Border witnesses say shot teen threw no rocks Eyewitness accounts are at odds with an official U.S. characterization of the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez by a Border Patrol officer Monday.
El Paso FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons said the officer was responding to a group of suspected illegal immigrants attempting to enter Texas. Two were caught; the rest returned to the Mexican side of the border and threw rocks, Simmons said. The officer told them to stop, but they didn't and he opened fire, she said. The teen was fatally hit.
But two witnesses to the incident told the Wall Street Journal's Nicholas Casey that Hernandez was standing on the Mexican side of the border with his hands up and had not thrown rocks at the agent.
U.S. national Bobbie McDow said she was in the middle of the Santa Fe Bridge — which spans the border and has security checkpoints at either side ‐ and saw a group of teens who had no weapons or backpacks. They were playing a kind of "cat-and-mouse game," trying to make it to the U.S. side and back to Mexico without being caught, she told the Journal...
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