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Read more: Family of Mexican teen killed on US border sues government for $25m | Mail OnlineThe family of a 15-year-old Mexican boy allegedly shot dead by U.S. Border Patrol are suing the government for $25million in a landmark legal action, it was revealed today.
Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca was allegedly shot by a Border Patrol Agent on June 7 while they were in the process of arresting illegal immigrants crossing the Rio Grande.
The lawsuit filed yesterday in El Paso is seeking massive damages for the teenager's death and will intensify the debate over how the U.S. should guards its border with Mexico.
President of the National Border Patrol Council, TJ Bonner, said the unnamed agent who fired the fatal shot acted in self-defence.
'The rocks being thrown at him were large solid objects capable of causing serious damage and even killing him'.
But the boy's mother Maria Guadalupe Guercera said: 'The crime must not go unpunished'.
After the shooting, Federal arrest records were obtained which showed that the Ciudad Juarez teenager had many brushes with the law.
He was arrested at least four times since 2008 and twice in the same week in February 2009 on suspicion of smuggling illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border. He was never charged with a crime.
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