The following video provides information regarding a US Border Patrol agent involved shooting on March the 3rd, 2024 near Otay Mesa, San Diego, California. CBP is committed to being a leader in law enforcement accountability and transparency. The actions following the agent involved shooting were captured on multiple agents body warn cameras. That footage is being released today in compliance with CBP policy and the May 25th, 2022 executive order on advancing effective accountable policing and criminal justice practices to enhance public trust and public safety. CBP began issuing bodywn cameras in 2021 and continues to expand their deployment nationwide. Bodywn cameras are worn at chest level and capture a general perspective within line of sight from that angle. The camera angle prohibits viewers from seeing everything the agent or officer saw and experienced. Upon activation, both audio and video will turn on. However, there is a 2-minute buffer of video without audio from prior to activation. This feature is designed to capture incidents that occur suddenly where an agent or officer does not immediately activate their camera. On March 3rd, 2024, at approximately 5:00 a.m., US Border Patrol tactical unit, BORTAC, Border Patrol agents were conducting operations in the Puebla Tree area of the Otay Mountains, approximately 5 miles east of the Ot Mesa port of entry. Bortac was actively monitoring this area where there's a road winding through the mountains because of recent reports of armed robberies and assaults targeting groups of migrants crossing into the United States. A small group of Bortech agents were concealed approximately 70 yards north of the border along a ravine near the road. Additional Bortech agents, including a precision marksmen, were positioned on high ground approximately 275 yards away, providing overwatch of the area. Investigators, including CBP OPR special agents, interviewed migrants who were apprehended in the area minutes after the shooting. Based on their interviews, a group of migrants were walking on the road in the early morning hours when they were approached by four individuals, at least one of whom was armed with a handgun. According to the witnesses, the armed individual demanded money from the group, racked his pistol to chamber around, and pointed the weapon at one of the migrants. The migrants heard a single gunshot and observed the armed individual fall to the ground. The Borak agents involved in the incident reported a similar description of events. They observed the armed individual threaten the migrants, chamber a round, and point a gun at one of the migrants, at which time the Bortac precision marksman fired one round, striking the armed individual. At approximately 6:56 a.m., a Bortac agent located approximately 30 yards away from the subject who had been shot, fired a less lethal 40mm launcher two times, deploying two chlorobenzeline malano nitrial CS gas munitions, which formed a cloud in the area. Bortech agents reportedly observed three individuals run away from the area and head south towards Mexico. At approximately 6:57 a.m., Bortech agents approached the subject who had been shot. Footage of the agent involved shooting was not captured on any of the agents bodywn cameras. The bodywn camera videos will show the agents actions following the shooting. These videos contain graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised. The first two minutes were recorded during the buffer period and do not have audio. Hey, we got to clear up here the road dent. Whatever blind spot right there. The following is bodywn camera video from an agent at the scene of the incident. [Music] Keep covering her, guys. Keep covering her, guys. They're coming [Music] now. Copy. Additional arm south. Additional arm south. Keep keep covering them. Keep covering them. That's copy you're getting eyes on. At approximately 6:59 a.m. Bortac agents broadcast over service radio that shots had been fired. The following are US Border Patrol radio transmissions from the incident. Just relay. There's been shots fired out of publicry. Copy. What's your start number? That's for relaying for other agents down there. At approximately 7:02 a.m., a Bortech agent who was providing overwatch to the Bortac agents that approached the subject on the ground again advised over service radio that shots had been fired and agents were setting up a perimeter while clearing the area to ensure the scene was secure. At approximately 7:05 a.m., a Bortac agent requested medical assistance from Border Patrol agent, emergency medical technicians, and emergency medical services via service radio. The following is bodywn camera video from an agent at the scene of the incident. This is report um shots fired at um PBL tree. Um subject um um seems to be down um agent fired um one shot subject down at Pueblo. This is about um a few minutes down. We're setting up a east perimeter and a west perimeter. east perimeter at um the or close to that would be the uh and then a west burner setup at center um QRF or um board QRF They're still clearing the area. Master was broken up. But we need a a western perimeter