A Mexican teenager crosses the border between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Ysidro, California, in what should amount to a short and unexceptional adolescent exploit. Two armed U.S. Border Patrol agents spot him and give chase, coming face to face with a group of the lad’s compadres, who cover his scramble home by heaving rocks northward. An agent fires into the group, and a 12-year-old boy, Humberto Carrillo Estrada, takes a bullet in the chest. Later, a U.S. district attorney investigates the incident and finds, contrary to police accounts, that no warning shots were fired. Nevertheless, the DA decides not to prosecute.
If Carrillo’s fate bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Miroslav Medvid, that is not accidental.
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