News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Man will be charged with assaulting border agent

By Tammy Fonce-Olivas / El Paso Times

Article Launched: 04/19/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

A 28-year-old man will face a charge of attempted assault on a U.S. Border Patrol agent in connection with a shooting Tuesday at an East-Central auto supply business.

Gerardo Felipe Ortiz of El Paso is being investigated by the FBI on allegations of trying to run over a Border Patrol agent in the Alamo Auto Supply parking lot at 5923 Gateway West, FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons said Wednesday.

Simmons said the incident happened after the agent and his partner followed a gray Dodge truck and a white Dodge car to the parking lot of the auto supply business.

The agents approached the truck and car after observing suspicious behavior between the vehicles' drivers.

As the agents identified themselves, Ortiz, who was driving the truck, allegedly attempted to run over one of the agents. In response, the agent fired his gun.

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