Photos: Deadly Border Patrol shooting at family outing
In September 2012, Border Patrol agents shot into Mexico and killed a man at a family barbecue on the banks of the Rio Grande. The agency says people were throwing rocks; witnesses disagree.
Nora Lam Gallegos is the widow of Guillermo Arevalo Pedraza, a Mexican man shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Nuevo Laredo on Sept. 3, 2012.
(Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times)In September 2012, Border Patrol agents shot into Mexico and killed a man at a family barbecue on the banks of the Rio Grande. The agency says people were throwing rocks; witnesses disagree.
Near the place where Arevalo was shot, crosses stand in memory of two children who drowned in the Rio Grande. Arevalo’s family put up a cross with his name, but floodwaters washed it away.
(Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times)