More than 1,000 attend slain agent's funeral

Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 6:05 p.m.

BROWNSVILLE — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told more than a 1,000 mourners at the funeral of slain federal Agent Jaime Zapata that the United States would neither flinch nor relent in seeing that the gunmen who ambushed him on a Mexican highway are brought to justice...Zapata, 32, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent, died Feb. 15 in an attack allegedly by Zeta drug gang members...Napolitano was one of three top members of the Obama administration attending the funeral Mass led by Diocese of Brownsville Bishop Daniel Flores.

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