At least he didn’t throw a rock

(with update)

I don’t know if this is a “man bites dog” type story, or just something to file under “really stupid gringos.”

Stace Medellin at Dos Centavos posted the outline of the story:

An anglo shot a Border Patrol agent!!! Some 21 year old kid was hanging out on the border for some reason. As the SA E-N tells it: “This individual was down there on the river, and set off some electronic sensors that we use to detect incursions. Our officer responded and engaged the individual to discern what he was doing,” said Carlos X.Carrillo, chief patrol agent in Laredo.

Stace left out the best part…

“Mr. Davidson pulled a gun and began firing at our officer. He absconded and apparently swam over to Mexico,” he said.

An extensive manhunt on the U.S. side involving more than 100 officers from various state and federal agencies failed to find the shooter. However, bulletins sent to Mexican police eventually bore fruit.

“He was arrested late Wednesday or early Thursday by the Nuevo Laredo municipal police based on information provided by U.S. law enforcement,” said Carrillo. “He was carrying a knife, and that was the charge they used to detain him. It’s our understanding he was not wounded,” he said.

Dos Centavos speculates the idiot from Lubbock was conected with Border Watch or some other white supremacist group.  The kid’s an Aggie, which a lot of Texans think is practically the same thing.  By any measure, he’s an idiot.

Hell, they should have left him in a Mexican jail.  He looks like a real survivor… not!

 Stupid white boy, Jordan Davidson.  Photo: San Antonio Express-News

UPDATE:

This story gets weirder and weirder…

Julian Agular and Miguel Timoshenkov of the Lardeo Morning Times/El Tiempo covered Davidson’s arrest and the hand-over to the U.S. authorities. Apparently, Davidson was trying to scale the wall around Boy’s Town (the Zona Tolerercia) when he was apprehended at 5:45 in the morning. The pair writes that Davidson

was turned over to U.S. federal authorities at International Bridge I at about 10:30 a.m. and was taken to the Laredo Police Department.

He is charged with attempted capital murder of a federal law enforcement officer. He was being held without bond at Webb County jail late Thursday.

At police headquarters, Davidson had little to say to reporters, generally ignoring questions and turning away from cameras.

At the Nuevo Laredo police station, however, he was more vocal and asked reporters, in a combination of English and broken Spanish, what was going to happen to him. He was told that nothing was going to happen to him in Mexican custody and that he was being sent back to the United States to face charges. He asked about “the murder rate here” and then made several disjointed comments and odd facial expressions.

…

Chief Border Patrol Agent Carlos X. Carrillo said [Border Partrol Agent Jesus H.] Aguilar was responding to a sensor that had been set off while on the banks of the Rio Grande.

“The agent came into contact with Mr. Davidson to discern what it was he was doing there, and his citizenship,” Carrillo said. “At that point, Mr. Davidson reached into his pocket and drew a weapon and began firing at the officer.”

Martinez said Davidson then fled and Aguilar’s partner pursued the suspect on foot. The agent could not apprehend the attacker, who escaped into the brush.

Carrillo said the weapon Davidson used was a semi-automatic handgun, but provided no further details.

Carrillo said there have been 26 assaults on Border Patrol agents in the area since October 2006, eight of which involved arms of some sort.

He said it is unknown whether Davidson was working with, or for, any other parties. As of Thursday morning, the investigation had not yielded any evidence showing Davidson’s connection to any organized-crime element, he said.

A car that Laredo police said Davidson drove to the area where the shooting occurred, a gold-colored Honda sedan, was taken to a Laredo police lot. It contained a checkbook belonging to Davidson, which listed his city of residence as Bryan. The car also contained a backpack, bottles of water and a Laredo street map. There was a Texas A&M sticker on the rear window.

The admissions department at the university could not be reached to determine whether Davidson is a student at the university at College Station.

 For those not familiar with Texas A & M, it was a state Ag school masquarading as a military academy for many years until the Texas legislature in its wisdom decided it was a real university.  It has some good departments (and is best known for a very good vetranary medicine program), but retains its military “traditions.”  The homoerotic “Corps of Cadets” runs around campus in jackboots and brown shirts, and the football “traditions” are legendary.  It’s the only university I’ve heard of that requires incoming freshmen to attend a “boot camp” basically to guarantee that students will adhere to the “traditions.” 

It’s a very weird place (I lived just off the campus when I first moved to Texas, in a trailer owned by an Iraqi-born geologist teaching at the engineering school there) … just for starters, the George W. Bush Library is there, and Robert Gates was the “reform” president brought in to clean up the school’s unsavory image as a breeding ground for crazies. 

The school was heavily involved in Tom DeLay’s schemes in Micronesia, and at one point had a chemist on staff who actually was trying to transmute base metal into gold.  It also attracted funding from some filthy rich cranks who wanted to clone a dead family dog… science and logic ain’t their strong points. 

Tony Garza, the U.S. Ambasssador to Mexico, was the school’s first Hispanic graduate… and the school’s ties to both Bush administrations are very close. 

A later follow-up by Julian Aguilar quotes Texas A & M officials of saying Davidson is not a student — which makes him even more pathetic… an Aggie wannabe. 

Texans think of Aggies as arrogant boneheads… and if this kid is a pseudo-Aggie, the whole thing is even more bizarre than I thought.