The FBI says it is investigating a Border Patrol shooting early Wednesday in Nogales as an assault on a federal officer by rock-throwers. But a friend of 17-year-old Ramses Barron Torres, who was killed after reportedly being struck by a patrolman’s bullet during the incident, said Barron Torres was an innocent victim who was killed while standing on Mexican soil.

FBI spokesman Manuel Johnson told the Nogales International in an e-mail that at approximately 3 a.m. on Wednesday, Border Patrol agents were attempting to arrest suspected drug smugglers near the border fence when bystanders began throwing rocks at them.



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