Police killings
2013-2020

Maria Isabel Garcia

Female, Hispanic

Date of the incident: 1/26/2016

Brownsville, Cameron, TX
5000 Camelia Street

Off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent Juan Hernandez, 44, was sitting in his vehicle on Camelia Street with his unnamed girlfriend when the woman's ex-boyfriend, identified as 21-year-old Jesse Garcia drove up, police said. Garcia approached the driver's side of the agent's car and allegedly pointed a pistol at Hernandez. The two men reportedly struggled with the gun and Hernandez was shot in the leg. Garcia fled and was discovered a short time later at his family home. When deputies and police approached Garcia opened fire. He said officers returned fire. Garcia was struck in the leg, arm and torso. During the gunbattle Garcia's mother, 57-year-old Maria Isabel Garcia, came out of her house and was shot in the back and killed.