DOJ to meet family of boy shot by Border Patrol Agent

EL PASO, Texas (AP) – An attorney says U.S. Justice Department officials will meet with the parents of a 15-year-old Mexican boy fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent to explain why they won’t pursue a case against the agent.

Attorney Steve Shadowin said the family of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca will be informed Tuesday that there is no avenue to appeal a Justice Department ruling that Jesus Mesa Jr. acted within policy in the 2010 incident.

Shadowin says the parents will meet Justice officials in El Paso, across the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The family has filed a civil lawsuit.

U.S. investigators have said the agent was trying to arrest illegal immigrants who were crossing the bed of the Rio Grande into the U.S. when he came under attack from rock throwers.

JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press

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