents allegedly heard the sound of a om/speeches-and- tractor trailor break near Texas Highway 90, around statements/incident- midnight on December 15, 2020. The agents responded to statement-regarding-fatality- the location, where they found an unidentified individual hwy-90 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 Unknown Car Chase 1 El Centro According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a U.S. https://www.cbp.gov/newsro (adult) Border Patrol agent at the Calexico Border Patrol Station om/speeches-and- struck and injured a man with his vehile while responding statements/cbp-statement- to a report of illegal entry into the United States. agent-involved-collision- Emergency medical services transported the injured man death-calexico 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 Unknown Laredo According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection , a https://www.cbp.gov/newsro (adult) vehicle failed to stop for secondary inspection at the om/speeches-and- Interstate 35 U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on the evening statements/initial-statement- of Sunday, November 1st. The driver allegedly exited the regarding-fatality-north- vehicle and ran across the median where they were struck interstate-35-us-border by a vehicle and died on the scene.
144 Unknown N/A (adult) 10/24/2020 Laredo TX Unknown Firearm 1 Laredo U.S. Border Patrol agents were investigating a report of https://www.nytimes.com/2 "human smuggling" on October 23rd when they 020/10/25/us/border-patrol- encountered a tractor-trailer of folks suspected to be shooting-texas.html 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 Mexican Firearm 1 San Diego According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the https://www.nbcsandiego.co https://www.cbp.gov/newsro San Diego Police Department, a U.S. Border Patrol agent m/news/local/us-border- om/speeches-and- was tracking an undocumented adult Mexican male near patrol-involved-in-shooting-in- statements/update-full-cbp- the port of entry at San Ysidro, CA. The Border Patrol san-ysidro/2430349/ statement-agent-involved- agent and the man got into a fight, during which the Border fatal-shooting-san-diego 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 Mexican Laredo According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a 36- https://www.cbp.gov/newsro year-old man was found unresponsive on October 15th, om/speeches-and- 2020, in a group of four undocumented immigrants. The statements/cbp-statement- man was transported to Laredo Medical Center, but his regarding-death-custody- condition worsened while at the hospital and he passed laredo away on October 17th. 141 Nora Martinez 58 23-Sept-20 El Paso TX US 1. Firearm 1 1 El Paso Mark Martinez, a retired Border Patrol agent, shot and https://kvoa.com/news/2020 2. Off-Duty killed his wife Norma Martinez on September 23rd. Norma /09/25/southern-arizona- was found in her home in El Paso. Mark was linked to a connection-in-el-paso- double homicide in 1994, but never received charges for couples-apparent-murder- his involvement in the murders. Mark was found dead from suicide/ a self-inflicted wound in a field in New Mexico later that week.
140 Unknown 30 9/21/2020 Tucson AZ Mexican 1. In Custody 1 0 Tucson A 30-year-old man began showing symptoms of https://apnews.com/article/t https://www.cbp.gov/newsro 2. Medical dehydration at a U.S. Border Patrol centralized processing ucson-border-patrols-arizona- om/speeches-and- facility on Sunday, September 20th. The man was archive- statements/cbp-statement- transported to a Tucson hospital, where he died the 36ea3048306b92bc31d4525 regarding-death-custody- morning after. 74a754a05 arizona
139 Unknown N/A 9/21/2020 Nogales AZ Unknown Firearm Tucson According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Border Patrol agent was trailing a group of undocumented om/speeches-and- immigrants with intent to apprehend them when one of the statements/cbp-statement- migrants, armed with a knife, stabbed the agent multiple regarding-stabbing-border- times. The agent shot and killed the individual in response. patrol-agent-and-death
1 138 Unknown N/A (adult) 8/24/2020 Edinburg TX Mexican 1. In Custody Rio Grande Valley According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, on July https://www.cbp.gov/newsro 2. Medical (COVID) 18th, 2020, Border Patrol agents apprehended an adult om/speeches-and- Mexican national who then stated that he felt ill. The man statements/cbp-statement- was transported to a hospital, where medical personnel regarding-passing-mexican- determined the man tested positive for COVID-19. The national-due-covid man passed away due to the coronavirus on August 24th.
0 137 Unknown 37 8/17/2020 Deming NM Ecuadorian El Paso Border Patrol agents responded to a call of a woman in https://www.elpasotimes.co “dire medical distress” in Deming, New Mexico. She was m/story/news/local/new- transported to a Deming hospital, where she later died. mexico/2020/08/19/ecuador- Her cause of death has not been released (as of 9/05/20). migrant-dies-after-found- border-patrol-deming-new- mexico- desert/5605302002/?utm_ca mpaign=snd- autopilot&cid=twitter_elpaso times
0 136 Unknown 33 8/1/2020 Yuma AZ Mexican Wall Related Yuma A Mexican man was transported to a Yuma, Arizona https://www.cbp.gov/newsro hospital after encountering Border Patrol agents on July om/speeches-and- 26, 2020, claiming he had sustained injuries from falling off statements/cbp-statement- the border wall. He died at a local hospital on August 1, regarding-death-custody- 2020. yuma-az-0
1 135 Unknown N/A 7/26/2020 Del Rio TX Car Chase Del Rio An undisclosed number of people died and others https://www.cbp.gov/newsro sustained serious injuries after a vehicle roll over near Del om/speeches-and- Rio, TX where Border Patrol agents conducted a high- statements/cbp-statement- speed chase in an attempt to initiate a vehicle stop. accident-fatalities
1 134 Unknown N/A 7/9/2020 La Grulla TX Unknown Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents encountered a group of migrants near https://www.cbp.gov/newsro La Grulla, Texas on July 5, 2020 and rendered aid to a om/speeches-and- woman who was semi-responsive. She was transported to statements/unidentified- a local hospital, sedated, and placed on a ventilator. She woman-encountered-agents- passed away days later. passes-away-south-texas
133 Unknown N/A 7/9/2020 Calexico PoE CA Unknown Firearm El Centro A CBP officer and contracted security guard fired their https://www.cbp.gov/newsro weapons at a man who was allegedly brandishing a knife om/speeches-and- at the international border line at the pedestrian statements/cbp-statement- processing building for the Calexico West Port of Entry. officer-involved-fatal-shooting- The man was fatally shot and pronounced dead at the calexico-west-port scene.
