A late-night crash scene on South Padre Island turned deadly last year when a federal immigration agent shot and killed a 23-year-old man from San Antonio. The killing was reported locally at the time, but newly reviewed internal records show it was a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fired the fatal shots, a detail that did not surface publicly until this week, as reported by Newsweek.
FOIA Records Pull Back the Curtain
Internal incident files from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, reviewed by Newsweek, state that HSI’s Harlingen BEST Maritime Group was helping South Padre Island police work a major crash on March 15, 2025. According to those records, one vehicle at the scene did not follow officers’ commands, agents moved…..