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Arizona rancher charged in migrant's killing faces jury trial

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The victim was among a group of migrants crossing George Alan Kelly's cattle ranch last year.

PHOENIX — An Arizona rancher went 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.

Kelly shot at a group of unarmed migrants who were walking through his nearly 170-acre cattle ranch in the Kino Springs area, and Cuen-Buitimea was among them, authorities said.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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