Death by Cop 2021-2025
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Name Not Disclosed
Age :
Gender : Female
Race : Latino/a/e
Date : 09/03/2021
Location : Near Rio Grande River, approximately 1.5 miles southeast of Juarez-Lincoln Port of Entry
City : Laredo
County : Webb
State : Texas
Agency : U.S. Customs and Border Protection — U.S. Border Patrol, Laredo South Station
Officer(s) :Not Disclosed
Cause of Death : Fall from height
Event : Died after falling from cliff while fleeing Border Patrol custody
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
On 09/03/2021, an unidentified woman from Mexico died after falling approximately 20 feet from a cliff while attempting to escape U.S. Border Patrol custody near the Rio Grande River in Laredo.
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At approximately 6:00 a.m., a lone Border Patrol agent assigned to the Laredo South Station apprehended four migrants near the river, approximately 1.5 miles southeast of the Juarez-Lincoln Port of Entry. The agent handcuffed the four people together using three sets of handcuffs.
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According to CBP, while the agent was helping the group through a barbed-wire fence toward a Border Patrol vehicle, the woman slipped one hand out of the handcuffs and ran toward the Rio Grande.
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She ran approximately 50 feet in darkness before falling from a roughly 20-foot cliff. CBP reported that her head struck a log near the riverbank when she landed.
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The Border Patrol agent requested emergency medical assistance and secured the other three detained migrants in the patrol vehicle. Laredo Fire Department personnel responded and pronounced the woman dead at the scene.
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The woman was identified only as a Mexican citizen. Her name was not publicly released in the sources located for this update.
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The Laredo Police Department and Webb County Medical Examiner's Office investigated the death. U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Professional Responsibility also opened a review, and the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General was notified.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Border Patrol agent who apprehended and handcuffed the woman has not been publicly identified.
SOURCE LINKS :
https://sanangelolive.com/news/crime/2021-09-06/illegal-immigrant-woman-escapes-then-dies-fall-cliff
