Sad news from South Texas.
A friend of mines brother, Javier Vega was murdered Sunday while fishing with his family. He was a border patrol agent, and Marine.
He was killed while fishing with his family. Two Mexican nationals approached him, his father, his wife, his mother, his two sons, and a friend of their sons while fishing on Sunday and tried to rob them. They saw Javier's sidearm, and started firing at him. He was struck in the chest and killed, and his father in the hip. The robbers tried to run, and Javier's mother picked up an AR-15 that the robbers had dropped and shot at their vehicle. the bullets hit the vehicle causing it to breakdown a couple miles down the road. The robbers/murderers were caught hiding in a tool shed on someones property. They are being charged with Capital Murder, Attempted Capital Murder, and aggravated robbery.
They also admitted that they had been robbing people fishing around the area, and one has been arrested 4 time for crossing into the US illegally.
Here is more info on the story.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/04/the-heartbreaking-words-police-say-slain-off-duty-border-patrol-agent-told-his-dad-after-they-were-attacked/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons
Here is a press release the border patrol did about his death.
http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=1080096#.U-KprmNmbl4
I didn't know Javier personally, but I grew up with his younger brother. I went to grade school through High school with him and played football with him all those years also. I have met his dad. They are great people, and from what I've heard his brother was just as high caliber person.
Sorry for the depressing post, but I am just very saddened and angered by this. May Javi RIP.