Exonerated murderer migratory agent Sergio A Hernandez Guereca

The Justice Department today released U.S. to shelve for the agent in the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) accused of murdering the teenager Juárez 15 years, Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca, on the border in 2010. The District Attorney's Office in Texas said that there was "sufficient evidence" to bring charges against the officer, after a two-year investigation of the incident in one channel of the US-Mexico border. "The Justice Department conducted a comprehensive and thorough investigation into the shooting, which occurred when smugglers trying to make an illegal crossing threw stones at close range CBP agent," said the institution. The incident at the time attracted wide attention in Mexico, since a group of residents filmed the murder when the officer tried to arrest several youths who sought to return to Mexico. Video images show that the CBP agent Güereca Hernandez shot at a time that witnesses saw several people throwing stones at the agent, who held a pistol in his right hand and left with a detainee. The Justice Department said it had reached the conclusion that there was insufficient evidence after interviewing 25 officers and witnesses, in addition to analyzing evidence at the site, as well as surveillance videos. The investigation sought to determine whether there were violations of the criminal laws of civil rights or federal murder statute, said the institution. "In relation to murder federal statutes, the team of prosecutors and concluded that there is sufficient evidence for a case against the CBP agent," he added. The Justice Department said it had evaluated elements as the "reasonable use of force" or was an "act of self defense to the threat created by a group of smugglers throwing stones at the officer and the detainee." "The investigation found that in this case the agent did not act inconsistently with the policy of CBP or training in connection with the use of force," he said. Moreover, the Justice Department determined that no federal charges of murder came because the agent did not act deliberately to do something the law forbids. "In addition, a process under federal criminal statutes and civil rights will not proceed because the investigation determined that Hernandez was not Güereca within U.S. borders or present on a property of the United States," he said. Finally, the Justice Department said he regretted the loss of life in the incident and said that working with Mexico to prevent future incidents. The agent was not identified.

• 2012-04-28T22:04:25+00:00
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