Border Patrol Agent Shoots, Kills Woman in Calif.

[BLACKVANDRIVER]

The husband of dead woman stated.

"I love her to the fullest. That's my heart," husband Gilbert Alvarado said. "Where's the evidence my wife threatened a trained officer? I want justice."

If you read the eyewitness

account from local that the agent was on the hood and that the photos clearly show a HUGE impact that his body broke the glass when she hit the agent throwing up on the car then NOT stopping for several hundred yards when the agent was in fear for his life and at that time chose to use deadly force. I would call that EVIDENCE!

Link with pic of car - http://www.fox5sandiego.com/news/

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/border-patrol-agent-shoots-kills-woman-calif-17353368#.UGg1u0L5B7M

[Sam1]

sounds justified to me, he was stuck on the hood for several hundred yards. All she had to do as press the brake pedal

[Jesse]

I dont get how he was hit in the first place. Was he walking down the street and this lady decides to take out the officer?

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Maybe she was trying to flee and tried to run him over or something. Be curious to find out more. He was

serving a warrant on someone, maybe her man?

[Guest mcgyver210]

Something is missing because the agent doesn't appear to have been identifiable or does it appear he tried to identify his self. Why would the lady just randomly hit this agent with her car? One of the big reasons I always say unless necessary for under cover work plain clothes agents are a danger to the public. Also Lying by LEOs or agents should be illegal punishable as the crime it is.

On the surface it appears as justified but my gut tells me on this one there is more to the story & we will never know it unless there is a video by a witness that hasn't come forward.

I would investigate as to if the agent knew the lady or if he ever had contact with her.

Edited September 30, 2012 by mcgyver210

[Rickey]

It just dont sound right to me . I think there's alot more to it that they're not wanting to tell.

[BLACKVANDRIVER]

Something is missing because the agent doesn't appear to have been identifiable or does it appear he tried to identify his self. Why would the lady just randomly hit this agent with her car? One of the big reasons I always say unless necessary for under cover work plain clothes agents are a danger to the public. Also Lying by LEOs or agents should be illegal punishable as the crime it is.

On the surface it appears as justified but my gut tells me on this one there is more to the story & we will never know it unless there is a video by a witness that hasn't come forward.

I would investigate as to if the agent knew the lady or if he ever had contact with her.

Yes agree with the lying by LEO part but you have to remember that this is a mostly hispanic area very close to the TJ border and I would have a hard time taking much credability to the same race as the victims "eye witness account" of what the INS agent actually was doing. So either way I am sure this will play out on the news as the days go by.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Never know. Maybe there is more to it.

[Guest CCI]

Possibly she may have thought he was a "car jacker", who was going to steal her car! Maybe she thought he was a rapist! An eye witness states, he saw a man with a gun, but no badge! The gun is out, no badge visible, #### happens!

Other undercover officers joined him, pulling out their badges as they walked.

[vontar]

CCI makes an interesting point.

If someone car jacks me and just so happens (thinks) he makes me drive some place will be mistaken. If I have any control of the car it would be my weapon to end the situation.

[Jesse]

Police are like brothers, they cover stuff up all the time. Who knows what went down. Its a sad story if she did think he was a gunman trying to carjack her and she was only trying to protect herself.

[Tempest455]

It just dont sound right to me . I think there's alot more to it that they're not wanting to tell.

Always is.

[DaveTN]

Of course we don’t know what happened. “Several hundred yards†are you kidding me? After the first 50 yards you are going fast enough to hit the brakes, throw him in front of the car and run over him if you think he’s a carjacker. Of course it’s possible that he identified himself as a cop and she was still not stopping. Her family said they had no idea why she was in that area. Dope deal? We could write for days and never cover all the possibilities or potential scenarios of what happened.

[Sam1]

A bit more info:

http://www.examiner.com/article/witnessess-tell-what-they-saw-when-woman-was-fatally-shot-by-border-patrol-agent

Husband said in an interview

"Where's the evidence my wife threatened a trained officer? I want justice."

