Two weeks after two US outskirt watch specialists were found with head wounds by a seepage channel beside an expressway in remote west Texas, how one of them kicked the bucket remains a riddle.
In any event, the late-night occurrence in which 36-year-old Rogelio Martinez kicked the bucket is a bewilder to the FBI, which is examining.
To Donald Trump and two noticeable Texas Republicans, Governor Greg Abbott and US congressperson Ted Cruz, the reason for death was quickly certain: kill.
"Fringe Patrol Officer killed at Southern Border, another severely hurt," Trump tweeted on 19 November, the day after the specialists were harmed. "We will search out and convey to equity those capable. We will, and should, assemble the Wall!"
In comments the next day, Trump depicted the surviving officer as having been "mercilessly beaten".
Abbott approved a $20,000 compensate for data prompting the capture and conviction of those in charge of the "murder".
On 19 November, inside a couple of hours of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) declaring that Martinez had kicked the bucket in healing center in the wake of "reacting to action while on watch", Cruz issued an announcement in which he said the operators had been "assaulted".
The representative additionally said the episode was "a stark indication of the progressing risk that an unsecure fringe postures to the wellbeing of our groups and those accused of protecting them".
It didn't get away from the notice of some of Cruz's online faultfinders that prior in November he went to Sutherland Springs, the day after 25 churchgoers were shot dead there. The congressperson enlightened a correspondent asking regarding firearm control that "it is a grievous thing that the quick place the media pursues any catastrophe, after any murder, is politicizing it".
Representatives for Cruz and Abbott did not instantly react when asked how they confirmed that Martinez was killed and whether this was still what they thought.
Fringe Patrol union delegates have told correspondents they are persuaded it was unfairness and that the specialists were in all likelihood assaulted with rocks.
Be that as it may, Oscar Carrillo, the Culberson area sheriff who is situated in Van Horn, a residential community around 120 miles south-east of El Paso and around 30 miles from the outskirt straight from one point to the other, and went to the scene, told the Dallas Morning News the officers may have been sideswiped by a substantial truck as they remained on the edge of a desolate street where drivers are at risk to lose focus and meander crosswise over paths.
"From the earliest starting point we were radioed to aid the occurrence as damage, not an ambush," he said. "That is how it was imparted to us.
"On the off chance that this was an attack, trust me, as sheriff, I'd be the first out there accentuating wellbeing in our group and with our agents, matching them up. In any case, from what I know and see, that was not the situation here."
As per a CBP list, Martinez is the 40th fringe watch officer to bite the dust in the line of obligation since December 2003. That incorporates Trena McLaughlin, who passed on of liver disappointment in 2009 in the wake of contracting hepatitis C because of being "screwed over thanks to a syringe while looking through a vehicle" in 1994. Of the other 38 fatalities, 32 came about because of mischances, warm related ailments or regular causes. In the 2016 financial year there were about 20,000 fringe watch specialists across the country.
Far off from significant populace focuses and including troublesome territory, the CBP's Big Bend Sector, where Martinez passed on, is moderately calm. It sees the least misgivings along the south-west outskirt: 1.6% of the aggregate in the last monetary year.
In any case, the attestation of murder, probably by Mexican medication or individuals dealers, suited Trump's story that the wilderness is uncertain and needing a divider and that numerous settlers as of now in the US speak to a security danger.
This week, Trump railed against the choice of a San Francisco jury to absolve an undocumented Mexican settler accused of the murder of Kate Steinle, whose passing he refered to amid his presidential battle.
Full post-mortem examination comes about on Martinez's body have not yet been discharged. The anonymous operator who survived was discharged from doctor's facility yet allegedly does not recall what happened.
The FBI has been wary. It held a detail-light question and answer session on 21 November in which Emmerson Buie Jr, the specialist accountable for the office's El Paso division, named the occasion a "potential ambush".
The likelihood of a mischance has not been discounted. Could the men have fallen into the duct beneath Interstate 10 close Van Horn, in a piece of the state which has a portion of the darkest night skies in the nation?
On Thursday, the FBI issued an announcement with respect to what it called an "unfortunate occurrence" and reporting a battle to keep running on computerized boards in south-west fringe states from 30 November to 8 December, featuring "a FBI reward of up to $45,000 for data prompting the determination of the examination concerning the passing".
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