Border agency clears employees in 4 shooting incidents
The cases involve a Border Patrol agent who fired from Texas at rock-throwers in Mexico, a heavily armed murder suspect who was fatally shot as he fled a Texas house when a Border Patrol agent and other law enforcement officers opened fire, a Border Patrol agent who fired at rock-throwers in Arizona and an Office of Air and Marine crew that fired warning shots and crashed into a vessel off the Southern California coast carrying immigrants, one of whom died.
—On July 22, 2014, a Border Patrol agent shot at a murder suspect in La Joya, Texas, who barricaded himself in a home and fired about 15 shots at law enforcement officials.
— On June 17, 2015, a crew of Customs and Border Protection Office of Air and Marine fired two warning shots and another shot to disable the engine of a boat carrying 20 people illegally from Rosarito Beach, Mexico, to Southern California.