For Star subscribers: Phone records and body-cam video should clarify why agents showed up at Raymond Mattia's house on the Tohono O'odham Nation May 18 and ended up killing him. History also plays a role.
Tim Steller Raymond Mattia’s concerns about the growing influence of smugglers in his distant corner of the Tohono O’odham Nation prompted him to speak out.That was 21 years ago, in 2002. Mattia’s tip about the bad effects of organized crime in his area inspired me to write a long, front-page story in the Star. Among other things, he said, Tohono O’odham police were usually too far away to help when trouble arose.
In an interview with The Arizona Republic, Annette Mattia, Raymond’s sister and neighbor, said she was on the phone with him just before the shooting occurred. On Saturday, a couple of dozen people, some of them relatives of Mattia or from his village, protested in Tucson outside the Border Patrol’s sector headquarters on East Golf Links Road.
The existence of video evidence that was going to be released necessitated a full explanation of what the public was going to see. This alone is a good result of the use of body cams. Plenty to question in shootingOn May 22, the Border Patrol gave a detailed account of their version of the killing of Raymond Mattia, also four days after it happened in this case. Again, it relied heavily on the body-cam video we will eventually see, at least in an edited form.
Beyond whether Mattia called for help and what prompted the gunfire, the investigation ought to be able to answer some other key questions, such as: The fact that the line between Anglo colonial world and the Spanish colonial world found its angle of repose across O’odham lands is what made places like Menagers Dam centers of smuggling that federal agents frequent.
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