Ghastly story deserved more attention

In a Nov. 21 AP story, Christine Fernando mentioned all of the details but it was difficult to follow how ghastly this all this was:

Prosecutors had accused Marimar Martinez, 30, of using her vehicle to strike Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum's car. Agent Exum exited his car and opened fire on this lady and shot her seven times, according to reports. Later in text messages, Agent Exum bragged, “I fired five rounds and she had seven holes. Put that in your books boys.” Agent Exum was allowed to drive his vehicle back to Maine even though it was possibly critical evidence.

Ms. Fernandez was charged with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon — a vehicle.

Now after the defense attorneys challenged the facts, claiming that it was Agent Exum who steered into Ms. Martinez, “prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss the charges … making a dramatic reversal in one of the most closely watched cases tied to the crackdown in and around the country's third largest city.”

Since this happened in Chicago and was such a ghastly miscarriage of justice it should have been on Page 1.

Jack Halpin

Arlington Heights