Video and witnesses contradict U.S. Border Patrol agent's account of fatal shooting
US Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett may be charged with murder
by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan
Los Angeles, Alta California - March 30, 2007 - (ACN) Just a few months after two rogue US Border Patrol agents were sent to prison for the cowardly shooting of an undocumented Mexican immigrant in the back and lying about it, another agent is facing charges that he lied about his fatal shooting of 22 year old Francisco Javier Domínguez-Rivera near the border at Bisbee, Arizona.
This incident occurred on January 12 of this year.
Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera was shot and killed in cold blood by Naco border patrol agent Nicholas Corbett say two brothers and one sister-in-law, who were traveling with him. The family says they were running south from agent Corbett when he circled their group in his SUV and while pointing a weapon at them. They say he got out of the truck and approached them. The family says that agent Corbett forced Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera to the ground and then shot him. A surveillance video in possession of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shows Corbett going to the rear of his SUV, forcing someone to his knees and shooting him. The video collaborates the statements of the two brothers and sister-in-law.
Also, the U.S. Border Patrol agent's account of what led him to shoot and kill the unarmed undocumented immigrant does not match the forensic evidence released by the Cochise County Attorney's Office. The autopsy report support the statements of the three witnesses traveling with Francisco Javier Domínguez-Rivera of Puebla, Mexico, when he was shot. The dastardly act occurred just 150 yards north of the US/Mexico border.
The father of the victim, Renato Domínguez, said he was not surprised by the conflicting accounts of his son's death. " I saw my son's body, and I know how he was shot. He was murdered," Renato Domínguez said at his home in Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico. The three witnesses are presently in the protection of the Mexican Consulate in Tucson. Juan Manuel Calderón Jaimes, the general consul in Tucson said the Mexican government has condemned the killing and has demanded a full investigation. President Felipe Calderon won't comment until the U.S. government makes the results official, said Jessica López Mejía, spokeswoman for the Mexican Office of Foreign Affairs.
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