set at and not let anybody pass that location. Still clearing the area. There's still um armed subjects south of our QRF right now. Um at this point it's not not quite uh clear yet. I have any else going to the bodies that ran the need to keep them. Yeah. Hold them. Yeah, I know. We We'll have to do that. We We will find them. Hey, good copy. East perimeter. Let me know when you're set. Hey, there's another one south. You need to keep looking for that cuz I can't. I'm on radio. Yeah, we're going to say a firm on the EMS. Um but at this point at this point have EMS um rolling uh still trying to make sure that the scene is clear and um we'll have um Forstar or AMT um get down there and provide um measures um once once it's on clear. The following is bodywn camera video from an agent at the scene of the incident. He's getting flipped over. May see got fire this firearm. He's getting flipped over. See if we can find this where this firearms at. He might still be on it. See where is it? Okay, find a fire. I don't see any exit. See anywhere? No. There it is. Right there. Okay. Just leave it as as is. Okay. Keep an eye around me, man. I'm going to start putting gauze in this guy. Anything there? Answer. Anything? Where's the other one? I found Hey, I got some uh some old dogs here. That's fine. I don't see any other uh entry or exit rooms. No, that was the only entry one right there. I heard two shots, but now he had the weapon. The impact made him throw it over here. Where's it? Should be somewhere over here. Let me push up. They just need with them cuz I can't see them. Just Just hold let them hold in place. I hear right by the barrier. You see any of uh the drone subject? So Hey, you want me to make it up there? I got Okay. No, just stop. Hey, just continue holding. Make sure those guys don't double back. As long as you can see this up here. We got over one. Yeah. Yeah. Right here. I got visual. They're right here at the at the Yeah. I don't know. Just let no continue. Uh just watching our our east side. Hey, scene secure. Head down. Head down. There relay we got to split to head down our way. Vortac agents applied pressure to the gunshot wound for approximately 13 minutes until a border patrol agent EMT and another Border Patrol agent, a former EMT, arrived on scene at approximately 7:16 a.m. The Border Patrol agents performed a medical assessment of the armed individual and assumed medical care responsibility until emergency medical services arrived on the scene. The following is bodywn camera video from an agent at the scene of the incident. Do you know the status of EMS? Yeah, I'm going start ventilating them. Uh what should I relay? No, unresponsive. No vitals. Yeah, just relay unresponsive. No vitals. Uh you can say police addressing to a GSW 556 GSW to the uh or I don't GSW to the uh applied at 720. Um no vitals since 7:22 and uh NPA and OPA have been applied. Gotcha. Um, what are your suggestions? Bring EMS here. Take it to EMS. We could we could move them. Uh, it'd be easier to have the EMS here. Yeah, it seems seems secure enough. Yeah. At approximately 7:59 a.m., San Diego County Fire Authority EMS personnel arrived at the scene of the shooting and assumed control of providing emergency medical care to the wounded individual. They applied an introvenous line and continued CPR on the wounded individual. The following is bodywn camera video from an agent at the scene of the incident. If you haven't already, notify EMS on scene. Hello. Sorry. Male subject uh approximately about 710. Gunshot. Uh shot where? They could give you more information on that, but it looks like abdomen in the chest. Single. Single. Yes. Okay. How long have they been doing? 710. Uh 710 initial shots. Yes. about an hourgo. Yeah, EMS were on scene or I mean I'm sorry. These EMTs were on scene uh 8 minutes after copyr get them on the pads. At approximately 8:14 a.m. after telephonically consulting with local EMS at the scene of the shooting, a physician at Sharp Gmont Hospital pronounced the wounded individual deceased. The deedent was identified as a 32-year-old male citizen of Mexico. Investigators recovered a 45 caliber Glock 36 pistol near the deedent's body. The pistol contained one round in the chamber and four rounds in the magazine. Following this encounter, agents apprehended 17 migrants in the area. Of the 17, nine migrants reportedly witnessed the incident. The three individuals who were possibly armed were not apprehended, absconded from the area, and reportedly fled into Mexico. On March 5th, 2024, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy of the deceased individual. The autopsy report is pending. This incident is currently under investigation by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility. The investigation is still in the early stages. Once the investigation has concluded, CBP's National Use of Force Review Board will review the incident. CBP will share the results of the board review once it is complete. Links to this video, as well as public statements about this and other incidents and key accountability related policies and data, can be found online at cbp.gov/transparency.