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Esequiel Hernández Jr. (May 14, 1979 – May 20, 1997) was an 18-year-old American high school student killed on May 20, 1997, by United States Marines in Redford, Texas, located approximately one mile from the United States–Mexico border. [1]
At the time of the shooting, Hernández Güereca, a 15-year-old Mexican boy, was standing on the Mexican side of the Mexico–United States border, while the agent was on the American side. Hernández Güereca and several other boys had been playing around in the culvert – running up to touch the fence on the U.S. side of the border and then ...
In a preliminary hearing on Monday 9 December 2019, a video reconstruction of the shooting, including portions of video clips shot by two border cameras operated by the Border Patrol, [note 1] was shown by the prosecution. Defense attorneys asked the judge not to permit the video reconstruction to be shown at the trial, arguing that "the video ...
Since the shooting, Border Patrol has largely not faced the same sharp criticism as Texas state troopers and local police over the failure to confront the shooter sooner. The gunman was inside the South Texas classroom for more than 70 minutes while a growing number of police, state troopers and federal agents remained outside in the hallways.
U.S. Border Patrol agents who rushed to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022 failed to establish command and had inadequate training to confront what became one of the nation’s deadliest classroom attacks, according to a federal report released Thursday. But investigators concluded the agents did not violate rules and no disciplinary ...
About 150 of the 500 cameras are out of commission due to "several technical problems," NBC News reported, citing an internal Border Patrol memo.
Decades of border surveillance programs have spent billions of dollars but achieved little.
Body camera footage released in June by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows that the agents who fatally shot Raymond Mattia were concerned the 58-year-old may have been carrying a handgun ...