A second person who was shot recently at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Dallas, Texas, has died, according to the League of United Latin American Citizens (Lulac), which is representing his family.
Lulac announced in a news release on Tuesday that Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, 32, had “succumbed to his injuries after being removed from life support following the [24 September] sniper attack on the Dallas Ice facility”.
His wife, Stephany Gauffeny, said in a statement that her husband was “a good man, a loving father and the provider for our family”.
“We had just bought our first home together, and he worked hard every single day to make sure our children had what they needed,” she added. “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 organization said that García-Hernández, who is from Mexico, leaves behind four young children and his wife, who is expecting their fifth child. The statement added that the family had just recently moved into their first home.
Gauffeny told NPR over the weekend that her husband worked as a house painter before he was detained.
García-Hernández was one of three people shot at the Ice facility. The shooting initially left one detainee dead and two others critically wounded.
On Monday, Ice officials identified the other slain victim as 37-year-old Norlan Guzman-Fuentes of El Salvador, who died the on day of the shooting.
A statement from Ice said that Guzman-Fuentes, while in custody, “suffered a senseless and tragic fatal gunshot wound during a senseless sniper assault” on the agency’s field office in Dallas.
The third victim, identified in reports as Jose Andres Bordones-Molina, has reportedly been released from the hospital, according to CBS news, citing a Department of Homeland Security official.
The gunman, identified by authorities as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, was found dead at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No law enforcement officers were injured in the attack.
Authorities have described the shooting as a “targeted attack” on Ice and said that they believe that the suspect acted alone. Texas officials have said that they believe the shooting came after a “high degree of planning” – and noted that an “anti-Ice” shell casing was recovered at the scene.
They also said that investigators found handwritten notes at the suspect’s residence outlining a “game plan” for the attack and to “target areas at the facility” – and that the suspect “called the Ice employees ‘people showing up to collect a dirty paycheck’”.
Authorities have said that the FBI is investigating the shooting as an act of targeted violence.
CBS also reported that the Dallas Ice field office is expected to reopen on Tuesday with increased security.
