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<\/p>\nCandles in the shape of a heart were placed outside Dallas City Hall Friday night as dozens of community members gathered to mourn the loss of two migrants killed in last month\u2019s shooting outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.<\/p>\n
Norlan Guzman Fuentes from El Salvador died in the attack early Sept. 24; Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez from Mexico died almost a week later from his injuries.<\/p>\n
“<\/b>We have to fight for a future for a world where these things don’t happen. A future where immigrants can live safely and can live in peace,” said Judith, a community organizer with Venceremos DFW, who only identified herself by her first name.<\/p>\n
A third victim, