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Updating the biblical description of Christ as a Good Shepherd who “lays down his life for the sheep,” a metaphor for Christ’s sacrifice of his own life to ensure the salvation of sinners, Luis Jiménez’s El Buen Pastor references the 1997 murder of 18-year-old high school student and shepherd, Esequiel Hernández Jr. Hernández was tending to his sheep close to the U.S. / Mexico border where troops had been deployed in order to stop the movement of drugs. With his flock having recently been the victim of attacks by local wildlife, Hernández shot his rifle into the distance at what he thought was a wild dog. Little did he know that this was actually a camouflaged group of three U.S. Marines who fired back, killing Hernández. Jiménez’s print depicts the young Hernández as a saintly figure who, with a lamb cradled in his left arm, holds up his right hand as if miming the now all too common “don’t shoot!” to the crouched gunmen depicted in the background. The halo-like circle around the figure’s head is ironically depicted as the crosshairs of the lethal weapon.