Second detainee dies a week after Dallas ICE shooting
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A sniper shot three detainees at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas on Sept 24.
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- Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, 32, died from injuries sustained in a Dallas ICE office sniper attack, bringing the death toll to two.
- The shooter, Joshua Jahn, 29, who died by suicide, acted alone, aiming to "terrorise" ICE agents he accused of "human trafficking".
- The shooting follows political violence, including the death of Charlie Kirk, raising fears of escalating political tensions in the US.
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DALLAS, Texas – A second detainee who had been wounded by a sniper in a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas last week has died of his injuries, an ICE official said on Sept 30.
The man who died was identified as Mr Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, 32, whom media accounts say was a house painter who came to the US as a child.
Another detainee was killed at the scene of the Sept 24 sniper attack.
A third victim remains in hospital, according to media accounts that the ICE official declined to confirm.
The shooting took place two weeks after Mr Charlie Kirk, co-founder of the conservative student political group Turning Point USA and a close ally of US President Donald Trump, was shot and killed by a rooftop sniper
A GoFundMe page set up for Mr Garcia-Hernandez’s family said he was the sole provider for his wife and children. His wife was expecting a baby “due to be delivered any day now”.
ICE has not identified the other victims of the shooting. Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said last week that one of the two detainees who was seriously injured was a Mexican citizen, but that individual was not identified by name.
No government personnel were injured in the shooting, which took place at around 6.40am outside an ICE office where people detained as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration were processed.
The sniper fired “indiscriminately”, according to officials, on an area where detainees were being escorted from vehicles into the building.
The shooter, identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to officials.
The shooter left behind notes saying he acted alone in an attack intended to kill and “terrorise” ICE agents, whose work he viewed as “human trafficking”, officials said last week.
Ms Nancy Larson, acting US attorney for the Northern District of Texas, said at a news conference last week that it seemed clear from the gunman’s writings “he did not intend to kill detainees or harm them”. REUTERS
