By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A Border Patrol agent who was killed in southwest Texas was likely “ambushed” and beaten to death by rocks, according to the president of the National Border Patrol Council.
Another agent was seriously injured and remains in the hospital following the attack on Sunday.
Rogelio Martinez, 36, and his partner were patrolling the Big Bend Sector when they came under attack by a group of illegal immigrant, Brandon Judd, president of the labor union, said.
“I have been told by several agents that it was a grisly scene, and that his injuries were very extensive,” Judd said Monday in a phone interview with The Washington Post. “We believe he was struck in the head with rocks, or multiple rocks.”
Both agents received blunt force trauma to the head.
“There were no indications the agents fired their weapons,” Judd told Fox News.
The FBI is now investigating the assault.
Details remain murky because Customs and Border Protection has yet to disclose what happened.
The agents were patrolling near Interstate 10, in the Van Horn Station area, when they were alerted to illegal immigrant traffic.
