Border Patrol agents caught on camera shooting tribal member in Arizona.

1 min read
Source: The Associated Press
Border Patrol agents caught on camera shooting tribal member in Arizona.
Photo: The Associated Press
TL;DR

Newly released body camera footage shows Border Patrol agents shooting and killing Raymond Mattia, a tribal member, in southern Arizona. The video shows Mattia throwing a sheathed machete at a tribal officer and then holding out his arm. After he was shot, an agent declared that he still had a gun in his hand, but no firearm was found. The FBI and Tohono O’odham Nation are investigating the shooting, and the agents involved are on leave with pay.

Share this article

Want the full story? Read the original reporting

Read on The Associated Press