Senior Agent Luis Aguilar
United States Border Patrol
End of watch: Saturday, January 19, 2008
Biographical Info
Age: 32
Tour of Duty: 6 years
Badge Number: Not available
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Vehicular assault
Date of Incident: Saturday, January 19, 2008
Incident Location: California
Weapon Used: Automobile
Suspect Info: Apprehended
Senior Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar was killed when he was intentionally struck by the driver of a vehicle he was attempting to stop.
Border patrol agents observed a brown Hummer and a red Ford F-250 pickup crossing from Mexico into the United States about 20 miles west of Yuma, Arizona. Agents on normal patrol watched as the vehicles traveled west on I-8. The drivers of the Hummer and the pickup saw that the agents were following them and turned around, heading back the way they had come, with the Border Patrol following them. As Agent Aguilar deployed spike strips, near the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, he was intentionally struck by the driver of the Hummer.
Both vehicles fled into Mexico, where one of the suspects was later apprehended. A second suspect turned himself in to authorities in the United States.
Agent Aguilar had served with the Border Patrol for six years and is survived by his wife and two children. He was assigned to the Yuma Sector.
Arizona Choir Boys LEMC will present a check to the family of Agent Aguilar on Monday, February 4, 2008 at the Border Patrol Headquarters in Yuma, AZ. At 1300 hours.
