On the morning of May 12, 2011, Lead Border Patrol Agent Eduardo Rojas Jr., and his partner Border Patrol Agent Hector R. Clark, were killed when their government vehicle was struck by a freight train. The accident occurred near the intersection of Interstate 8 and Paloma Road, approximately nine miles west of Gila Bend, Arizona. Agents Rojas and Clark were assisting other agents in pursuit of a group of suspected illegal aliens at the time of the accident.
Agent Rojas entered on duty with the U.S. Border Patrol on April 9, 2000, as a member of the 432nd Session of the Border Patrol Academy. Upon graduating from the academy he was assigned to the Yuma Station in the Yuma Sector. Agent Rojas was serving as a Lead Border Patrol Agent in the Yuma Sector at the time of his death. He was a native of El Paso, Texas, and a graduate of Irvin High School.
Agent Rojas was 34 years old, and is survived by his wife and two children.