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U.S. Border Patrol agents answering reports of gunfire shot and killed a man on a tribal reservation in southern Arizona after he abruptly threw something and raised his arm, the agency said Monday.
The FBI and Tohono O’odham Nation are investigating Thursday night’s fatal shooting of Raymond Mattia.
Monday’s US Customs and Border Protection statement said tribal police asked Border Patrol agents for help responding to a report of shooting west of the Menagers Dam community on tribal lands near the US-Mexico border.
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At around 9:30 p.m., officers were informed that shooting had reportedly occurred near the home of a “named individual” and a tribal officer went to the location to find the person, followed by the officers in separate cars. statement said.
A few minutes after arriving, the police officer and officers found a man outside a home near their parked cars, the statement said.
The man threw some object at the officer who landed a few feet away and then “abruptly thrust his right arm away from his body and three officers fired their service weapons, striking the person several times,” the statement said.
U.S. Border Patrol officers drive on December 9, 2010, in the Tohono O’odham Reservation, Arizona, near the U.S.-Mexico border. The FBI and the Tohono O’odham Nation Police Department are investigating an incident that occurred last week when U.S. Border Patrol agents shot and killed a tribal member in southern Arizona. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Due to bad weather, no air ambulance was available to take the man to a hospital and despite life-saving efforts, he was pronounced dead shortly after 10 p.m., according to the statement.
An autopsy was performed, but the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office did not immediately release details.
The three Border Patrol officers who opened fire and at least seven others wore body cameras and activated them during the incident, the statement said.
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On Sunday, Tribe Chairman Ned Norris Jr. the man as Mattia, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation.
Norris and the Border Patrol did not immediately release other details about the shooting, including whether investigators had confirmed the previous reports of gunfire and whether any weapons were found.
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Tucson TV station KVOA previously reported that family members of Mattia, who declined to be named, told the station that he called Border Patrol because several migrants had entered his yard and he wanted help getting them. from his possession.
Relatives also said Mattia had gone outside when he saw the officers and was only a foot away from his front door when dozens of shots were fired at him.
Those details could not be immediately verified either.
