The mother of a Mexican teen who was reportedly shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents is now seeking justice for her son, dubbing the incident as "brazen and lawless."

Araceli Rodriguez, together with her legal team and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), sued the border police who shot her 16-year-old son, Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, two years ago.

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Her legal team described the killing that transpired on October 10, 2012 as 'senseless and unjustified' which violated the teen-aged boy's Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights citing that the action taken was illegal and unnecessary.

According to his grieving mother, Jose Antonio received 10 bullets in the back from the Border Patrol agents in Arizona while he was walking home in Nogales, Mexico after playing basketball with his friends.

"I'm looking for justice. I want to see the faces of my son's killers," Rodriguez had told The Arizona Republic during an interview earlier this year.

Autopsy reports indicated that the victim received seven bullets in the back which was the cause of his immediate death.

The lawsuit filed by the group in a federal district court in Tucson, with the support of ACLU, seeks damages against an unspecified number of border patrol agents and trial by a jury.

Meanwhile, though a border patrol spokesman said that the agency does not remark on a pending investigation, they explained that border patrol agents were acting in response to reports about drug trafficking during the day Jose Antonio was killed.

They also claimed that they fired at a group that started hurling rocks at them from the Mexican side across the border.

Reports have shown the boy's lifeless body positioned face down along a sidewalk south of the metal border fence.

"He was not committing a crime, nor was he throwing rocks, using a weapon, or in any way threatening U.S. Border Patrol agents or anyone else," the lawsuit explained citing that Jose Antonio was alone as he walked down the street as confirmed by a security guard named Isidro Alvarado who witnessed how the boy died.

In March, border patrol leaders had directed agents to take cover or move away whenever assaulted by plummeting rocks from across the border instead of immediately using deadly force.

They have also been ordered by Customs and Border Protection's guidelines to issue verbal warning before firing whenever possible.

TagsJose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, U.S. Border Patrol, border crisis