1 132 Unknown 39 7/7/2020 Laredo TX Mexican Laredo Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector allegedly https://www.cbp.gov/newsro responded to a report of a man in distress on July 6, 2020. om/speeches-and- The man was transported to a local hospital where he died statements/cbp-statement- several days later. The cause and date of death have not regarding-death-custody- been disclosed (as of 9/05/20). south-texas
131 Unknown 23 7/6/2020 Laredo TX Laredo Border Patrol agents responded to reports of an https://www.cbp.gov/newsro unresponsive man laying on the side of the road near om/speeches-and- Roma, TX on July 4, 2020. The man was transported to a statements/cbp-statement- Laredo hospital where he went into cardiac arrest and died regarding-death-custody- on July 7, 2020. south-texas-0
130 Santos Porfirio-Garcia 32 6/25/2020 El Paso TX Guatemalan Car Chase El Paso A Border Patrol high-speed vehicle chase of a 10 https://www.elpasotimes.co https://www.cbp.gov/newsro passenger vehicle resulted in a crash in Downtown El m/story/news/local/el- om/speeches-and- Paso. Seven of the occupants died at the scene and the paso/2020/06/25/seven-die- statements/cbp-statement- other three were hospitalized. three-hurt-in-downtown-el- el-paso-accident-fatalities paso-crash-during-border- patrol-chase/3257704001/
1 129 Yadira Barrera 16 6/25/2020 El Paso TX U.S. / El Paso 1. Car Chase El Paso Resident 2. Minor 3. LPR
1 128 Unknown 19 6/25/2020 El Paso TX U.S. / El Paso 1. Car Chase El Paso Resident 2. LPR
1 127 Liliana Jimenez 16 6/25/2020 El Paso TX U.S. / El Paso 1. Car Chase El Paso Resident 2. Minor 3. LPR
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126 Elvira Tot-Chiroy 19 6/25/2020 El Paso TX Guatemalan Car Chase El Paso
1 125 Oscar Miguel Garcia-Bran 21 6/25/2020 El Paso TX Guatemalan Car Chase El Paso
1 124 Gustavo Cervantes 18 6/25/2020 El Paso TX U.S. 1. Car Chase El Paso 2. U.S. Citizen
1 123 Unknown N/A 6/2/2020 Douglas AZ Car Chase Tucson Border Patrol agents from the Douglas Station in Arizona https://www.azcentral.com/ https://www.cbp.gov/newsro deployed a tire deflation device during a high-speed vehicle story/news/local/arizona/20 om/speeches-and- chase of a 5 passenger vehicle. The vehicle lost control 20/06/05/two-die-after-border- statements/arizona-alien- and rolled over, resulting in the death of two occupants at patrol-chase-near- smuggling-incident-results- the scene; two others were airlifted to a Tucson area douglas/3160043001/ deaths hospital and the final was treated and released to Border Patrol custody.
1 122 Unknown N/A 6/2/2020 Douglas AZ U.S. 1. Car Chase Tucson 2. LPR
1 121 Guadalupe David de Luna 43 4/15/2020 Laredo TX U.S. 1. Firearm Laredo An off-duty CBP officer, Ernesto Gillen was charged with https://www.cbp.gov/newsro 2. Off-Duty the murder Laredo Fire Department firefighter, Guadalupe https://abcnews.go.com/US om/speeches-and- David de Luna. Gillen fatally shot De Luna during a /wireStory/border-agent- statements/statement-us- domestic altercation. arrested-fatal-shooting-texas- customs-and-border- firefighter-70214710 protection-0
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120 Unknown 61 3/30/2020 San Ysidro CA U.S. 1. In Custody San Diego A man was detained at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in the https://www.latimes.com/cal https://www.cbp.gov/newsro 2. U.S. Citizen evening of March 29, 2020 and ensued in a struggle with ifornia/story/2020-03-30/u-s- om/speeches-and- CBP officers before being moved to a detention area, citizen-61-dies-in-custody-at- statements/cbp-statement- where he developed difficulty breathing and became san-ysidro-border-crossing regarding-death-custody-san- unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at the scene on ysidro-port-entry March 30, 2020.
1 119 Unknown N/A 3/28/2020 Yuma Area AZ Unknown Car Chase Yuma Border Patrol agents conducted a high-speed chase of a https://www.cbp.gov/newsro two passenger vehicle on Interstate 8. The vehicle lost om/speeches-and- control and rolled over; the two occupants succumbed to statements/cbp-statement- their injuries and died at the scene. yuma-area-rollover-accident- fatalities-0
1 118 Unknown N/A 3/28/2020 Yuma Area AZ Unknown Car Chase Yuma
1 117 Unknown N/A 3/25/2020 El Paso TX Unknown 1. In Custody El Paso An armed person was located after agents from the Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro 2. Firearm Patrol’s Special Operations Group in El Paso, Texas om/speeches-and- responded to an assistance request from El Paso County statements/cbp-statement- Sheriff’s Office (EPCSO). A man was shot during an march-24-shooting-el-paso exchange of fire with Border Patrol agents and EPCSO deputies. He was transported to a local hospital where he later died.
1 1 116 Unknown N/A 3/20/2020 Cuevitas TX Mexican In Custody Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents from the Rio Grande Valley Sector https://www.cbp.gov/newsro detained a man in a Border Patrol vehicle, where he was om/speeches-and- found unresponsive shortly after. He was pronounced dead statements/cbp-statement- at the scene. The cause of death has not been released regarding-death-mexican- (as of 9/13/2020) citizen
1 115 Unknown 19 3/7/2020 Clint TX Guatemalan 1. Wall Related El Paso A pregnant woman, who had allegedly fallen from the https://www.washingtonpost 2. In Custody border wall, was encountered by El Paso Sector Border .com/immigration/pregnant- Patrol agents in Clint, TX on March 7, 2020. She was woman-dies-border- transported to a local hospital to undergo emergency wall/2020/03/12/8519752a- medical assistance, including a C-section. Her unborn 647b-11ea-912d- child did not survive and the woman was pronounced dead d98032ec8e25_story.html on March 10, 2020.
1 1 https://www.cbp.gov/newsro om/speeches-and- statements/cbp-statement- regarding-death-guatemalan- citizen
114 James Paul Markowitz 32 2/4/2020 Bracketville TX U.S. 1. In Custody Del Rio James Paul Markowitz began showing signs of distress https://www.buzzfeednews. 2. U.S. Citizen after being arrested by Border Patrol agents in com/article/hamedaleaziz/u Brackettville, Texas. Markowitz was transported to a local s-citizen-dies-border-patrol- hospital, where he was pronounced dead by medical arrest personnel.
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113 Unknown 41 12/25/2019 Laredo TX Congolese In Custody Laredo A Congolese woman presented herself for admission into https://thehill.com/policy/int the U.S. at the Gateway to the Americas Bridge in Laredo, ernational/human- Texas on December 24, 2019. She complained to CBP rights/475999-congolese- officers of abdominal pain and vomiting after being held for migrant-dies-after-night-in- processing overnight at the Juarez Lincoln Bridge. She cbp-facility was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead on December 25, 2019.
1 https://www.cbp.gov/newsro om/speeches-and- statements/statement-death- congolese-national-laredo 112 Unknown 42 12/21/2019 La Villa TX Mexican In Custody Rio Grande Valley CBP officers took a man into custody on December 20, https://www.krgv.com/news/ 2020 at the Hidalgo Port of Entry. He died on December cbp-investigating-possible- 21, 2019 in a suspected suicide at the Hidalgo Detention suicide-of-mexican-national- Center, a county jail. (no confirmation as of 2/12/2020). at-jail-in-hidalgo-county/
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111 Unknown 11/3/2019 Sunland Park NM Unknown Firearm El Paso A Border Patrol agent returned fire on a group of people https://www.nbcnews.com/n near the U.S. Mexico Border in Sunland Park, fatally ews/us-news/border-patrol- shooting a man. The man was transported to a local agent-fatally-shoots-gunman- hospital, where he was pronounced dead. who-opened-fire-n1076226
1 https://www.cbp.gov/newsro om/speeches-and- statements/cbp-statement- november-4-el-paso-sector- shooting
110 Unknown 33 10/26/2019 Tubac AZ Mexican In Custody Tucson On October 13, 2020, Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents https://www.cbp.gov/newsro responded to a request for medical aid by the Santa Cruz om/local-media- County Sheriff’s deputy for a woman near Tubac, AZ. The release/woman-passes- woman was transported to a nearby hospital, where she away-arizona-hospital later died on October 26, 2019
1 https://thehill.com/latino/467 878-mexican-woman-who- was-in-border-patrol-custody- dies
109 Unknown 49 10/21/2019 Tucson AZ Mexican In Custody Tucson After being apprehended by Border Patrol agents near https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Casa Grande, Arizona, a man was transported to a om/speeches-and- Tucson area hospital where he died on October 21, 2019. statements/cbp-statement- death-custody
1 https://www.usatoday.com/ story/news/nation/2019/10/2 3/mexican-migrant-border- patrol-custody- dies/4070444002/
108 Unknown 32 8/1/2019 Lordsburg NM Salvadoran In Custody El Paso Border Patrol agents apprehended a man and his 8-year- https://www.cbp.gov/node/3 old daughter and transported them to the El Paso Border 51227 Patrol Station before transferring them to the Lordsburg Border Patrol Station, where the man collapsed. He died while being airlifted to a hospital.
