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TUCSON, Ariz. -- A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot after he encountered several suspects in southern Arizona, officials announced Wednesday. Agent Brian Terry was killed late Tuesday near Rio Rico, Ariz., according to a statement released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials. At least four suspects are in custody and another is still being pursued.

On Sunday, a 4-year-old Mesa boy died at Phoenix Children’s Hospital from massive head trauma. On Friday, his mother left him with her boyfriend, Jorge Busso, 23, when she returned from work, she found the toddler lying in his bed, unresponsive. Detective Steve Berry with the Mesa Police Department said that Busso became enraged after realizing the child had soiled himself. He then allegedly shoved the boy into a corner and whipped him mercilessly with a belt. The police report reads: “The defendant said (he) first spanked him with his hand against the victim’s clothed buttocks. The defendant continued to...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Agents along the Mexican border are watching for the man police think killed 16-year-old Megan Ratliff in a hit-and-run accident Saturday night. The teen’s loved ones said goodbye at a funeral Thursday afternoon, where they said they want the suspect caught. “I can't breathe without her. I don't want to open my eyes anymore because she is not here. … I want the man that did this caught," Ratliff’s mother told 24-Hour News 8 Reporter Jacqueline Policastro. Classmates and family gathered at the small funeral at the Blessings of Love Ministry around noon on Thursday. The victim’s...

HANOVER COUNTY — A small roadside memorial marks the location of a deadly crash that claimed the life of 23-year-old Casey Bohr. "It's a tragedy, it's a DUI fatality and that by itself is tragic this time of year," says Hanover Commonwealth's Attorney Trip Chalkley. Tuesday morning, the suspected drunk driver will appear before a Hanover judge. Prosecutors say Feliciano Suarez is an illegal immigrant and is therefore a flight risk. They plan to oppose bond at the hearing. Chalkley says, " Prosecutors are preparing a list of previous committed other crimes under different names in Central Virginia. We know...

"Salvadoran Immigrant Ingmar Guandique Found Guilty of Murdering D.C. Intern Chandra Levy [12:45 p.m. ET]" That was the breaking news headline that was blasted to my inbox from ABCNews.com regarding today's murder conviction of the suspect in the 2001 murder of the former congressional intern for then-Rep. Gary Condit (D). In the Associated Press story by Matthew Barakat at the ABCNews.com website, there is no mention of the fact that Guandique is an illegal immigrant nor of the fact that he is involved in the ruthless gang Mara Salvatrucha, more commonly known as MS-13. This despite the fact that numerous...

SAN DIEGO — A suspected drunken driver who killed five people when his car slammed into a group of motorcyclists has been released from custody in Southern California.The California Highway Patrol says Carlos Bobadilla of Mexicali, Mexico, was freed Sunday but could still face drunken driving charges when blood tests come back.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexican authorities said Monday. Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said Edgar Lopez, 35, of El Paso, Texas, was killed Sunday along with two Mexican men when gunmen opened fire on a group standing outside a house. On Saturday, a 26-year-old U.S. woman and an American boy were slain shortly after crossing an international bridge from El Paso. Giovanna Herrera and Luis Araiza, 15, were shot to death along with a Mexican man traveling with them just after 11...

With 48 slain in first 6 months of 2010, 2009 toll of 80 may be exceededForty-eight Americans were killed in Mexico during the first six months of 2010 — a deadly pace that appears likely to exceed any previous year of homicides on record, according to the Houston Chronicle's analysis of the U.S. State Department's death registry. The tally doesn't include two Texans reported killed Sept. 30 in separate incidents in isolated areas of Tamaulipas, where the terrorist group known as the Zetas has been warring with their Gulf Cartel rivals in communities all along the Southeast Texas border. A...

ZAPATA — A Texas border sheriff on Thursday said he was calling directly on Zeta operatives to simply produce the body of a missing U.S. citizen believed shot and killed last week by drug gangs on Falcon Lake reservoir. “All we want on this side is a body,” Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said at a news conference here attended by three congressmen and a host of other U.S. officials. Gonzalez said he had made his entreaty privately through channels he could not disclose, but that now he was making his request public so the Zetas — an assassination hit...

SNIPPET: "A Texas college student was shot and killed in Mexico after the bus he was riding on was hijacked by suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel, The Brownsville Herald reports. Jonathan William Torres, an 18-year-old college freshman at the University of Texas at Brownsville, was killed Sept. 30 in Matamoros -- just outside Ciudad Mante in the southern part of Tamaulipas -- a university spokeswoman told the newspaper. Torres was reportedly on his way to visit family when his bus was allegedly ambushed by members of Mexican organized crime."

