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Luis Alberto Aguilar
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Senior Border Patrol Agent

Luis Alberto Aguilar

United States Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection - United States Border Patrol — Washington, DC
Felonious
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End of Watch January 19, 2008
Age 31
Tour of Duty 6 yrs
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Gender Male
Incident Media Service The Sacrifice Memorials 1 Department 62

Incident

Location: California Weapon: Automobile Offender: Convicted of murder

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 the driver of the Hummer.

Both vehicles fled into Mexico, where the suspect who struck Agent Aguilar was later apprehended. A second suspect turned himself in to authorities in the United States. The suspect who was apprehended in Mexico was later released by Mexican authorities who claimed there was no international arrest warrant for his arrest. He was re-arrested in Mexico in February 2009 and extradited to the United States in January 2010 to face murder charges.

In April 2011 the subject was convicted of second degree murder and related charges.

Agent Aguilar had served with the Border Patrol for six years and was assigned to the Yuma Sector.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife, two children, brother, and sister.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Senior Border Patrol Agent Aguilar gave the United States Department of Homeland Security 6 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Senior Border Patrol Agent Aguilar.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department United States Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection - United States Border Patrol
Type Federal Agency
Location Washington, DC
Platform Identity usdhscbpusbpfed.fed.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 19, 2008
Tour of Duty 6 yrs
Age 31
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious
Cause Detail Vehicular assault
Weapon Automobile

The Sacrifice · Felonious

Luis is one of 15,743 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% of the 27,551 remembered there.

34,117 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 2008, 65 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 113th heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Luis was 31. Of the 14,220 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38. Luis had served 6 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

January holds 8% of these deaths in the United States; December holds the most, 9.4%. Saturdays: 16.3%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Felonious deaths account for 57.1% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the most common cause. The weapon recorded was automobile, in 4.9% of these deaths.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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His people

United States Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection - United States Border Patrol has 63 officers remembered here, Luis among them.

Across the years
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Where

Senior Border Patrol Agent Luis Alberto Aguilar

United States Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection - United States Border Patrol · End of Watch January 19, 2008

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 10-E

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