At Rest

Deadly force
Starr County police responded to the area of FM 2098 near Falcon Lake around 1:30 a.m. in reference to a shooting involving a border patrol agent as he attempted to apprehend a drug smuggler. According to border patrol Chief Kevin Oaks, his agents had apprehended four subjects and were searching for a fifth one when the unnamed agent was met with gunshots. The officer then returned fire ending the suspected smuggler's life. Eight hundred pounds of narcotics were seized during the encounter.
This record exists so that Miguel Angel de Santos-Rodriguez, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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