George Alan Kelly was asked for details shortly before 6:00 pm on January 30 after the U.S. Border Patrol received a report from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher regarding an incident on his property. I was called.

Kelly told the dispatcher to send an agent to his ranch immediately.

“I approached the corpses only to make sure the animals were neither vegetables nor minerals,” Kelly told the dispatcher by phone. Nogales International.

“There was no blood, just the animal lying face down,” Kelly said.

When the dispatcher asked, “Is it an animal?” Kelly repeated, “It’s neither a vegetable nor a mineral.” He said he would bring his agent to it.

The sheriff’s deputy later reported that the body of Gabriel Kuhn Buitimer was found that day, January 30, on Kelly’s property in the Kino Springs area near the U.S.-Mexico border, and Kuhn was shot dead.

Kelly, 74, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges in the death of Kuen, 48, in Nogales, Sonora.

Early in the call, Kelly responded to many of the coordinator’s questions with long pauses, acknowledging the vague answers.

“It’s very serious, ma’am, and I can’t do it. I’m not going to talk on the phone,” Kelly said early on.

Without prompting, Kelly said, referring to her “right to remain silent,” she said, “I don’t admit what I did…and I don’t know what happened.”

He also said, “I didn’t shoot. I didn’t say I shot anything.”

In subsequent court testimony, Kelly’s defense attorney said Kelly fired warning shots over a group of illegal immigrants who illegally crossed his property that day.

The prosecution’s position in the case is that Kuhn was unarmed and that Kelly shot him in the back in an unprovoked attack as he fled for his life without warning. According to prosecutors, Kuhn was with a group of about eight illegal immigrants who crossed the border.

The defense says Kelly approached drug smugglers armed with his property and fired warning shots into their heads. That’s what the defense says.

Kelly was originally charged with first-degree murder in the case, but he also pleaded not guilty before the state downgraded to second-degree murder. Prosecutor Kim Hanley said that even though Kelly accidentally shot Kuhn with the intention of firing warning shots, the state accused him of “extreme indifference” to human life that “recklessly caused his death.” He said he could prove he committed second-degree murder.

Kelly’s attorney, Brenna Larkin, countered.

A judge has set a September trial date for Kelly, who was released on February 22 on a $1 million cash guarantee.

There is a self-published book on Amazon called “Far Beyond the Border Fence,” supposedly written by Kelly. The book’s abstract says it is “a contemporary novel that brings the Mexican border/drug conflict into her 21st century.”

Written by a man with the same name as Kelly, the novel focuses on a man named George and his wife Wanda, the name of Kelly’s real-life wife.

“Several times a week, illegal immigrants cross the VMR ranch,” states a passage in the book. “They were led by armed human smugglers called coyotes. George and the foreman had to patrol the ranch daily armed with AK-47s.”