1 107 Unknown 52 7/5/2019 Tucson AZ Nicaraguan In Custody Tucson A man was transported to a local hospital after falling into https://www.huffpost.com/en medical distress during processing at a Border Patrol try/nicaraguan-man-dies- facility, where attempts to revive him were unsuccessful. immigration- custody_n_5d1ff2bde4b04c4 814141258
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106 Travis James Eckstein 23 6/3/2019 San Ysidro CA U.S. 1. Firearm San Diego Travis James Eckstein, a U.S. citizen, allegedly refused to https://ktla.com/2019/06/04/ 2. U.S. Citizen stop his vehicle for officers at the San Ysidro Port of Entry border-agents-kill-man- before being blocked by another vehicle in the inspection during-shootout-at-san- area. Eckstein exchanged fire with CBP officers and was ysidro-port-of-entry/ fatally shot, dying at the scene.
1 https://www.cbp.gov/newsro om/speeches-and- statements/cbp-statement- june-3-shooting-san-ysidro- update
105 Unknown 40 6/3/2019 Eagle Pass TX Honduran In Custody Del Rio Border Patrol agents apprehended a woman and detained https://www.cnn.com/2019/ her at the Eagle Pass South Station where she collapsed. 06/03/politics/third-death-at- She was transported to a local hospital where she was border/index.html pronounced dead.
1 https://www.cbp.gov/newsro om/speeches-and- statements/cbp-statement- death-custody-40-year-old- honduran-woman-passes- away
104 Unknown 33 6/3/2019 Roma TX Salvadoran In Custody Rio Grande Valley A man allegedly suffered a seizure after being https://www.themonitor.com apprehended by Border Patrol agents. He was transported /2019/06/03/cbp-confirms- to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. death-el-salvadoran-man- seeking-asylum/
1 https://www.cbp.gov/newsro om/speeches-and- statements/cbp-statement- death-custody-33-year-old- salvadoran-man-passes- away
103 Carlos Gregorio Hernandez 16 5/20/2019 Weslaco TX Guatemalan 1. Minor Rio Grande Valley A 16-year-old boy was apprehended by Border Patrol https://www.buzzfeednews. Vasquez 2. In Custody agents on May 13, 2019 and transferred to an Office of com/article/hamedaleaziz/g Refugee Resettlement youth center. A week later, he was uatemalan-migrant-died- transferred to a Border Patrol station in Weslaco, Texas border-patrol-government after being determined to have had the flu. He was found dead in his cell on May 20, 2019.
1 https://www.cbp.gov/newsro om/speeches-and- statements/statement-loss- life-rgv-sector
102 Unknown 2 5/14/2019 El Paso TX Guatemalan 1. Minor El Paso **** RELEASED FROM CBP **** https://www.washingtonpost 2. In Custody **** DIED IN ICE CUSTODY**** .com/immigration/toddler- A 2 ½-year-old boy and his mother were apprehended by apprehended-at-the-us- Border Patrol on April 3, before being transported to a mexico-border-dies-after- nearby hospital three days later. On April 7, he was weeks-in- transported to a hospital in El Paso, Texas where he hospital/2019/05/15/f69f852 remained for several weeks with a form of pneumonia 2-7755-11e9-bd25- before dying on May 13, 2019. c989555e7766_story.html?u tm_term=.c81dec394e40
1 101 Juan de Leon Gutierrez 16 4/30/2019 Brownsville TX Guatemalan 1. Minor Rio Grande Valley ***RELEASED FROM CBP CUSTODY*** https://www.buzzfeednews. 2. In Custody **** DIED IN ORR CUSTODY **** com/article/hamedaleaziz/u A 16-year-old boy was apprehended by Border Patrol naccompanied-immigrant- agents in El Paso, Texas on April 19, 2019 before being boy-dies-us-custody 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.
1 100 Unknown 4/6/2019 Santa Teresa NM Unknown Car Chase El Paso During a high-speed chase of an 11 passenger vehicle, https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Border Patrol agents laid out a spike strip in an attempt to om/local-media-release/el- stop a vehicle. As a result, the vehicle rolled over several paso-border-patrol-agents- times killing two of the occupants and injuring five who apprehend-nine-vehicle- were transported to a local hospital. failed-yield-new 1 99 Unknown 4/6/2019 Santa Teresa NM Unknown Car Chase El Paso
1 98 Unkown 40 3/18/2019 El Paso TX Mexican In Custody El Paso An unknown 40-year-old man of Mexican descent died at https://www.cnn.com/2019/ Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas after being 03/19/us/migrant-death- diagnosed with flu-like symptoms, liver and renal failure. customs-and-border- The man was apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border protection/index.html Protection near the Bridge of the Americas in El Paso on March 17, 2019.
1 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 Mexican In Custody Rio Grande Valley An unknwon migrant was detained by U.S. Customs and https://edition.cnn.com/201 Border Protection on February 2nd, 2019 near a port of 9/02/18/us/customs-and- entry in Roma, Texas. The individual allegedly requested border-protection-custody- medical attention on both February 2nd and February 3rd, death/index.html 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.
1 96 Felipe Alonozo- Gomez 8 12/24/2018 Alomogordo NM Guatemalan 1. Minor El Paso Felipe Alonzo-Gomez and his father were apprehended by https://www.thecut.com/201 2. In Custody the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in El Paso, 8/12/felipe-alonzo-gomez- Texas on December 18, 2018. Following their transfer to a cbp-death-reports.html border station in Alomogordo, New Mexico, Felipe 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 E ve.
