Border & Immigration

U.S. and Mexican Authorities Seach for Gunman Who Killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent

By Amy Isackson / Border Reporter

Published July 24, 2009 at 2:18 PM PDT

This story was published more than 14 years ago.

FBI officials and their Mexican counterparts are searching on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border for the gunman who killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Campo Thursday night. The agent was shot on patrol.

Border Patrol officials say agent Robert Rosas responded to a call about a group of people supposedly trying to sneak across the border around nine Thursday evening.

Officials say shortly after, other agents in the area heard gunshots. They tried to radio Rosas. He didn't answer. Officials say agents raced to where he was and they found him down, with at least one gunshot in the head. Officials say Rosas died there.

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Kieth Slotter heads the FBI in San Diego. He says it's not clear how many gunmen there were, but at least one may have been wounded. "We are certainly looking for public assistance on both sides of the border, would be any individuals who received treatment for a suspicious injury from a hospital, clinic, doctor."

The FBI is offering $100,000 for information that leads to an arrest.

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Amy Isackson

Amy Isackson was the border reporter at KPBS from 2004 to 2011. She covered breaking news and feature stories on California-Mexico border issues and immigration, for local and national broadcast. Amy got her start in public radio by pitching a series of stories about rural New Zealand - horse dentistry and sheep sheering - to Radio New Zealand's "Country Life" program. She then worked with Peabody Award-winning radio producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, to help create the Sonic Memorial, a series of stories on the World Trade Center before, during and after 9/11. Amy's work has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California and Nevada, the California Chicano News Media Association, and the San Diego Press Club. She won the Sol Price Prize for Responsible Journalism in 2009 from the Society of Professional Journalists for her story about high school students smuggling people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Prior to venturing into the wonderful world of public radio, Amy worked for Yahoo! Inc. for nearly five years as an editorial surfer, associate producer and broadcast communications manager. She majored in Latin American History at Williams College. She grew up in San Diego and made frequent trips south of the border.

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