Dominga Vicente shows a picture of her relative Claudia Gomez, a Guatemalan immigrant killed by an US Border Patrol officer on Wednesday while entering illegally to Texas, during a news conference in Guatemala City, Guatemala May 25, 2018. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The family of a 19-year-old Guatemalan woman killed by a U.S. border patrol officer called on Friday for the United States to dial-back its rhetoric on migrants, after President Donald Trump described gang members entering the country as "animals."
The woman, identified by her family as Claudia Gomez, was shot on Wednesday in south Texas by an officer who opened fire after several people "rushed him," the Border Patrol said in a statement on Friday. The agency, alternately describing them as "illegal aliens" and "a group of suspected illegal aliens," said Gomez was among them.
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