1 https://www.dhs.gov/news/2 018/12/25/guatemalan- national-passes-away-gerald- champion-regional-medical- center-alamogordo
95 Jakelin Caal Maquin 7 12/7/2018 South of Lordsburg NM Guatemalan 1. Minor 1 El Paso Jakelin Caal Maquin and her father Nery Caal crossed the https://www.washingtonpost 2. In Custody US-Mexico border in New Mexico on December 6, 2018, .com/world/national- where they reached Border Patrol agents and turned security/7-year-old-migrant- themselves in. Shortly after, Jakelin became ill and lost girl-taken-into-border-patrol- consciousness. She was airlifted to Providence Children's custody-dies-of-dehydration- Hospital in El Paso, Texas where she died on December exhaustion/2018/12/13/8909 7, 2018, less than 24 hours after being transported. e356-ff03-11e8-862a- b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?ut m_term=.722381ed4a87
https://www.nytimes.com/2 018/12/15/us/migrant-girl- border-patrol-jakelin.html
94 Unknown N/A 11/27/2018 Near San Diego CA N/A Car Chase San Diego On November 27th, 2018, the U.S. Border Patrol chased a https://www.cnn.com/2018/ truck carrying 11 passengers in San Diego, California. 12/01/us/california-border- During the high-speed chase, which began at Interstate 8, patrol-deadly- U.S. Border Patrol laid spike strips on the road in an crash/index.html attempt to stop a vehicle. Upon passing over the spikes, the truck crashed and rolled over, resulting in the death of three people. 1 93 Unknown N/A 11/28/2018 Near San Diego CA N/A Car Chase San Diego 1 92 Unknown N/A 11/29/2018 Near San Diego CA N/A Car Chase San Diego 1 91 Unknown N/A September, 2018 Laredo TX N/A 1. Off- Duty Laredo Supervisory US Border Patrol agent Juan David Ortiz was https://www.washingtonpost 2. Firearm arrested on September 15, 2018. The agent, labeled as a .com/nation/2018/09/16/wo serial killer, was accused of killing four people after a mans-daring-escape-border- would-be fifth victim narrowly escaped harm and alerted a patrol-agent-helped-reveal- police officer. Ortiz is currently being tried for the murders serial-killer-police- he committed. say/?noredirect=on&utm_ter 90 Nikki Enriguez 28 9/14/2018 Laredo TX N/A 1. Off- Duty Laredo m=.9d86350a35f3 2. Firearm
89 Claudine Anne Luera 42 9/13/2018 Laredo TX N/A 1. Off- Duty Laredo 2. Firearm 3. U.S. Citizen
88 Melissa Ramirez 29 9/3/2018 Laredo TX N/A 1. Off- Duty Laredo 2. Firearm 3. U.S. Citizen
87 Unkown N/A 6/17/2018 Big Wells TX N/A Car Chase Laredo US Border Patrol agents chased an SUV carrying 14 https://www.npr.org/2018/06 1 people on a rural road about 125 miles southwest of San /18/620933918/at-least-5-
86 Unkown N/A 6/17/2018 Big Wells TX N/A Car Chae Laredo Antonio. Dimmit County Sheriff Marion Boyd alleged that dead-after-border-patrol-car- the vehicle ran off the road, caught gravel, tried to chase-ends-with-a-crash-in- recorrect, and as a result turned over several times, texas resulting in the deaths of five of the passengers. 1 85 Unkown N/A 6/17/2018 Big Wells TX N/A Car Chase Laredo
1 84 Unkown N/A 6/17/2018 Big Wells TX N/A Car Chase Laredo
1 83 Unkown N/A 6/17/2018 Big Wells TX N/A Car Chase Laredo
1 82 Claudia Patricia Gomez 20 5/23/2018 Rio Bravo TX Guatemalan Firearm Laredo According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a https://abcnews.go.com/Pol Gonzalez Border Patrol agent shot and killed Claudia after a group of itics/border-patrol-agent-kills- migrants (which included Claudia) had attempted to cross woman-attempting-cross- the Texas border illegally and allegedly rushed the agent texas/story?id=55457805 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.
1 81 Robert Young III 29 Febrary 12, 2018 Pinecrest FL N/A 1. Firearm Miami A burglar broke through the glass doors of a house in the https://www.miamiherald.co 2. Off-Duty upscale village of Pinecrest (in Florida) on February 12th, m/news/local/community/mi 2018. The burglar was shot and killed by the homeowner, ami- a high-ranking Miami CBP officer. dade/article199617879.html
1 1 80 Juan Daniel Jacques 33 January, 2018 Socorro TX N/A 1. Firearm El Paso Juan Daniel Jacques attacked an off-duty officer and the https://kfoxtv.com/news/loc 2. Off-Duty agent fired his weapon in response, shooting and killing al/off-duty-el-paso-border- Jacques. agent-shot-attacker-in- defense-say-deputies
1 1 79 Rolando Chavez Chavez 26 Nov. 29, 2017 Tucson AZ Guatemalan Firearm Tucson According to U.S. Border Patrol, Chávez attacked an https://tucson.com/news/loc agent while being taken into custody. A struggle ensued al/man-shot-in-struggle-with- where Chávez grabbed the agent's gun. A second officer border-agent-id-ed- shot and killed Chavez during the struggle. The Tohono as/article_d09981f3-cf5c- O'odham Police are still investigating the incident. 53f0-8ff7-ae719b43c29f.html
1 78 Unknown 1 N/A 9/17/2017 San Ysidro CA Unknown Car Chase San Diego Two unknown mirgrants were hit by a Chevy Trailblazer http://www.latimes.com/loca while crossing the highway, after they left a van crossing l/lanow/la-me-ln-fatal-border- into the U.S. The seven other occupants of the van were crossing-20170917- detained shortly afterwards by the U.S. Border Patrol story.html agents.
1 77 Unknown 2 N/A San Ysidro CA Unknown Car Chase San Diego
1 76 Rodolfo Ballardo 31 9/13/2017 Southwest of Tucson AZ U.S. 1. Firearm Tucson Authorities say that, after getting pulled over by a DPS https://www.azcentral.com/ 2. U.S. Citizen trooper, Ballardo shot at the trooper and fled the scene by story/news/local/arizona- car. Ballardo was shot an unknown number of times by breaking/2017/09/14/arizona- Border Patrol agents and injured during a shootout at a interstate-10-deadly- gas station in Quartzsite. Ballardo later died from his shootout-suspect-identified- injuries at a local hospital. rodolfo-ballard/667140001/
1 75 Raul Quiroz 20 8/10/2017 San Diego CA Mexican Car Chase San Diego U.S. Border Patrol agents engaged an SUV in a high- https://www.nbcsandiego.co speed chase after claiming the license plate was thought m/news/local/Authorities- to have been connected to a homicide investigation and Identify-3-Killed-in-Border- human smuggling operations. During the chase, the SUV Patrol-Pursuit-Crash-on-I-15- went over the side of the interstate, flipped, and crashed, 442814733.html killing three of the four people in the car. U.S. Customs and Border Protections later confirmed none of the people 1 in the vehicle were wanted in a homicide investigation. 74 Gloria Lopez-Lopez 15 San Diego CA Mexican Car Chase San Diego The subsequent California Highway Patrol report on the incident blamed the driver (Raul) for the deaths. 1 73 Israel Caballero 18 San Diego CA U.S. Car Chase San Diego
1 72 Unknown N/A 5/5/2017 I-25 Border Patrol NM Unknown Firearm El Paso An unknown man shot at Border Patrol agents during a https://www.lcsun- Checkpoint (N of Las secondary inspection at the Las Cruces Immigration news.com/story/news/local/ Cruces) Checkpoint on I-25. Agents returned fire at the man, 2017/05/05/man-shot-border- whose condition was unknown, and subsequently checkpoint-dies/101353470/ 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.
1 http://www.lcsun- news.com/story/news/local/ 2017/05/05/man-shot-border- checkpoint-dies/101353470/
71 Unknown N/A 4/4/2017 I-10 Border Patrol NM Unknown Car Chase El Paso New Mexico State Police claim that the driver of a vehicle https://www.elpasotimes.co Checkpoint (W of Las suspected in a road rage incident became argumentative m/story/news/immigration/2 Cruces) with Border Patrol agents at the I-10 Border Patrol 019/04/07/border-patrol- Checkpoint. The vehicle's tires were punctured by spike chase-ends-crash-2- strips, and the driver subsequently drove across the migrants-killed-new- median from the westbound lanes into eastbound lanes, mexico/3394408002/ 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.
