Bodycam video released in shooting of Tohono O'odham man

Raymond Mattia had tossed a sheathed machete in front of a Tohono O’odham Nation Police Department officer as Border Patrol agents and a police officer approached and moments before he was shot.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection released body camera footage of the fatal May 18 Border Patrol shooting of a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation.

The video release comes more than a month after three agents from the Ajo Border Patrol Station shot and killed Mattia, 58, outside of his home in the Menagers Dam Village of the Tohono O'odham Nation. Agents shot Mattia several times after he took his hand out of his jacket pocket while he was holding something.

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