A second detainee has died following a sniper attack on a Dallas ICE facility.
Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a 32-year-old Mexican national, died from injuries sustained in the Dallas ICE ambush, the League of United Latin American Citizens announced September 29.
As The Dallas Express previously reported, a sniper, identified as Joshua Jahn, targeted the facility on September 24, hoping to kill ICE officers – but instead, he wounded and killed immigrant detainees.
“My husband Miguel was a good man, a loving father, and the provider for our family,” said his wife, Stephany Gauffeny, according to LULAC. “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.”
García-Hernández was removed from life support after the sniper seriously injured him, according to LULAC. His family had reportedly moved into their first home.
The Department of Homeland Security told Fox 4 the detainee had a criminal history of providing false information, evading arrest, driving while intoxicated, and fleeing police.
The same day as this announcement, ICE identified the detainee who initially died in the attack – 37-year-old Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, an illegal alien from El Salvador. The agency called his fatal gunshot wound “senseless and tragic.”
Officials did not know when he illegally entered the country, but Guzman-Fuentes had a criminal history dating back to 2012 in Palm Beach County, Florida, where he was arrested on charges of battery, improper display of firearms, and criminal mischief, according to a release from ICE. The first two charges were dropped.
The Arlington Police Department also reportedly arrested Guzman-Fuentes in 2020 and charged him with driving while intoxicated. He bonded out of custody before ICE could place him on hold.
Then on August 25, the Dallas Police Department arrested Guzman-Fuentes, and charged him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon – later dismissed – and a warrant for DWI. That day, ICE placed him on an immigration hold.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations took custody of Guzman-Fuentes on September 24. When they arrived at the Dallas ICE field office, the sniper opened fire.
“Regretfully, Guzman was one the victims of this tragic incident which resulted in his death,” reads the ICE press release.
The shooter, Jahn, ultimately killed himself, as The Dallas Express reported. He wrote “ANTI-ICE” on bullets found nearby.
Jahn wanted to “maximize lethality” against ICE personnel, but “minimize collateral damage to detainees or others,” said U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy Larson at the time.
“He also hoped his actions would give ICE agents a real terror of being gunned down, and he did this to induce constant stress in their lives,” Larson said. “He hoped his actions would terrorize ICE employees and interfere with their work, which he called ‘human trafficking.’”
This is just the latest attack on immigration enforcement in Texas.
A group of Antifa-linked militants ambushed the ICE Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado on July 4, as The Dallas Express reported. One suspect shot a police officer in the neck. One of the suspects bonded out and was rearrested for hindering the prosecution of terrorism just days before the recent Dallas ICE attack.
Soon after the Alvarado assault, a gunman opened fire on Customs and Border Protection in McAllen, as The Dallas Express reported at the time, wounding one agent and two officers.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo on September 29 on “Ending Political Violence Against ICE.” Federal officers with the agency have seen a 1,000% increase in attacks since January 21, 2025.
Bondi directed DOJ officers and agents to defend ICE facilities in Portland and Chicago, add local police to a temporary ICE Protection Task Force, and provide funding, training, and technical help to assist those protecting ICE.
“Enough is enough,” she wrote in the memo. “The Department of Justice will stand strong when federal law enforcement officers are attacked or threatened for doing their sworn duty on behalf of the United States government.”