Claudia Gómez González grew up in the indigenous Mayan community of San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala, where the forests and corn fields are bountiful but opportunities are scarce. She studied accounting, but at age 20, she couldn’t find a job and decided to travel 1,500 miles to the United States.

Young Guatemalans — who dream of earning just enough to return to their communities and families, and to construct houses — have often migrated to the U.S. Univision network reported that Goméz dreamed of reuniting with her childhood sweetheart, Yosimar Morales, who had migrated to Alexandria, Virginia, one year prior.

But on May 23, a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent in southern Texas shot Claudia in the head.

“Why do you mistreat them, why did you shoot the girl? You killed her!” witness Marta Martinez screamed at the CBP agents in a Facebook live video from the shooting, which has gone viral. Martinez told the New York Times that the migrants were hiding and unarmed.

The unnamed agent who pulled the trigger is reportedly on administrative leave, accoding to Al Jazeera, and the case is under investigation by the FBI. CBP issued a statement on May 23, saying the agent discovered a group of “illegal aliens” and was subsequently attacked “by multiple subjects using blunt objects.” According to Al Jazeera, CBP later changed this version of the story, saying that Claudia’s group had ignored the agent’s orders to get on the ground and “rushed him.”

Teen Vogue reached out to CBP for comment, and a representative reiterated this version of events: that the agent was rushed by the group Claudia was with, who they say "ignored his verbal commands and instead rushed him." They did not speak to the discrepancy in the two versions.

Claudia’s death at the hands of the agency comes at a time when anti-immigrant sentiment is echoedby a presidential administration that calls certain undocumented immigrants “animals” and repeatedly focuses on efforts to build a multi-billion-dollar wall along the Mexico–United States border. Trump later said that he was only referring to members of the MS-13 gang when he used the degrading term.

After news of Claudia’s death broke, protests in solidarity were held in Washington, D.C., and Laredo, Texas. On June 2, her family and about 1,000 community members received her body and marched her casket through the corn fields of Quetzaltenango to her gravesite.

“She said to me, ‘I am going to succeed, I am going to earn some money so I can keep studying,’ but she unfortunately didn’t succeed,” said her mother, Lidia González, in an interview with HispanTV. Holding back tears, she continued, “My girl, my girl, she’s simply gone.”

Her father, Gilberto Goméz, who was a migrant in the U.S. until he was deported last year, spoke with reporters, saying, “I want whoever did this to her to pay, to feel the pain that I feel, that my whole family feels.”

The Goméz family says they will pursue a lawsuit against the federal agency.

Many Guatemalans face danger on their journey. These migrants are increasingly subject to extortion, kidnapping, murder, and rape as they pass through Mexico on their way north. It is estimated that between 60% and 80% of migrant women and girls are sexually assaulted while they travel to the U.S.