1 http://www.lcsun- news.com/story/news/local/ 2017/05/05/man-shot-border- checkpoint-dies/101353470/
70 Clarence Duane Huderle 73 3/20/2017 Warren MN Unknown Firearm Houlton Clarence Duane Huderle, an elderly man from Minnesota, http://www.grandforksherald. fired at a mail carrier and sheriff's deputy at his home in com/news/4320442- March and was killed by an agent with the U.S. Border attorneys-office-rules-officer- Patrol, according to an investigation by the state. The Polk shooting-minnesota-man- County Sheriff's Office ruled the shooting was justified. justified-report-says
1 69 Unknown 1 N/A 2/23/2017 Lordsburg NM N/A Car Chase El Paso The U.S. Border Patrol engaged in high-speed pursuit of a https://kfoxtv.com/news/loc vehicle whose driver refused to stop when requested by al/border-patrol-chase-leads- agents. The vehicle struck a road sign, entered the median to-deadly-crash-in-new- on the highway and rolled over a few times. Two of three mexico-shuts-down-part-of- passengers in the vehicle were found dead at the scene. interstate 1 68 Unknown 2 N/A Lordsburg NM N/A Car Chase El Paso
1 67 Unknown N/A 7/15/2016 Laredo TX Unknown Non-Firearm Force Laredo According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an CBP Official Statement: unknown man was found by Border Patrol agents near the On July 15, 2016, at river in Laredo, Texas. CBP claims that the Border Patrol approximately 5:30 a.m., agents subdued the man after the man became Laredo Sector Border Patrol combative, and that the man became unresponsive while agents encountered a male- the agents escorted him to the vehicle. The man was subject near the river in pronounced dead at a local hospital. Laredo, Texas. Border Patrol agents subdued the 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 66 Unknown N/A 6/9/2016 Yuma AZ Mexican Firearm Yuma According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a CBP Official Statement: Yuma Sector Border Patrol agent shot an unknown man YUMA, Ariz. – A Yuma after the man grabbed both the agent's radio and Sector Border Patrol agent collapsible steel baton, and then proceeded to beat the discharged his service- agent with the baton. The agent fired his weapon after the issued weapon while being man allegedly began reaching for the agent's sidearm. The assaulted by an adult male man was pronounced dead after medical professionals who crossed illegally into were unable to resuscitate the him en route to Yuma the United States near Regional Medical Center. Somerton, Arizona, last night at approximately 10:00 p.m.“During the arrest, the subject grabbed the agent’s radio and collapsible steel baton and began strik ing 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 1 d h d 65 Unknown N/A 5/22/2016 Laredo TX N/A Car Chase Laredo According to the U.S. Border Patrol, agents chased a https://www.ksat.com/news/ "suspicious looking" vehicle down I-35. When attempting 1-dead-10-injured-in-crash- to avoid a tire deflation device used by Border Patrol after-border-patrol-chase- agents, the driver lost control of the vehicle, causing it to north-of-laredo flip multiple times One person died and 10 others were injured in the crash.
1 64 Unknown 1 N/A 3/23/2016 Yuma AZ N/A Car Chase Yuma According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, http://www.sonorannews.co CBP Official Statement: migrants fleeing from agents in a vehicle collided with a m/archives/2016/160406/ne YUMA, Ariz. - A failed tractor-trailer on Interstate 8, killing two and injuring four ws-border-report.html%0A smuggling attempt resulted individuals. in the death of two individuals Wednesday night during an attempt to evade law enforcement. At 1 approximately 7:45 p m
approximately 7:45 p.m. 63 Unknown 2 N/A 3/23/2016 Yuma AZ N/A Car Chase 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 1 this incident, it serves as a 62 Hector Leroy 43 2/4/2016 El Paso TX N/A Firearm El Paso According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, three https://www.elpasotimes.co i l t d t ti f th El Paso U.S. Border Patrol agents responded to the m/story/news/crime/2016/02 sound of gunshots near a Greyhound Bus Station. Agents /05/officials-killer-carjacking- observed a wounded person lying on the ground and truck-when-shot/79896992/ 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.
1 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 N/A Car Chase Laredo An unknown person died as a result of being thrown from a https://web.archive.org/web/ minivan during a chase with the U.S. Customs and Border 20170131065808/https://ww Protection. Four other occupants were taken to Doctors w.lmtonline.com/news/articl Hospital of Laredo. e/Border-Patrol-chase-ends- in-fatal-crash-in- 10135063.php 1 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 N/A Firearm El Centro According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an https://www.facebook.com/ officer on duty at the Calexico West Port of entry in watch/?v=936581459761659 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 U.S. 1. Firearm San Diego U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Melissa https://www.sandiegouniontr 2. Off Duty Hayes-Spencer shot and killed her boyfriend in their ibune.com/sdut-chula-vista- 3. U.S. Citizen apartment, claiming self-defense. Officer Hayes-Spencer shooting-2015oct17- was under investigation when she died in a car crash a few story.html months later.
1 1 http://www.sandiegouniontri bune.com/news/2015/oct/17 /chula-vista-shooting/
58 Unknown N/A 9/23/2015 Drummond Island MI N/A Firearm Detroit According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border https://www.cbp.gov/newsro Patrol agents (BPAs) were asssiting Michigan State om/stats/cbp-use- Police (MSP) Troopers in response to a subject of a force/case-summaries/sept- missing person/suicidal person alert on Drummond Island, 24-2015-use-force-incident- Michigan. MSP Troopers eventually discontinued their near-drummond-island-0 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.
1 57 Richard Matt 49 6/26/2015 Lake Titus NY U.S. Firearm Buffalo Convicted murderer Richard Matt escaped from prison and https://nypost.com/2015/06/ was on the run for 3 weeks before law enforcement 26/escaped-killer-richard- cornered him. Border Patrol agents were called in to help matt-shot-in-woods/ 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.
1 http://nypost.com/2015/06/2 6/escaped-killer-richard-matt- shot-in-woods/ 56 Graciela Lopez Franco 32 6/18/2015 Encinitas CA Mexican Border Patrol Boat Collision San Diego A U.S. Customs and Border Protection boat collided with https://www.latimes.com/loc a smuggling boat (a panga) carrying people suspected to al/lanow/la-me-ln-one-dead- be trying to enter the U.S. without documents. The california-coast-capsizes- smuggling boat capsized and 20 people fell into the water. 20150618-story.html 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.
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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 N/A Firearm Ramey A suspected drug smuggler was shot and killed by U.S. https://apnews.com/article/2 agents during a chase off the British Virgin Islands. U.S. 207b58471ea48f5b1ebb52a7 Customs and Border Protection agents were fired upon in 9dc7f53 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.
1 http://news.yahoo.com/us- agents-kill-suspected- smuggler-off-british-virgin- 202415549.html
Staff. Agents k ill 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 Canadian Firearm Blaine Jamison Childress, a 20-year-old Canadian man wanted https://www.bellinghamheral for murder, tripped a sensor indicating that someone had d.com/news/local/crime/arti crossed the border from Canada into Sumas, Washington. cle22282674.html 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.
