Xavier Guadalupe Magdaleno served in the U.S. Army for 3 years. Xavier served during the years of the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
Struck by train
Location: Texas
Incident Date: Wednesday, May 10, 1989
Border Patrol Agent Xavier Magdaleno succumbed to injuries sustained exactly six years earlier when his patrol vehicle was struck by a Southern Pacific Railroad train near the Mexican border in El Paso, Texas.
He and his partner were pursuing a group of suspected illegal aliens in the railroad yard at W Paisano Drive and Executive Center Boulevard when their vehicle became stuck in rock slag near a crossing at about 10:30 am. An oncoming train struck their vehicle and both agents were ejected from it. The vehicle landed on Agent Magdaleno, causing paralysis from the neck down. He required a ventilator for the next six years until his death.
Agent Magdaleno had served with the United States Border Patrol for nine years.
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In tribute
I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Border Patrol Agent Magdaleno gave the United States Department of Justice 9 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Border Patrol Agent Magdaleno.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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