NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A Mexican teenager who threw rocks at Border Patrol agents in the Arizona city of Nogales is dead, but his manner of death is now in dispute.
A Mexican official says 17-year-old Ramses Barron Torres died early Wednesday after he fell from a border fence and hit his head on a rock.
But state police in Sonora, across the border from Arizona, say companions of the teen claim he was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Calls to Border Patrol officials weren’t immediately returned Wednesday night. A spokesman for the FBI has declined to release details of the investigation.