A man shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent during a struggle in November in which the agentβs gun was taken has been identified and details of his wounds are detailed in an autopsy report.
Rolando ChΓ‘vez ChΓ‘vez, a 26-year-old Guatemala native, was part of a group agents tracked to an area about 21 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border after a sensor had been activated in the Baboquivari Mountains southwest of Tucson about 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 29.
At the time, the Border Patrol said ChΓ‘vez attacked an agent while he and the other were being taken into custody. During the struggle ChΓ‘vez ended up on top of the agent and was able to grab the agentβs gun from its holster, the agency said in November.
The second agent then shot ChΓ‘vez.
He was struck twice in the head, once in the shoulder and once in the hip, according to a Pima Countyβs Medical Examiner autopsy report released this week. All the wounds were on the right side of the body, the report says.
The toxicology report for ChΓ‘vez showed no drugs in his system.
Greg Hess, Pima Countyβs medical examiner, said his office cannot determine from the autopsy what position either ChΓ‘vez nor the agent were in at the time of the shooting.
Three other Guatemalan men who were part of the group of suspected illegal border crossers were arrested.
The Tohono Oβodham Police Department, the lead agency in the investigation of the shooting, has not responded to multiple calls from the Arizona Daily Star.
There were 66 use-of-force instances by Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector from the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, 2016 to Aug. 31, according to Customs and Border Protection.
Three of those instances involved firearms.
