15-Year-Old Smuggler Shot While Trying to Run Down Deputy in Texas

Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe in Brackettville, Texas, on Jan. 18, 2022. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—A 15-year-old was shot and injured during a traffic stop early on May 9 after he allegedly tried to run over a sheriff’s deputy, according to Brad Coe, sheriff of Kinney County, a rural border county in south Texas.

The teen was smuggling five illegal aliens in his vehicle when he was stopped by Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and a sheriff’s deputy.