FILE - George Alan Kelly enters court for his preliminary hearing in Nogales Justice Court in Nogales, Ariz., Feb. 22, 2023. The Arizona rancher goes on trial Friday, March 22, 2024, in the fatal shooting of a migrant on his property near the boundary with Mexico. – An Arizona rancher goes on trial Friday in the fatal shooting of a migrant on his property near Mexico as the national debate over border security heats up ahead of this year's presidential election.
He was arrested and charged last year in the Jan. 30, 2023, shooting of 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea of adjacent Nogales, Mexico, just south of the border. Kelly’s lawyer has said her client shot into the air above the migrants and he feared for his safety and that of his wife and the property.Cuen-Buitimea also entered the U.S. illegally several times and was convicted and deported, most recently in 2016, court records show.
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