The wife and mother of an American allegedly shot to death by Mexican pirates on a border lake in Texas are angrily demanding that Mexican authorities allow U.S. investigators to join the search for a body -- and stop questioning whether the attack ever happened. Search teams scouring the U.S. side of Falcon Lake have turned up no sign of David Michael Hartley, 30, five days after his wife said he was shot in the head by Mexican bandits marauding on the U.S.-Mexican border lake. Tiffany Hartley, 29, accused Mexican authorities Tuesday of "not looking" for her husband's body and...

Marietta police are looking for a man accused of beating a 27-year-old man to death with a baseball bat during a robbery. Boydrick Powell was killed during a robbery inside his Franklin Road apartment sometime between midnight and 4 a.m. Sept. 18, said Officer Jennifer Murphy with Marietta police. Within a few hours, arrest warrants were issued for Jesus Hernandez-Perez, 28, and Jose Marcelino Badillo-Pacheco, 21, both of Marietta, Murphy said. Hernandez-Perez was arrested two days later and booked into the Cobb County jail, where he is being held without bond and on an immigration hold. But Badillo-Pacheco, aka “Gordo,”...

On Falcon Lake in Zapata County, TX two boatloads of Mexican drug cartel gunmen shot at an American wife and husband as they were riding jet skis, and the man is presumed dead as reported by Lynn Brezosky for San Antonio Express-News. Zapata County Sheriff Sigifrido Gonzalez Jr "says this is his worst nightmare" as reported by Eddie Flores for KRGV: "The one thing I dread on Falcon Lake has happened. The lake is not secure and the border is not secure. We can't go to Mexico, we can't recover the body. We can't investigate, we have to tell the...

One of two men arrested in Monday’s shooting at a packed Lawrence nightclub told police there was an “arrest of alien” warrant out for him when the two allegedly gunned down four people during an apparent birthday party, killing one of them. It is unclear whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was aware that Fernando Guerrero Lara was a suspected illegal alien when he and Johan Saintclair allegedly walked into La Guira Restaurant shortly after midnight and opened fire. A “detainer has been placed on Fernando Guerrero-Lara,” said ICE spokesman Harold Ort, “and we are aware of Johan Manuel Saint...

ACAPULCO, Mexico — A Mexican soldier said that a U.S. citizen attacked an army convoy and was killed when troops shot him in self-defense outside the resort city of Acapulco, a police official said. The man's father said Monday that he found it hard to believe. An army lieutenant told police that Joseph Proctor opened fire on a military convoy with an AR-15 rifle, forcing the soldiers to shoot back, said Domingo Olea, a police investigator in the western state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located. Olea provided no further details on Proctor, who was found dead in his car...

A Harris County jail inmate awaiting trial on a murder charge allegedly beat a young illegal immigrant accused of robbing and fatally shooting a 14-year-old girl in the back as she was walking home on Aug. 6. Melvin Alvarado, 22, one of two men charged with capital murder in the death of Shatavia Anderson, was beaten Thursday evening, sustaining serious enough injuries to be hospitalized and receive stitches, said Alan Bernstein, of the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Accused in Alvarado's beating is Robert Williams, 38, Bernstein said.

My 16-year-old daughter, Tessa, was killed by an illegal immigrant three years ago while sitting at a stop light. Her friend Ali Kunhardt, 17, also perished instantly. The explosion was so loud witnesses said it sounded like a bomb going off, hit from behind going more than 70 mph. They were tiny, skinny little girls stuffed somewhere in the floorboards when the police and EMT crew arrived. Alfredo Ramos, a previous DUI offender and alcoholic, seemed invisible in a system that was good at looking the other way. Virginia Beach and Chesapeake were being accused of being “sanctuary cities” as...

...snip... Two of the nuns -- Sister Charlotte Lange and Sister Connie Ruth Lupton -- remained in critical but stable condition last night; a third -- Sister Denise Mosier -- died at the crash site. ...snip... Saint Gertrude's website reported last night that Sister Charlotte "had some intestine removed and has some internal bleeding" and that Sister Connie "fractured her leg, ankle and wrist," had part of a thumb amputated and suffered internal injuries. Funeral arrangements were incomplete last night for Sister Denise.

The man suspected of drunken driving and killing a Catholic nun in Prince William County this weekend is an illegal immigrant who was awaiting deportation and who federal immigration authorities had released pending further proceedings, police said Monday. The man, Carlos Montano, a county resident, had been arrested by police twice before on drunk-driving charges, and on at least one of those occasions county police reported him to federal authorities. "We have determined that he is in the country illegally. He has been arrested by Prince William County Police in the past," said Officer Jonathan Perok, a police spokesman, who...

NEWPORT BEACH – A man involved in a fatal bicycle crash Thursday was detained at Central Mens Jail after police determined that he had been previously deported, police said. Jose Luis Huerta Mundo, 38, of Garden Grove, was detained on an immigration hold after police contacted Immigration and Custom Enforcement, said Newport Beach Police Sgt. Evan Sailor. Mundo is still in custody, records show.