Things you need to know about the shooters and victims at the Dallas Ice Detention Center
New details have been revealed about the suspects and victims of the Dallas Ice Detention Center shooting. At least one of the victims was a Mexican national.
The second detainee shot and killed at a Dallas immigration and customs enforcement facility on September 24th, died of his injuries, according to a Latino civil rights group representing his family.
Miguel Angel Garcia Harnandez was stationed on a nearby rooftop on September 24th and was one of three detainees who were in danger at the hospital. He died after being taken from life support, the organization announced on September 30th. His wife previously identified him as Miguel Angel García Medina on USA Today.
“My husband, Miguel, was a good man, a loving father and a provider of our family,” his wife, Stephanie Gofeny, said in a statement provided by LeLac. “We just bought our first house together and he worked hard every day to make sure our kids had what they needed.”
Garcia, 31, leaves behind his wife and four children, taking fifth place along the way. Gauffeny previously told USA Today that her husband had earned ice custody following the DUI, but had plans to stay in the US and keep the family together.
“He was happy,” Gofeny said when he spoke to Garcia on the September 23rd call. He’ll go home.
Authorities identified 29-year-old Joshua Yarn as the suspect who climbed onto a nearby roof and fired a fire at an ice facility, and attacked detainees in a van at Surry Port before taking his own life. Federal officials said the suspect was targeting ICE agents.
Nolan Guzman Fuentes was also fatally shot in the attack, according to official records and Lelack.
Gofeny said that after her husband was shot, he was tied up and restrained in a hospital bed, his face was swollen and dried blood was lining his forehead on his face, neck and bed sheet. He was shot about eight times in the shoulder, stomach, tailbone and neck, causing a stroke.
“It was terrible for him to meet like that,” she told USA Today.
Eric Cedillo, national legal counsel for the United Latin American Citizens’ Federation, said Garcia was trying to gain permanent residency despite a violation of the DUI and was brought to the United States as a teenager from Mexico. Gauffeny, a US citizen, sponsored him for the first approved I-130 visa, Cedillo previously told USA Today.
“His death is a meaningless tragedy that shattered our family. We don’t know how to explain to our children that our father is gone,” Gofeny said in a statement provided by Lelack.
(This story has been updated to add new information)
Contributors: Rick Jarvis and Eduardo Quebas, USA Today
