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A second detainee injured in the fatal shooting at the Dallas ICE field office has died, according to WFAA on Wednesday morning.
“Angel Garcia, 32, succumbed Sept. 30 to injuries sustained in the shooting after being removed from life support, according to a press release from The League of United Latin American Citizens,” the WFAA report stated.
One man, Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, from El Salvador, was killed when a sniper fired his rifle from the roof of a nearby office building before 7 a.m. on Sept. 24. Two others, including Garcia, were injured, before the shooter, 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, according to investigators, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the roof of a nearby office building.
Garcia’s family provided an update on his condition late last week, describing his condition as “grave’ following at least two operations.
“They want to disconnect him, because he is only living on machines. The machines are what is keeping him alive,” Fernando Gutiérrez, Garcia Medina’s brother, told Univision.
“My husband Miguel was a good man, a loving father, and the provider for our family,” his wife, Stephany Gauffeny, said in a news release shared by WFAA. “We had just bought our first home together, and he worked hard every single day to make sure our children had what they needed. His death is a senseless tragedy that has left our family shattered. I do not know how to explain to our children that their father is gone.”
The shooter’s motives are still under investigation. Immediately following the shooting, many top Republican leaders, including U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Vice President J.D. Vance, have characterized the incident as an attack on ICE and law enforcement. Authorities say they do not believe Jahn was targeting detainees at the time of the shooting, and that it was law enforcement officials whom the North Texas man had intended to harm. A series of handwritten notes allegedly found in Jahn’s home revealed that he believed ICE agents are “people showing up to collect a dirty paycheck.”
Garcia reportedly had lived in the U.S. for 20 years, most recently working as a painter, according to his family. In the Univsion interview, his brother had difficulty grasping his family’s new reality.
“It’s just been a rollercoaster of emotions,” Gauffeny said. “I feel like it’s a dream… like I’m going to wake up and it’s just a nightmare.”
