Border Agent Charged for Killing Boy, 16

JUSTICE

Updated Apr. 14, 2017 9:39AM EDT / Published Sep. 24, 2015 6:21AM EDT

Mike Blake / Reuters

Authorities charged U.S. Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz on Wednesday with second-degree murder for the shooting death a 16-year-old boy in 2012. Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was shot approximately 10 times from across the U.S. border during an alleged incident in which a group of boys threw rocks at Border Patrol agents. Swartz is also facing a federal civil-rights lawsuit.

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Border Agent Charged for Killing Boy, 16

Mike Blake / Reuters