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The shooting sprees that spurred a series of lawsuits shook the city of Harlingen, former Mayor Connie de la Garza said.

"What occurred 10 years ago was very sad and very tragic and I hope an incident like that never happens again in Harlingen," said de la Garza, who took office two months before the shootings. "The situation it caused the victims and also the citizens was unbelievable."

After 10 years, Susan Rodriguez's spirit still fills the Austin home she shared with her daughter Megan, said Gilberto Rodriguez, her husband.

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Today the 10th anniversary of the shootings Border Patrol agents will join him and his wife Elisa in San Antonio when they visit his son's grave, said Salinas, the father of Ricardo Salinas.

Four months earlier, he had moved to Houston to study business and to try to leave the past behind, she said.

"I learned to let go of hate and anger. It's better for her future," he said of his daughter. "But my internal feelings and emotions are still as fresh as ever. I have pictures of my wife and I still miss her like I missed her the first week after she died."

Megan was 2 when her mother Susan Rodriguez became the first female Border Patrol agent to die in the line of duty.

"It was nine years of a lot of Nike Hat Womens White pain," she said of Dan Morin, who was critically wounded July 7, 1998, when his girlfriend's ex fianc used an assault rifle to fire four rounds into his body in his Rio Hondo home. The ambush left sheriff's deputy Raul Rodriguez critically wounded.

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For Rodriguez, time helped open his heart to forgiveness, he said.

For Arturo Salinas, his son's memory helps keep him going, he said.

of the facial gestures that Susan had, and there's no way she could have learned them," Rodriguez said.

For 12 year old Megan, her mother comes to her in her dreams, Rodriguez said.

On Jan. 20, Morin died at 31 after taking a painkiller that may have led to kidney failure, Diana Morin said.

gun safe in his son Ernest's room, where they shared keys to the vault, according to court testimony.

Lawmen killed Moore, 25, in a volley of gunfire near his parents' home.

"She has dreams where her mother is in the dreams and she feels comfort," he said.

"It's been tough and we've struggled but we managed to stay together," Salinas said of his marriage. "We get angry at each other and blame each other. I feel kind of bad that I encouraged him to join the Border Patrol."

Morin was dying of wounds from the bullets that shattered his hip, blasted his intestines and ripped his kidneys, his sister said.

In 2002, a jury handed down a $35 million judgment against the city of Harlingen. District Judge Hilda Tagle dismissed the jury's verdict. But Tagle upheld a separate $500,000 judgment that found the city of Harlingen's negligence led to the shootings.

In 1995, a resident turned over an assault rifle to the Harlingen Police Department, requesting that it be destroyed. Moore took home the rifle that he kept in a Jordan Cap Flexfit

"He was putting his life back together. He was doing good. He wasn't walking with crutches or his cane. But I guess his body was too weak," she said. "He was hurting. He was going through a lot of pain. At least we know now he's with my mom and sister. He's resting."