Mexican woman shot in head by US Border Patrol files claim: ‘I am looking for justice’

Marisol Garcia Alcantara was shot shortly after arriving in the US, while riding in an SUV in Arizona

Attorneys for a Mexican woman who was shot in the head by a Border Patrol agent and survived have filed a claim against the US government as a precursor to a federal lawsuit.

The claim filed with the Border Patrol by Marisol Garcia Alcantara, who had arrived in the U.S. shortly before the shooting over the summer in Nogales, Arizona, is necessary before a civil action is filed next year with the US District Court in Tucson.