Slain Border Agent Fired Beanbags at Bandits

Border Patrol agents followed instructions and shot non-lethal beanbags at illegal aliens in Arizona before the illegals fired back with real bullets and killed an agent, newly released documents reveal.

A team of agents confronted the illegals — who were armed with AK-47s and suspected of robbing drug runners and illegal immigrants — on the night of Dec. 14 in remote Peck Canyon.

FBI search warrant requests filed in a Tucson court and viewed by the Arizona Daily Star disclosed: “When the suspected aliens did not drop their weapons, two Border Patrol agents deployed ‘less than lethal’ beanbags at the suspected aliens. At this time, at least one of the suspected aliens fired at the Border Patrol agents. Two Border Patrol agents returned fire, one with his long gun and one with his pistol.

“Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was shot with one bullet and died shortly after. One of the suspected illegal aliens, later identified as Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, was also shot.”

Brian Terry’s brother Kent said the other agents at the shooting site told him they were instructed to use the non-lethal beanbags first — a policy that doesn’t make sense, he told the Daily Star.

“You go up against a bandit crew that is carrying AKs, and you walk out there with guns loaded with beanbags,” he said. “I don’t get it.

“These guys are professionals. They should be able to use their judgment.”

The search warrants were requested to examine fingerprints and a hair sample from Osorio-Arellanes, who remains in custody.

The Daily Star reported its disclosures on Thursday, a day after authorities said a man beheaded in a suburban Phoenix apartment was killed for stealing drugs from a Mexican cartel.
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