1 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 Honduran 1. Off-Duty Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agent Luna was found to have been engaged https://www.valleycentral.co Rodriguez Palacios Paz in criminal activity with the Gulf Cartel. Luna was also m/news/local-news/border- found responsible for killing and mutilating Jose "Franklin" patrol-agent-charged-with- Paz, whose headless body was found off the shore of multiple-counts/ South Padre Island. Officer Luna was acquitted on murder charges but found guilty for criminal activity; his brother was found guilty of capital murder.
1 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 Mexican In Custody Marfa A Mexican citizen was apprehended by Border Patrol https://web.archive.org/web/ agents on Tuesday, February 17 in Marfa, TX for alleged 20150222035837/https://big illegal entry into the country. On Wednesday, February bendnow.com/2015/02/mexi 18th, the man became ill at the Marfa Border Patrol can-citizen-dies-while-in- Station. Border Patrol agents allegedly rendered aid and border-patrol-custody/ contacted Emergency Medical Services - who were unable to revive the man.
1 51 Tiano Meton 25 1/22/2015 Interstate 10, Sierra TX 1. Firearm 1 1 El Paso A man was pulled into the inspection lane at a Border https://web.archive.org/web/ Blanca 2. Car Chase Patrol checkpoint on I-10 near Sierra Blanca, but then 20150826145637/http://huds refused to stop. Border Patrol agents pursued the vehicle pethcountyherald.com/in- for 30 miles before it finally stopped. Four agents were border-patrol-shooting- approaching the vehicle when one yelled, 'Gun!' and the limited-details-emerge/ 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
50 [Not Released] N/A 1/21/2015 Chapeño TX Unknown Firearm Laredo According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, https://www.valleycentral.co U.S. Border Patrol agents from Rio Grande City Station m/news/local-news/border- responded to claims of drug smuggling activity in patrol-agent-shoots-and-kills- Chapeño, Texas when one agent searching the area came drug-smuggler/ under fire. The agent returned fire, shooting and killing one subject during the struggle.
1 49 Francisco Manuel Ceseña 40 12/24/2014 San Ysidro P.O.E CA U.S. 1. Other Force San Diego An El Cajon resident was shot with a taser and killed (due https://www.kpbs.org/news/ 2. U.S. Citizen to cardiac arrest) at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. U.S. 2015/jun/10/man-died- Customs and Border Protection claim the man was cardiac-arrest-san-ysidro- combative, under the influence of herion and border-crossing/ 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 U.S. 1. Off-Duty San Diego An off-duty Border Patrol agent, John Demery, confronted https://www.latimes.com/loc 2. Firearm a neighbor and fatally shot him multiple times. A six-year al/lanow/la-me-ln-off-duty- 3. U.S. Citizen veteran of the Border Patrol assigned to the Murrieta border-patrol-agent-arrested- station, Demery was placed on paid administrative leave on-suspicion-of-homicide- after the shooting. Demery was sentenced to 40 years in 20141108-story.html prison in 2017.
1 1 47 Amaro López 23 10/24/2014 Southwest of Tucson AZ Mexican Firearm Tucson According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the https://tucson.com/news/m man was shot in the head and killed during a foot chase an-killed-in-border-patrol- between two Border Patrol agents and several men in shooting-was- thearea of West Hermans and South Sandario roads. mexican/article_6fc42ac2- Other members of the group ran off. 3a96-57a4-93b2- 6945fbca301d.html 1 46 [Name not released] 36 10/17/2014 Holding cell BP TX Unknown In Custody El Paso According to the AP, Federal authorities say a drug CBP statement: At checkpoint between suspect has died while in custody at a U.S. Border Patrol approximately 10:40 a.m. Carlsbad NM & El facility in Texas. CBP says the 36-year-old man was found Friday, October 17, U.S. Paso unresponsive Friday in a holding cell at a Border Patrol Border Patrol agents checkpoint. assigned to Highway 62/180 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 1 subject was in custody 45 Aide Fink 50 9/25/2014 Flower Mound (near TX U.S. 1. Off-Duty Laredo Police arrested Border Patrol agent Daniel Fink, 40, for the https://starlocalmedia.com/t Dallas) 2. U.S. Citizen murder of his estranged wife. The 50-year-old woman was heleader/fink-gets-50-years- found with multiple gunshot wounds just after midnight for-flower-mound- Thursday inside a house. Fink was sentenced to 50 years murder/article_48a5c900- in prison in June of 2015. 0ee4-11e5-9c46- 27d7a0ac841b.html 1 44 [Name not released] 54 9/5/2014 McAllen Station TX Mexican In Custody Rio Grande Valley A 54-year-old man was found by Border Patrol hanging https://www.valleycentral.co CBP’s statement: Shortly Processing Facility, and unresponsive at the McAllen Station processing m/news/local- before noon local time on facility by Border Patrol agents. The man was transported news/immigrant-found- Friday, Sept. 5, U.S. Border to a local hospital where he later died. hanging-at-mcallen-border- Patrol agents at McAllen 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 1 CBP’s Office of Internal
43 Joaquin Thomas Cibrian 29 7/22/2014 Edinburg TX N/A Firearm Rio Grande Valley On July 22, 2014, several law enforcement agencies https://www.cbp.gov/newsro including the Edinburg Texas Police Department (EPD) om/stats/cbp-use- attempted to arrest Joaquin Tomas Cibrian in La Joya, force/case-summaries/july- Texas. Cibrian allegedly shot and wounded two officers 22-2014-use-force-incident- before barricading himself in the private La Joya residence. edinburg-tx-resulting 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.
1 42 Jose Luis Arambula 31 5/30/2014 Green Valley AZ U.S. 1. Firearm Tucson Accroding to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Jose https://www.gvnews.com/ne 2. Car Chase Luis Arambula--a 31-year-old man from Tucson--was shot ws/local/border-patrol-agent- 3. U.S. Citizen and killed in Green Valley as he was fleeing Border Patrol wont-face-charges-in-green- agents. The agents first pursued the man via a car chase valley- and then by foot. One of the agents, Daniel Marquez, fired shooting/article_175a1bbe- multiple shots at the man, killing him. The Pima County 3891-11e4-8d90- Sheriff's Office cleared Agent Marquez of any wrongdoing; 001a4bcf887a.html Arambula's wife filed a lawsuit against Agent Marquez, but the court dismissed the case in 2017.
1 1 41 [Name not released] N/A 3/10/2014 Detroit MI N/A 1. Firearm Detroit An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in https://www.clickondetroit.c 2. Off-Duty Detroit during a dispute that may have stemmed from a om/news/2014/03/10/detroit- card game. The agent fired several shots at the other man, police-off-duty-border-patrol- killing him. agent-involved-in-fatal- shooting-on-citys-east-side/ 1 1 40 Julian Ramirez Galindo 41 2/18/2014 Otay Mnts (Southeast CA Mexican Firearm San Diego Two Border Patrol agents split up to cut off a group of https://www.kpbs.org/news/ (misidentified as Jesús of San Diego) three suspected undocumented immigrants. The two 2014/feb/18/border-patrol- Flores Cruz) agents were out of sight of each other when one of the agent-fatally-shoots-suspect- agents was allegedly struck in the face by a rock thrown otay-ar/ 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.
