The man refused the agent's order to drop his weapon, so the agent shot at him, and at the same time it appeared the man was shooting himself, the spokesman said.
The American agent shot him before he could fire.
On June 7, at approximately 6 30 p.m., a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot the 15-year-old Hernandez in the face in Mexican territory between Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas.
The Mexican police say that a United States Border Patrol agent shot at a 17-year-old trying to cross illegally into the United States at the Arizona border and that the youth died.
In rural Arizona, a border agent shot at and missed a migrant who had cocked his arm to throw a rock.
The agent had shot him in the back.
The agent who shot Gómez Gonzáles is on administrative leave. .
Survivors said the blaze was started by teargas rounds fired into the compound by government tanks, and that agents shot at some who tried to flee.
"They don't shoot at us," the agent says, "we don't shoot at them".
His aides, notably John Brennan, his counter-terrorism adviser, portray it as a matter of taking responsibility — if we are going to assassinate someone, or call in a drone strike to take out a camp in Yemen, the President should make the call — as if our only alternative were some sort of rogue operation, with generals or C.I.A. agents shooting at will.
The report found that the agents had not shot at the cult members or started the fire, as many critics of the government's behavior have long asserted.
