A protestor on the U.S. side of the border fence leans close to talk to protestors on the Mexican side. A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been indicted in the fatal 2012 shooting of a teenage boy along the Arizona-Mexico border.
Luis Parra, lawyer for the boy's mother, said a federal grand jury indicted agent Lonnie Swartz Wednesday on a charge of second-degree murder.
Swartz fired through the border fence into Nogales, Sonora, and fatally wounded 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez on Oct. 10, 2012.
The boy's family has filed a lawsuit in the case.
The Border Patrol said that Elena Rodriguez was among a group of rock-throwers endangering agents' lives. But his family said the boy was walking home from a basketball game with friends.
Swartz's lawyer, Sean Chapman, told the Arizona Daily Star that his client will plead not guilty at an Oct. 9 arraignment.
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