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 News from Around the Americas | January 2007 
Border Patrol Video Shows Shooting Death
 Associated Press
| | Senior Border Patrol Agent Pedro Villarreal operates a computer displaying apprehensions from fiscal year 2006 in the Rio Grande Valley sector of Texas Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007, at Border Patrol headquarters in Edinburg, Texas. Geographic Information Systems and other mapping programs are helping Border Patrol officials to spot emerging trends in illegal activity in their sectors. (AP/Alex Jones) |
A deadly Border Patrol shooting that drew criticism from Mexico's president was recorded by surveillance cameras, but the images are unclear, authorities said.
The Border Patrol is trying to have the tape digitally enhanced to show more detail of the Jan. 12 confrontation east of Bisbee, said Michael Nicley, chief of the agency's Tucson Sector.
"You can't tell anything from the tape at all," he said. "You can barely even make out the bodies."
Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera, 22, of Puebla, Mexico, was shot and killed by an agent who had responded to a call about a group of seven people crossing the desert.
The agent took six of the people into custody without incident, then started fighting with Dominguez Rivera. The Border Patrol has said the agent thought his life was in danger when he shot the man.
Cochise County and the FBI are investigating the shooting.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon condemned the shooting, and his government has sent a diplomatic note of protest to the United States.
An autopsy was conducted Wednesday, but results have not been released.
The agent, who has not been publicly identified, is on paid administrative leave.
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