Migrant survivors of West Texas shooting detained by ICE officials for nearly a month after crossing border illegally
Javad Zarif, the U.S. minister of foreign affairs, said in an interview that he “wasn’t aware of this at the time” Bulent Kilic, a CNN reporter, says that his team was told the shooting happened at the border, where agents made contact with migrants and allowed them to cross
An Associated Press reporter spoke with a Border Patrol agent who confirmed that agents detained a number of men trying to cross illegally in the same area where some of the shootings took place
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When a man in a balaclava fired into a crowd of people at a California beach in July, killing eight people and wounding 13, he did not expect he would be arrested.
The suspect, 27-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch of San Clemente, said to the police he had gone to the beach to confront a group of migrants who had earlier harassed his girlfriend. He said he was there to apologize, but some of the men started shouting at him and throwing rocks. He said he pulled out a handgun he had bought earlier that day and shot at the group.
He was arrested at the scene and booked into jail.
That weekend, a similar incident took place on a stretch of U.S. Highway 90 just north of San Diego. Three teens were killed and more than a dozen others wounded when a man in a truck fired a hail of bullets into a crowded group of people, striking 11 in the back during what an coroner described as a “horrific” event.
The man, identified by police as 26-year-old Gerardo Alaniz, was arrested and charged with killing a man and wounding a woman in a separate incident.
Alaniz is now out of jail after posting $200,000 bail in the shooting case.
Both shootings prompted outrage across the nation,