Witness in Case of Mexico's Missing 43 Students Seeks U.S. Asylum
Source: NBC News
Witness in Case of Mexico's Missing 43 Students Seeks U.S. Asylum
by Brian Latimer
May 18 2016, 3:48 pm ET
In the hours after 43 students at the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in Mexico went missing, Carmelo Ramirez Morales sped to the scene where the students were taken away and gave a late-night press conference to local journalists. Then he hid from a hail of bullets. Now he is applying for asylum in Minnesota.
In an interview with Mila Koumpolova, an immigration reporter at the Star Tribune, Morales, 20, shared his story of that night on September 24, 2014, his experience with the local police and the threats he receives for trying to share his story.
Morales said in the interview that several cars, one of which appeared to belong to the police, rolled up to his press conference hours after the students went missing, and men began shooting toward the reporters and students. Morales said he brought someone who had been shot in the face to the local hospital, where army members detained and questioned him for two hours.
The morning after Morales said he went to the Iguala attorney general's office to identify the officers involved. After pointing the officers that shot at him, Morales said he walked past them while leaving the office.
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