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Posted on July 9, 2012 at 7:20 AM
Updated today at 7:32 AM
PHOENIX -- The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California are expected to release new information about the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
The FBI says it needs the public's help finding the fugitives involved in his murder.
Terry's December 2010 death in a shootout with drug smugglers near the U.S.-Mexican border in Southern Arizona has been a major element in the Fast and Furious investigation.
Two of the guns linked to Terry's murder were traced back to the failed ATF "gun-walking" program that was supposed to lead investigators to high-level arms dealers who had eluded prosecution. Instead, those weapons landed in the hands of violent criminals.
Terry's family filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government earlier this year.
"I don't know if there is ever an amount or enough of an amount of money to compensate people for the enormity of the loss of a loved one," Pat McGroder, the attorney representing Terry's parents, told 3TV in an exclusive interview last month.
"They're not doing well," McGroder said of his clients. "They've lost their son and they don't have a reasonable explanation as to why he died the way he did. … The idea that he was killed by the very guns that 10 months before were sitting in a Phoenix gun shop is repulsive."
Shortly after Terry's death, the U.S. Border Patrol announced that four people had been arrested. One month later, the U.S. Marshals Service in Tucson said two more had been arrested.
At the time, the six suspects were being held on felony immigration charges and had not been charged in Terry's death.
Charges were later dropped against three of the suspects after the U.S. Attorney's Office said there was no evidence connecting them to the crime. Those three men were eventually deported to Mexico.
Three members of the ring accused of buying the rifles founds at the scene of Terry's death pleaded guilty to felony weapons charges earlier this year.
Off the more than 2,000 weapons believed to have been purchased as part of Fast and Furious, about 1,400 are still missing.
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