TUCSON, Authorities in southern Arizona have identified the second man killed in an ambush on a truckload of illegal immigrants in Eloy. Pima County sheriff's officials released the identity of 40-year-old Juan Baltazar Lopez of Guatemala on Tuesday.
Authorities say Lopez was riding in a truck that was ambushed April 8 by an unknown number of people dressed in camouflage and armed with rifles.
He and another man, 39-year-old Gerardo Perez-Ruiz of Toluca, Mexico, were killed.
Border Patrol agents and police officers from Eloy and Coolidge had responded to a report of shots fired that night in a wash known for human smuggling activity.
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