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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWoman Killed By Border Patrol Identified As Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzales, 20
A Border Patrol agent says he opened fire on a group of people who were rushing at him.
The woman shot and killed by U.S. Border Patrol on Wednesday has been identified as Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles, a 20-year-old who had traveled to the U.S. from Guatemala in hopes of securing work to pay for her education.
Gómez Gonzáles was shot in the head when a Border Patrol agent fired on a group of people he believed to be undocumented immigrants in Rio Bravo, Texas.
The agent, who has been with Border Patrol for 15 years, said the group refused to get on the ground and instead rushed at him, at which point he opened fire, Customs and Border Protection said in a statement on Friday. The group fled after Gómez Gonzáles was shot, CBP said, but three of the individuals were later apprehended.
News of the shooting quickly circulated after a local resident filmed the aftermath and uploaded it to Facebook. Why did you shoot at the girl? You killed her! the woman filming says in the video, in Spanish, as she approaches Border Patrol agents at the scene. She wasnt doing anything.
Gómez Gonzáles was a Maya-Mam indigenous woman and had reportedly graduated from a program in forensic accounting in 2016. She had hoped to further her education, her father, Gilberto Gómez, told the Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre.
Lidia Gonzáles, the womans mother, told a local news channel that the family didnt have enough money for her daughter to continue her studies.
She told me she wanted to keep studying at university but we dont have the money, Gonzáles said, according to a translation by The Guardian. Were poor and there are no jobs here. Thats why she traveled to the U.S. But they killed her. Immigration killed her.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/claudia-patricia-gomez-gonzales-border-patrol_us_5b089f47e4b0fdb2aa539fed
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Woman Killed By Border Patrol Identified As Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzales, 20 (Original Post)
still_one
May 2018
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tazkcmo
(7,304 posts)1. The French
Will soon be demanding their statue back.
DFW
(54,477 posts)2. The more this goes on
The less we deserve it.
riversedge
(70,414 posts)3. Here is her picture