The lawyer for and Arizona rancher being held on $1 million bond in the fatal shooting of a Mexican on his border property says her client did not shoot and kill the man but did fire warning shots earlier in…
By Anita Snow Associated Press The lawyer for an Arizona rancher being held on $1 million bond says her client did not shoot and kill the Mexican man whose body was found on his property last month near the U.S.-Mexico border, but earlier that day fired warning shots at smugglers carrying AK-47 rifles and big backpacks on his land.
People are also reading… “He does not believe that any of his warning shots could have possibly hit the person or caused the death," she continued. “All the shooting that Mr. Kelly did on the date of the incident was in self-defense and justified.” The victim, Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, lived just south of the border in Nogales, Mexico. U.S. court records show Cuen-Butimea was convicted of illegal entry and deported back to Mexico several times, most recently in 2016.
Kelly apparently drew on his borderlands ranching life in the self-published novel “Far Beyond the Border Fence,” which is described on Amazon.com as a “contemporary novel which brings the Mexican Border/Drug conflict into the 21st century.”
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