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Teen pleads guilty in violent Border Patrol murder

SAN DIEGO, 11.20.2009

BY ELLIOT SPAGAT , Associated Press Writer

A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in the mountains east of San Diego.

Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez admitted entering the United States illegally to rob a Border Patrol agent, the U.S. attorney's office said. Alvarez said he lured Agent Robert Rosas out of his car on the night of July 23 and read full story...


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