The following video provides information regarding a US Border Patrol involved shooting that occurred on February 12th, 2025 in Brownsville, Texas. Customs and Border Protection is committed to being a leader in law enforcement accountability and transparency. A portion of this incident was captured on multiple agents bodywn cameras. Footage from the bodywn cameras is being released today in compliance with CBP policy. 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 the line of sight from that angle. The camera angle prevents viewers from seeing everything the agent or officer saw and experienced. Activation of the camera enables both audio and video. However, there is a continuous two-minute buffer of video without audio 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 February 12th, 2025, Border Patrol agents assigned to the US Border Patrol Fort Brown station flex team in Brownsville, Texas, were conducting ground surveillance to deter smuggling activities at a location approximately 17 miles east of the Veterans Bridge port of entry and 004 miles north of the Rio Grand River. The Fort Brown Flex team received a call from SpaceX security regarding unusual activity occurring near the Rio Grand River between the United States and Mexico. At approximately 6:40 p.m. Central Standard Time, Fort Brown BPA located a group of individuals occupying a GMC Denali pickup truck near a boat ramp off Highway 4 in Brownsville, Texas. BPA reported that they believed the subjects were attempting to smuggle firearms into Mexico using a boat. During the encounter, a BPA discharged his CBP issued M4 rifle at one of the subjects who was armed with an Anderson AM-15 firearm. The subject, a citizen of Mexico, was struck in the abdomen. BPA secured the scene and subsequently apprehended three additional illegal aliens and recovered the firearm. BPA rendered aid to the subject by applying pressure to his entry and exit wound until local emergency medical services personnel arrived. There were no reported injuries to BPA involved in this incident. The following is an animated overhead recreation of the incident. Please note that it is not to scale and is for illustration purposes only. The first video shown will be from this agent's point of view. As the agent approaches the driver of the vehicle, the driver side rear passenger exits the vehicle brandishing an Anderson AM15 rifle. Another responding agent approaches the rear of the vehicle as the armed subject makes his way around the vehicle. At the time of this incident, this agent was not issued a bodywn camera. The agent discharges his CBP issued M4 rifle multiple times, striking the subject in the abdomen. Upon hearing the shots fired, two more agents respond to the scene and secure the subject and the weapon. This agent's perspective is the second angle shown in the video. The following is bodywn camera video footage from agents at the scene of the incident. The first two minutes were recorded during the buffer period and do not have audio. These videos contain graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, I got the driver. I got the driver. Hey. Gentlemen, gentlemen. Hey, watch him. Watch him. Steer to your left. To your left. Did you hear the bags? Hey, voices. There's at least another body. Hey, show me your [ __ ] hand. Show me your [ __ ] hand. The boat. The boat. The boat. The boat. Yeah. Don't worry about the boat. I get the I get the bags. Hey, cover me. I'll cover this guy. and reduh. Hey, he's shot. security. I got to get her in [Music] sweep. Everybody handcuff handle too. radio gunshot coming out of here. He already did. He already did. Away. Right. Yeah. He pulled out a fireman. [Music] Who moved this? The fire. I got the fire. Hey, you hot? You hot? I'm hot. Yeah, I'm hot. What else is there? What else is in here? No, no, no, no. We just got the driver out. It should just be him. [Music] EMS4. Hey, give me give me a kit. Give me a kit. Give me a kit. way. Okay. The bus is going. Okay. He's through the belly button out his his upper buttock. All you guys found was just that one weapon. The other ones took off running, dude. Can I get a condition on the footage? Subject is conscious. Breathing. It's going to be a lower abdomen gunshot wound. on scene with that uh if you could just start applying pressure and have your eyes starting. He's got an exit wound. Just put one of those u huge gauses on the back. See if you can stop the window. Hey, get your alley lights over here. Right here, bro. He's talking pretty calm and everything. Somebody hold the light for me, please. Get that shirt off. Who's got trauma shoes? Give me a trauma. You're okay. You're okay. You're okay. Hey, did they take the Dude, I only saw him grab that one and I grabbed the driver. And where's the bags and [ __ ] No bags. I didn't have visual bags. [Applause] You're all right. [Music] Give me your rag. You got a rag? It's back there, bro. Need to get pressure on this exit wound. Yeah. Give me another rag to get pressure on the exit wound. Let's go. Pull security. Give me another red. Keep his head up. Keep his head up. Who's got a No. Sorry, buddy. Give me another Give me your [ __ ] B flour or some [ __ ] bro. I need something to get uh pressure on his butt. He's bleeding out on his butt right here. Is there more bodies? Nobody's wearing the river for now. Hold security on the river. Somebody keep security on these two. Driver. That's the driver. This driver right here. Not me. On me. We patt him down or what? Yeah, I patted him down. I pat him down. It could be somebody who's not pulling security to get pressure on his exit wound. I got it. Where's the Where's the weapon? The weapon secured. Weapon. Make sure you get a photo of that [ __ ] Yeah. Photos in a second. Make sure EMS is in route. Yeah. EMS is in route. You're right. You're right. Yeah. Everybody just calm down a little bit. We got the scene secure. You got security. We're good. I know. I know. You're good. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. You got the rest of the saw across came out this way. Yo, are you doing anything right now? [Music] [Music] He knows his name. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, we got if you need to be in comfort. You don't want to You want to keep him on his side, dude? He got a gun. No, no. I'm saying like right now like in pain or whatever, if he needs to move a little bit. Yeah. Medical aid continued to be provided by Border Patrol agents until the arrival of EMS. The subject was then transported to the hospital for further care. US Customs and Border Protection, Office of Professional Responsibility, and the Cameron County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is pursuing a Title 18 USC 111 charge against the subject who had a weapon. The Cameron County Sheriff's Office is also investigating the incident. CBP's National Use of Force Review Board will review this incident at the conclusion of the investigation. 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.