The Texas National Guard soldier who reportedly shot across the border in El Paso last week – wounding a Mexican national – has been suspended, Mexico’s president claims.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that he received a report on the soldier’s suspension, without specifying which agency it came from, according to The Associated Press.
López Obrador, who called the shooting on Aug. 26 a “violation of international law,” also said the soldier shot the Mexican man in defense of a migrant who the man was allegedly seeking to harm, and the soldier fired first into the air.