Border & Immigration

Agent's Lawyer Says Gutshot Victim had Threatened Agent

By Michel Marizco / Senior Field Correspondent

Published November 19, 2010 at 5:29 PM PST

This story was published more than 14 years ago.

The lawyer for a federal agent who shot a Mexican national last Tuesday says the victim had threatened him with a rock.

KJZZ's Michel Marizco reports.

Neither the Border Patrol nor the FBI will identify the agent, however his lawyer says he shot the man in the stomach after the man brandished a rock at him.

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Witnesses told sheriff's detectives the agent shot the man while he was down on the ground.

Jim Calle, the agent's lawyer, denies that.

"The agent is telling him, 'don't even think about it, don't do it, drop the rock.' And the alien does not do that. Reaches for another rock and starts coming up at the agent at which point the agent fired one round at him," Calle said.

Calle says the agent has not been charged with a crime. The victim is identified as Jesus Enriquez Castro, a 30-year-old man from Nogales, Sonora.

Enriquez's lawyer also says his client had fallen to the ground before he was shot.

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Senior Field Correspondent Michel Marizco (Tucson) has reported along the Southwest border for the past decade, most of that in Arizona and Sonora. Before joining the Fronteras Desk, he produced stories in the field for CNN Madrid, the BBC, 60 Minutes Australia, and the CBC. His work now focuses on transnational trafficking syndicates, immigration, federal law enforcement and those weird, wild stories that make the U.S.-Mexico border such an inherently fascinating region. He is a contributing author on Shared Responsibility: U.S.-Mexico Policy Options for Confronting Organized Crime and an occasional writer at High Country News. In his spare time, he works with Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, assisting in the ongoing investigations of journalist killings in Mexico.

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