[1][2][3] Claudia Patricia Gómez González was born 9 February 1998 in the village of La Unión Los Mendoza in the municipality of San Juan Ostuncalco, a rural area near Quetzaltenango, Guatemala to Gilberto Gómez Vicente and Lidia González Vasquez.
[5] Planning to stay with her aunt in Atlanta and find work cleaning houses, she left Guatemala 7 May 2018, accompanied by a paid guide, and on 22 May arrived in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where she was taken to a safe house with other Guatemalans planning to cross the border, and phoned home.
[1] A witness reported Gómez González took a step, and the agent took aim and fired, shooting her in the head, then running into the trailer.
[1][8] The Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) first reported that Gómez González, who was described as petite and timid, and the rest of the group had attacked the officer with blunt objects and resisted arrest, and that he had shot in self-defense.
[5] She streamed the aftermath of the incident, in which she can repeatedly be heard asking why the agent had killed Gómez González.
[1][2][5][9] The video went viral, and the CBP account changed to the group had "allegedly assaulted" and "rushed the agent".