The coroner’s authorities of the state of Arizonaon the southern US border, confirmed that an immigrant died due to “multiple” bullet wounds shot last Saturday by a Border Patrol agent on the border with Mexico.
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The medical examiner of Pima County (Arizona) did not release the identity of the victim because, according to what he said, the authorities are still investigating the facts. He indicated that the immigrant “was shot by Border Patrol personnel on February 19 in Cochise County, about 30 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of Douglas.
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“The cause of death was determined to be the result of multiple gunshot wounds,” the coroner said in a statement. For its part, the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) indicated that the process of identifying the deceased continues and that additional information on the facts will be released as it becomes available.
The sheriff’s office said they have been informed of the immigrant’s cause of death and are investigating the “officer involved in the incident.” from the other sidethe Coalition of Communities of the Southern Border called this Wednesday for an independent investigation of the eventsdenouncing that there were irregularities in the way the incident was processed.
“There can be no independent investigation of border agents with the involvement of the agency that employs them,” he said. In addition, he stressed that there were conflicting versions of the Cochise Sheriff’s Office about the event.
“Instead of CCSO processing the scene immediately, they waited a day,” criticized the pro-immigrant organization in a statement. He added that although the other immigrants in the area were taken by agents to a Border Patrol station “Right away, CCSO did not recover the deceased migrant’s body until the next day.”
He recalled that a similar situation happened in Del Río (Texas) last year in a use of force incident involving Haitian immigrants. “The witnesses were detained by border agents and processed (deported) without ever being questioned by independent investigators,” she said.EFE
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