1 39 Gabriel Sanchez Velazquez Late 20's 1/16/2014 Near Apache and AZ Mexican Firearm Tucson According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, https://tucson.com/gabriel- Portal Mexican male fled from Border Patrol agents and was sanchez- eventually found hiding under a mesquite bush. He velasquez/article_b7a4b7d4- struggled with the agent who found him, attempting to get d197-11e8-8bf7- the federal officer's weapon. The BP agent pulled his 873621a325ff.html 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.
1 38 Keith J. Martin 35 1/2/2014 Near Hondo TX U.S. 1. Off-Duty Laredo Border Patrol agent Adam S. Garibay, 33, was found https://www.expressnews.c 2. Firearm guilty of killing his wife's lover, Keith J. Martin (U.S. citizen om/news/local/article/Ex- 3. U.S. Citizen born in Germany), 35. After beating and tying up his wife Border-Patrol-agent-admits- in Corpus Christi, Garibay drove to Martin's home on a killing-wife-s-6620688.php private road 3 miles north of Hondo, TX, and allegedly shot him to death. Garibay was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
1 1 37 Steven Keith 58 12/25/2013 Campo Border Patrol CA U.S. 1. In Custody San Diego A man was arrested at a border checkpoint after agents http://america.aljazeera.co Station near San 2. U.S. Citizen allegedly found drug paraphernalia and trace amounts of m/articles/2014/3/16/us- Diego methamphetamine inside his vehicle. The man was taken border- to a holding cell at the Campo Border Patrol Station, patrolthoughtdeadmanwasfa where Border Patrol officials claim he became incoherent kingseizurereportsays.html and unresponsive. Six hours afterwards, the man was found dead.
1 36 Cruz Marcelino Velazquez 16 11/18/2013 San Ysidro POE CA Mexican 1. Minor San Diego While crossing the pedestrian bridge at the Point of Entry, https://www.nbcsandiego.co Acevedo 2. Other Use of Force a 16-year-old teenager was stopped by CBP officers for a m/news/local/family-of-teen- discrepancy with his visa. While waiting on a secondary who-died-after-drinking-liquid- inspection, officers asked about two bottles of amber liquid meth-at-border-crossing- he was carrying, which the K-9 unit alerted that there was settles/35986/ 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 Unknown 1. Car Chase San Diego After California Highway Patrol conducted a high-speed https://www.nbcsandiego.co 2. Firearm chase of a suspected carjacking, three U.S. Customs and m/news/local/suspect-chp- Border Protection officials at a Port of Entry shot at the high-speed-pursuit-north- car, killing the driver. county-to-otay- mesa/1962170/#ixzz2iP4ZLj gY
34 Matthew Simmons 27 3/21/2013 Just S. of Hebbronville TX U.S. 1. Firearm Laredo Agents drove up to a car on the side of road that appeared 2. U.S. Citizen 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 U.S. U.S. Citizen San Diego A man crossed into the United States in a vehicle with two https://www.sandiegouniontr other relatives who were U.S. citizens. They were directed ibune.com/sdut-border- to an inspection area and he collapsed. An agent death-2013feb17-story.html 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.
1 32 Margarito Lopez Morelos 19 12/2/2012 Baboquivari Mnts. AZ Guatemalan Firearm Tucson A 19-year-old man was shot and killed following a struggle https://tucson.com/margarit with a Border Patrol agent. The FBI investigation on the o-lopez- issue is still ongoing. morelos/article_a23472ea- d197-11e8-8eb0- f749dd3c55f3.html 31 José Antonio Elena 16 10/11/2012 Nogales, AZ Mexican 1. Minor Tucson According to authorities, U.S. Border Patrol agents https://www.azcentral.com/ Rodriguez 2. Firearm reportedly shot a 16-year-old teenager who was standing story/news/politics/border- 3. Cross-border Shooting in Mexico, 16 times in the back and killed him after the issues/2020/10/09/families- teenager reportedly threw rocks at the agents from across cross-border-shootings-take- the border. Agent Lonnie Swartz was officially charged cases-international- with second-degree murder for the shooting, and the court watchdog/5929805002/ 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.
1 30 Nicholas J. Ivie 30 10/2/2012 Near Bisbee AZ U.S. 1. U.S. Citizen Tucson Three Border Patrol agents responded to an alarm https://tucson.com/news/loc 2. Firearm triggered by a sensor aimed at detecting smugglers and al/crime/fbi-friendly-fire-killed- illegal immigrants entering the U.S. The agent was shot arizona-border-patrol- and killed by another agent friendly fire during the incident. agent/article_249eb3fb-9a53- 5a6a-87f0- e2d885ffc86e.html 1 29 Valerie Tachiquin-Alvarado 32 9/28/2012 Chula Vista CA U.S. 1. U.S. Citizen San Diego Border Patrol agents were serving a felony warrant in a https://abcnews.go.com/US 2. Firearm neighborhood in Chula Vista when agents claimed Valerie /valeria-alvarado-california- Tachiquin-Alvarado ran her car into one of the agents. The woman-fatally-shot-border- agent who was not in uniform shot into her vehicle ten patrol/story?id=17359380 times and killed her. There was no body camera footage, and witnesses claimed that Valerie was driving away from the officers, not towards them.
1 28 Guillermo Arévalo Pedraza 36 9/3/2012 Laredo TX Mexican 1. Firearm Laredo Guillermo Arevalo Pedraza was shot and killed while at a https://www.mysanantonio.c 2. Cross-border shooting barbeque with his wife and daughters. U.S. Border Patrol om/news/local_news/article/ agents claim they were under attack from rock throwers Father-shot-by-border-agent- on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. A video of the while-holding-his- shooting didn't show any rock throwing. The case is still 3848597.php 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 Mexican 1. Firearm Rio Grande Valley Juan Pablo Perez Santillan was shot and killed by Border https://www.texasobserver.o 2. Cross-border shooting Patrol agents hile standing on the banks of the Rio rg/us-border-patrol-agent- Grande. U.S. Border Patrol claims Perez Santillán was fatally-shoots-man-across- throwing rocks, but witnesses in Mexico say he was border/ 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.
1 1 26 Charles Robinson 75 6/23/2012 Jackman ME U.S. 1. U.S. Citizen Houlton Charles Robinson was shot and killed by Border Patrol https://bangordailynews.co 2. Firearm agents during a confrontation at his residence, which m/2012/11/27/news/border- involved an exchange of bullets initiated by Robinson. patrol-agents-were-justified- Robinson was reportedly intoxicated and believed to be in-using-deadly-force- injured. Attorney General William Schneider found the against-jackman-man-ag- agents were justified in their use of deadly force. rules/
1 25 Unknown 1 N/A 4/11/2012 Palmview TX Unknown Car Chase Rio Grande Valley Nine people died and seven were hospitalized in a crash https://www.chron.com/new involving Border Patrol agents and a suspected immigrant s/houston-texas/article/Nine- smuggler. Border Patrol agents stopped the vehicle after killed-in-crash-involving- suspecting immigrant smuggling. While agents were suspected-3476036.php 1 distracted, the van fled and agents followed in pursuit. The 24 Unknown 2 N/A Palmview TX Unknown Car Chase Rio Grande Valley van flipped and ejected passengers onto the roadway.
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1 16 Alexander Arthur Martin 24 3/15/2012 Near Campo CA U.S. 1. Car Chase San Diego Alex Martin died in car explosion that may have been https://www.nbcsandiego.co 2. U.S. Citizen caused by Border Patrol tasers. Border Patrol officials m/news/local/border- chased Martin's car after he began driving the wrong way explosion-suspect- down the highway. The Martin family sued CBP, and investigated-as- reports produced during the case found that the tasers had homicide/1948541/ been responsible for the car explosion. A judge dismissed the case, claiming that the agents were justified in their use of force.