Something fishy about the way he said that, he probably got the vocabulary from a lawyer.

[Guest mcgyver210]

I have been reading some more on this & it definitely isn't cut-n-dry as it seems IMO.

The Border Patrol Agents explanation just doesn't feel right. Also his version isn't even close to what witnesses say happened.

[Guest CCI]

I have been reading some more on this & it definitely isn't cut-n-dry as it seems IMO.

The Border Patrol Agents explanation just doesn't feel right. Also his version isn't even close to what witnesses say happened.

It sounds like a bad shooting, the local police department is investigating it as a homicide! It's usually called self defense investigation, not a homicide investigation.

[DaveTN]

It sounds like a bad shooting, the local police department is investigating it as a homicide! It's usually called self defense investigation, not a homicide investigation.

I’ve never heard of a “self-defense investigationâ€, It’s a homicide, the homicide division will investigate it, I wouldn’t read much into it being called a homicide investigation; that’s what it is, even if it turns out to be justifiable homicide.

[DaveTN]

The Border Patrol Agents explanation just doesn't feel right. Also his version isn't even close to what witnesses say happened.

I can’t find anything saying the Agent made a statement or what he said. Do you have a link?

[Guest CCI]

I’ve never heard of a “self-defense investigationâ€, It’s a homicide, the homicide division will investigate it, I wouldn’t read much into it being called a homicide investigation; that’s what it is, even if it turns out to be justifiable homicide.

I've never heard a police department call it a homicide investigation when a LEO is involved(although that's precisely what it is)! It's called officer involved shooting, or shooting by an officer!

Labeling a shooting by an officer, "homicide investigation", and releasing it to the media as that, just doesn't sound good! As I stated before, I've never heard it called that for a LEO shooting!

[Guest HillyKarma]

Justified.

At least in my eyes.

You don't do that and expect to not get handled.

[Guest CCI]

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — The family of a 32-year-old mother of five shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent as he rode on her car’s hood in suburban San Diego has filed a wrongful death claim against the agency, saying the agent had a long history of misconduct in a previous law enforcement job and should not have been on the street.

Attorney Eugene Iredale filed the claim Friday with the Border Patrol on behalf of Valeria “Munique†Tachiquin Alvarado and provided a copy to The Associated Press.

The documents, a required precursor for a lawsuit, say the agent, 34-year-old Justin Tackett, was suspended four times for misconduct including crashing a patrol car and violating suspects’ rights in the nearly four years that he worked as an Imperial County sheriff’s deputy. Tackett had been given a notice that he’d be fired just before he quit the job in 2003, the documents say.

In one 2002 probation case, according to the claim, Tackett “willfully disobeyed a direct order†and “provided false and misleading information during the investigation.â€

In a different incident in 2001, Tackett was called to assist police in Brawley with an incident and told to wait for them at a scene but instead rousted the suspect himself, engaged him in an altercation and cuffed him without a warrant.

The Border Patrol, which has not released Tackett’s name or answered questions about him, declined comment, and a phone listings for Tackett or an attorney representing him could not be found.

But in a wrongful termination suit he filed in 2004, he claimed he was the victim of retaliation for pursuing cases against supervisors’ friends and of racial discrimination because he was white.

On Sept. 28, authorities say Alvarado left an apartment in Chula Vista where border agents were serving a warrant against someone else, and say she deliberately ran into Tackett, who shot her out of fear for his life after being forced to ride on the hood for several hundred yards as he asked her to stop.

Shawn Moran, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, the agents’ union, said he was confident Tackett did the right thing in the incident.

“If the agent says his life was threatened and he needed to use deadly force, we’re going to back him and accept his statement at face value,†Moran told U-T San Diego, which first reported the Alvarado family claim.

The FBI and Chula Vista police are investigating the incident.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/family-of-woman-shot-and-killed-by-border-patrol-agent-in-calif-files-wrongful-death-claim/2012/10/13/a6c0d558-154e-11e2-9a39-1f5a7f6fe945_story.html