Border Patrol agent to be retried in cross-border killing

PHOENIX (AP) " A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was acquitted of second-degree murder while jurors deadlocked on lesser counts will be retried, an attorney for the family of the rock-throwing teen killed in a border shooting in Arizona said Friday.Attorney Luis Parra said he was in a federal courtroom in Tucson when U.S. prosecutors announced they would retry agent Lonnie Swartz for manslaughter.The news was met with joy by the family of 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, [...]


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