At Rest

Deadly force
Officers served a warrant at Mendez's residence. Mendez threatened them with a handgun. Sergeant Catarino Sanchez fatally shot him. Mendez, of Reynosa, Mexico, was an undocumented immigrant in the United States. He was being investigated for burglary. Some items in his apartment had been reported stolen from nearby residences. The Texas Ranger Division investigated.
This record exists so that Reymundo Pedraza Perez, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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