Miguel Ángel García Medina is one of two people wounded in the shooting and was facing deportation to Mexico when the ICE office came under attack.
By Imelda García
Dallas Morning News
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A Mexican citizen remained in grave condition after being shot at least four times in an attack earlier this week on a Dallas ICE office, his brother told a Spanish-language television network.
Miguel Ángel García Medina was shot in his flank, back, stomach and neck, his brother told KUVN, Univision 23.
“His wife tells me — because I don’t talk with the doctors — that he is in very bad shape and they want to disconnect him, because he is only living on machines; the machines are what is keeping him alive,” Fernando Gutiérrez told KUVN.
García Medina, a house painter living in Arlington who has been in the United States for two decades, remains hospitalized and in very serious condition after undergoing at least two surgeries, his brother said.
On Wednesday, Joshua Jahn, a 29-year-old unemployed Collin County man, shot at the ICE offices at 8101 N Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, killing one person and injuring two others. The attacker died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Department of Homeland Security officials on Saturday identified the three victims who were shot: Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, from El Salvador, was killed when a gunman fired on the office building at around 6:30 a.m., according to an official with the Department of Homeland Security. Jose Andres Bordones-Molina, from Venezuela, and Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, from Mexico, were also shot.
Gutiérrez said his brother was in custody, although he did not know the reason, and that García Medina was at the ICE processing center that morning to face deportation.
According to his brother, García Medina is originally from San Luis Potosí, located about 250 miles north of Mexico City.
Gutiérrez said their mother was deported two months ago and now the family is talking to a lawyer to try to get her to come see her son.
Imelda García is a journalist covering Hispanic food and Latino culture trends. She previously worked as a reporter for Al Día, the Spanish-language publication of The DMN. Before working at The DMN, she developed most of her career in national outlets in México.
This story, originally published in The Dallas Morning News, is reprinted as part of a collaborative partnership between The Dallas Morning News and Texas Metro News. The partnership seeks to boost coverage of Dallas’ communities of color, particularly in southern Dallas.
