USBP Agent beat to death in Van Horn, Tx. (I know him)

[HCM]

Not sure if he was pulling my leg (I highly doubt it) but I was at a match in Hobbs with a large contingent of BP guys. Some were in full duty gear (cool idea btw).

This one dude had a well used yellow handled set of wire strips. They were too small for cutting large zip ties. So I inquired.

He holds them up and says "These? Clipping wires on suspected bombs. I've done 3 this month"

I was like total deer-in-headlights.

Did they look like this :



They are for cutting flex cuffs.

https://www.galls.com/safariland-cuf...4aAkutEALw_wcB

[fixer]

Did they look like this :



They are for cutting flex cuffs.

https://www.galls.com/safariland-cuf...4aAkutEALw_wcB

sure did but they had a cut out for wire.

[blues]

Did they look like this :



They are for cutting flex cuffs.

https://www.galls.com/safariland-cuf...4aAkutEALw_wcB

I still have a few of those that were issued...

[revchuck38]

Driving back on I-10 from Tucson on my way home to SW Louisiana last Sunday, I stopped for supper in what was apparently the only open non-fast food restaurant in Van Horn. I ordered and then turned my attention to the TV news and learned of this. I was already facing the entrance, and decided to keep more than one eye peeled.

RIP to the fallen agent.

[TheNewbie]

Are there any updates out there?

[HCM]

FBI questions brothers in the death of Border Patrol agent

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.a2950ffaf432

They are looking at two brothers, susp3vted drug couriers, one of whom is a previously deported illegal alien.

[Doc_Glock]

My rather liberal sister just sent me this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...9ef_story.html


Comments? Link to article about FBI report in the article as well.

[JodyH]

Two Agents have severe blunt force "accidents" in the same place but 20 minutes apart...

Agent #1 responds to a sensor alert, goes radio silent.
Agent #2 arrives about 15 minutes later and also goes radio silent.
Another 20 minutes or so goes by and Agent #2 radios for help.

Theory down here is Agent #1 was interviewing someone on foot on the side of I-10.
That someones "ride" showed up and ran over the Agent.
Before they could get everything loaded Agent #2 arrives and is jumped and thrown or pushed into a very deep concrete culvert where he sustained severe head trauma.

[Doc_Glock]

Two Agents have severe blunt force "accidents" in the same place but 20 minutes apart...
Agent #1 responds to a sensor alert, goes radio silent.
Agent #2 arrives about 15 minutes later and also goes radio silent.
Another 20 minutes or so goes by and Agent #2 radios for help.

So they were separate and on foot when they fell or were pushed into a culvert?

[JodyH]

So they were separate and on foot when they fell or were pushed into a culvert?

#1 responded to a sensor alert and wouldn't answer his radio.
His backup arrived a few minutes later and also went silent for quite a while until he called for help.
The culvert is a concrete bridge over a dry wash that's about 15' deep, both were found at the bottom of it.