For 12 days in 2018, Juan David Ortiz, U.S. Border Patrol supervisory agent, picked up women on the streets of Laredo, Texas, drove them to remote areas and killed them with close-range gunshots to the head. A jury found Ortiz guilty of capital murder.
, 33, a Border Patrol agent in Laredo, and charged him with the murders of Grizelda Hernandez, 27, and her 1-year-old son, Dominic. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty and his trial is tentatively set for January.
Immigrant advocates for years have pushed for more transparency in how the agency disciplines its agents for wrongdoing. Theypoint to a number of cross-border shootings by Border Patrol agents over the years as a troubling trend at the agency. Later, when Ortiz drove her to a nearby convenience store, Peña said he grew irritable when she inquired about her slain friends. He drew a gun on her with his left hand and tried to restrain her with his right. Peña wriggled out of her blouse and fled to a Texas Department of Public Safety state trooper pumping gas at the station. She was able to identify Ortiz and point out his home to investigators, who arrested him later that night.
On one day, as Webb County Medical Examiner Corinne Stern testified and explained autopsy photos of the victims, one juror fainted, halting the proceedings. Stern, a licensed medical doctor, left the witness stand to give him aid. The juror regained consciousness and was later dismissed from the trial.
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