1 15 Byron Sosa Orellana 28 12/6/2011 Near Sells AZ Guatemalan Firearm Tucson A man was shot and killed after allegedly assaulting an https://tucson.com/byron- agent and police dog. The FBI investigation into the sosa- incident still remains open. orellana/article_f9136f36- d196-11e8-9584- b392ddc3c9ef.html
1 14 Gerardo Rico Lozano 20 11/3/2011 Near Corpus Christi TX Mexican Firearm Rio Grande Valley Gerardo Rico Lozano, a 20-year-old man, was shot and https://www.mysanantonio.c killed after allegedly driving at Border Patrol agents who om/news/local_news/article/ pulled over his vehicle. Gerardo's mother filed a suit Man-killed-by-Border-Patrol- claiming that the agent's actions constituted an excessive agent-identified- use of force and that agents shot the vehicle from the side 2259170.php 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.
1 13 Omar Olivares 28 9/15/2011 Eagle Pass TX N/A 1. Off-Duty Del Rio An off-duty agent got into a shootout with his wife's cousin https://www.epbusinessjour 2. Firearm for unknown reasons. The wife's cousin, Omar Olivares, nal.com/2011/09/u-s-border- was killed at the scene and the agent died later at Ft. patrolman-and-family- Duncan Medical Center. According to the El Paso Police member-both-dead-after- Department, approx. 36-38 rounds shot by both family-dispute-escalates- individuals. The wife's cousin was shot approximately four into-gunfire/ times by the agent and the agent was shot seven times.
1 1 12 Jose Alfredo Yañez Reyes 40 6/21/2011 San Diego CA Mexican 1. Firearm San Diego Jose Alfredo Yañez Reyes was shot and killed by U.S. https://www.sandiegouniontr 2. Cross-border shooting Border Patrol agents who suspected him of attempting to ibune.com/sdut-rock- cross the border into the U.S. illegally. Agents claim throwing-lawsuit-yanez- suspected border crossers were throwing rocks. It is border-patrol-2015mar05- unclear whether Reyes was involved in the rock throwing story.html 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.
1 1 11 Amado Rodriguez 46 4/18/2011 Fabens TX Unknown, Born in Firearm El Paso Amado Rodriguez was shot and killed at a crime scene http://archive.azcentral.com/ Sinaloa, MX involving the El Paso Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team and El news/projects/border- Paso Sheriff's deputies. Family members of the man deaths/ 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.
1 10 Carlos Lamadrid 19 3/21/2011 Douglas AZ U.S. 1. Firearm Tucson Carlos Lamadrid, a 19-year-old man, was shot 3 times in https://tucson.com/carlos- 2. U.S. Citizen the back and killed by a Border Patrol agent while fleeing lamadrid/article_79013562- across the border into Mexico, reportedly transporting d196-11e8-9aac- marijuana. The agent was allegedly under attack by a rock 27dfd0b5032a.html 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.
1 9 Alex Martinez 30 2/27/2011 Whatcom County WA U.S. 1. U.S. Citizen Blaine Alex Martinez was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents https://citylivingseattle.com/ 2. Firearm while allegedly swinging a hammer and smashing windows Content/Default/City- in his mobile home. Officers fired when they thought they News/Article/Forum-looks- saw Martinez carrying a gun, but he actually just had a into-racial-profiling-close-to- flashlight. The Sheriff's Office denies any wrongdoing on home/-3/167/89183 behalf of Border Patrol.
1 8 Roberto Pérez Pérez 63 1/13/2011 San Diego CA Mexican 1. Other Use of Force San Diego A man was beaten by officers for trying to re-enter the https://www.texasobserver.o 2. In Custody U.S. at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, and died due to rg/deadly-patrols-civilian- medical complications (an infection) months later while deaths-at-the-hands-of-us- still in detention. No investigation was opened upon the border-patrol-agents/ man's death. 1 7 Ramses Barron Torres 17 1/5/2011 Nogales AZ Mexican 1. Minor Tucson Ramses Barron Torres was shot and killed after allegedly https://www.nbcnews.com/i 2. Firearm throwing rocks at Border Patrol agents. Witnesses deny d/wbna40957106#.VtJAvHQr 3. Cross-border shooting he threw rocks. The Department of Justice decided not to L-Z pursue criminal or civil charges against the Border Patrol agent responsible.
1 1 6 Juan Mendez, Jr. 18 10/5/2010 Eagle Pass TX U.S. 1. U.S. Citizen Del Rio Juan Mendez Jr. was shot in the back twice and killed by https://revealnews.org/articl 2. Firearm a Border Patrol agent after being involved in a car chase. e-legacy/border-patrol- 3. Car Chase Mendez was stopped by the officer for driving with a shooting-under-scrutiny/ "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.
1 1 5 Sergio Adrian Hernandez- 15 6/7/2010 El Paso TX Mexican 1. Minor El Paso Teenager Sergio Adrian Hernandez-Guereca was shot and https://www.pbs.org/newsho Guereca 2. Firearm killed by a Border Patrol agent after a group of suspected ur/nation/supreme-court- 3. Cross-border shooting illegal immigrants reportedly threw rocks at agents at an rules-parents-of-slain- international bridge. The teenager was on Mexican soil mexican-teenager-cannot- and the Border Patrol agent was 12 yards from the border sue-border-agent 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.
1 1 4 Anastasio Hernandez Rojas 42 5/28/2010 San Diego CA Mexican Other Use of Force San Diego Longtime San Diego resident Anastasio Hernandez Rojas https://www.sandiegouniontr was tortured to death by federal officers at a Border Patrol ibune.com/news/courts/sd- station for resisting deportation. Rojas' five children were me-hernandez-settlement- given a settlement of $1 million by the U.S. government in 20170302-story.html a lawsuit pertaining to use of force at the border.
3 Neil Begin 54 4/23/2010 Near Van Buren ME U.S. 1. U.S. Citizen Houlton Border Patrol Agent Robert Kipler responded to a call for https://bangordailynews.co 2. Firearm support by a Maine State Trooper investigating an ongoing m/2010/07/27/news/bangor/ domestic dispute. Kipler and the State Trooper entered the state-trooper-border-patrol- residence and confronted the subject, Neil Begin, who agent-justified-in-fatal- appeared to be holding a bolt-action rifle. Kipler fired 14 shooting/ 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.
1 2 Victor Santillan de la Cruz 36 3/31/2010 Laredo TX Mexican Firearm Laredo Victor Santilan de la Cruz was shot and killed during a OIG log Available At: struggle with a Border Patrol agent. https://s3.amazonaws.com/ s3.documentcloud.org/docu ments/400503/oig-page- 19.pdf
1 1 Jorge A. Solis-Palma 28 1/4/2010 Douglass AZ Mexican Firearm Tucson Jorge Solis-Palma was shot and killed by Border Patrol https://tucson.com/jorge- agent Torres-Vasquez after the man reportedly threw a alfredo-sol-s- rock and injured the agent and the agent's dog. The palma/article_e968a9da- incident was captured on a surveillance camera. The d195-11e8-9b56- Cochise County's Attorney's Office dropped charges cb746eb54781.html against Agent Torres-Vasquez two months after the incident.
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