A $25 million suit against the United States filed by the family of a 15-year-old Juárez boy who was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent on the Rio Grande has been dismissed.

The suit, filed by the family of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Güereca, alleged that the Border Patrol agent "negligently, wrongfully and tortuously caused the death of Güereca" on June 7, 2010, near the Paso del Norte Bridge.

Senior U.S. District Judge David Briones dismissed the case Aug. 11, according to court documents. The ruling basically says that because the boy was shot in Mexico, there are no statutes that would apply in suing the U.S. government.

The shooting of the boy made international news and was videotaped on a cellphone on the Mexican side of the border.

According to the suit, Border Patrol Agent Jesus Mesa Jr. was patrolling on a bicycle when he came upon a group of boys who had been running up a concrete drainage culvert and touching the U.S. fence line.

When Mesa detained one of the boys, the rest of the group allegedly began to throw rocks at the agent. Mesa then raised his firearm and fired shots at the group, striking Hernández Güereca twice, once fatally in the head.

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