EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Chihuahua state authorities are investigating the shooting death of a young adult presumed to be an American citizen allegedly at the hands of a police officer Sunday in Juarez, Mexico.
The shooting in the middle of a street in the Melchor Ocampo neighborhood near Downtown Juarez was captured on security camera video. The footage shows the blue Ford Mustang coming up on the officer, who’s on foot, make a sharp left inches away from his body, then start to reverse.
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A second video taken by one of the occupants of the blue Mustang that was the target of the officer’s bullets is also circulating on social media. The panicked voice of a passenger inside the vehicle can be heard yelling, “No! No! No! No!” in that second video. Prior to that, the young men had been listening to music and conversing in Spanish.
The vehicle with yellow-and-red New Mexico license plates comes to a stop after it strikes a parked SUV.