Border Patrol agents who fatally shot an unarmed Native American man on tribal land earlier this year will not face charges for his death. At least three of the 10 agents on scene opened fire on Raymond Mattia outside his home in the Tohono O’odham community of Menagers Dam one night in May. The case was investigated by the Tohono O’odham Police, the FBI and Customs and Border
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It was pitch black when the Border Patrol rolled up to Raymond Mattia’s home on a remote corner of the Tohono O’odham reservation in southern Arizona, investigating a report of gunshots. Border agents, smugglers and migrants were a familiar sight in the tiny desert village a mile from the southern border where the Mattia family had lived for decades. Mattia often patrolled his property with a flashlight, his family said. That night in May, Mattia told an older sister over the phone that he was h