Border Patrol agent kills man armed with rock
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man who threatened him with a softball-size rock at the border, the agency said.
The agent fired an M-4 assault rifle at the man, who had escaped from a scuffle with another agent as he tried to run back into Mexico, said Border Patrol spokesman David Kim.
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