By Isolde Raftery, NBC NewsA U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a young Mexican man who had fled across the border into Mexico, the agency said.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) The Border Patrol issued a statement Thursday saying that agents responded around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday to reports of two suspected drug smugglers on the U.S. side of the border in Nogales, Ariz.
The agents reported seeing the men “drop a narcotics load” on the U.S. side of the border before jumping a wall or a fence to flee into Mexico.
Once in Mexico, according to the Border Patrol account, the men started throwing rocks at the agents. When they refused to stop, “one agent discharged his service firearm.”Field supervisors have been ordered by Washington officials to downplay the smuggling threats, a former DEA supervisor says – a charge U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehemently denies. NBC's Mark Potter reports.
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