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According to the Cochise County Sheriff's Office, the Border Patrol shooting incident started at about 9:30 a.m. There's a few things that are still unanswered in the case and would bear questioning. According to the sheriff's office, deputies responded to a shooting call nine miles north of the border near the state prison on Highway 191. "The initial investigation indicates that U.S Border (Patrol) received information that a gold/tan Chevrolet truck was observed loading a group of illegal immigrants near Douglas and a license plate was given. The agent observed the suspect vehicle and confirmed the license plate before making a traffic stop on a 1999 Chevrolet truck on Highway 191. After the vehicle was stopped by the Border Patrol agent and he was making contact with the five occupants, the driver attempted to leave the scene with the agent somehow trapped by the vehicle door," the sheriff's department said in its press release. "The agent was dragged approximately twenty feet before he fired a single shot from his service weapon striking the driver in the upper left leg. The vehicle stopped a short distance away and all occupants stayed inside until being taken into custody. The driver of the vehicle, tentatively identified as 29 year old Luis Sanchez-Barron of Hermosillo, (Sonora) was airlifted to a Tucson hospital with injuries sustained in the shooting. The agent was transported to the Southeastern Arizona Medical Center in Douglas for treatment of cuts and abrasions suffered when he fell from the fleeing vehicle. The remaining four occupants were transported to the U.S. Border Patrol station where they are being interviewed by Sheriff’s investigators." This "somehow trapped by the vehicle door" is interesting; I don't yet know the context of how it happened. "Either his hand was trapped or his entire body was trapped," said sheriff's office spokeswoman Carol Capas. "Somehow, he was dragged 20 feet."

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Courtesy of a contact at State Police in Hermosillo, here are a couple photos of the suspect arrested Tuesday in Cd. Obregón, Jesus Navarro Montes. He will likely be charged as the driver of the Hummer that struck and killed U.S. Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar near Yuma, Ariz., Saturday.

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Sounds like the U.S. Border Patrol was involved in a shooting in eastern Arizona about half an hour ago (10 a.m.).

My sources tell me the incident occurred at Double Adobe Road and Highway 191, about 6 miles north of Highway 80.

A secondary source is reporting that the Cochise County Sheriff's Office is also on scene and have told this person that the area is going to be closed to the public for "most of the day." Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and an ambulance are all on scene. You Douglas readers, you know what to do.

-- Michel Marizco