San Ysidro : Border Patrol Shoots Boy, 13

A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a 13-year-old Mexican boy Thursday during an altercation behind a bus station at the international border, police said.

The boy was identified as Robert Carillo, a Mexican national, and was listed in good condition Thursday night at Mercy Hospital with a bullet wound in the chest. Carillo was taken to the hospital about 4:30 p.m. by a Life Flight helicopter, said Mercy spokesman Norman Greene.

Details about the shooting were still sketchy late Thursday. A spokesman for the Border Patrol refused to make a comment or identify the agent involved. The San Diego Police Department was investigating the incident.

Police spokesman Bill Robinson said the shooting took place behind a bus station on Rail Court in San Ysidro.

Robinson said two robberies were reported earlier in the day near the border. A man was robbed of $87 at knifepoint at 10:30 a.m., and another man was knocked off his bicycle and robbed of $80 at noon, he said.

Suspects in both crimes, which took place about one-quarter of a mile east of the international crossing, were described as being in their late teens or early 20s. Robinson said there was no evidence that Carillo was involved in the holdups.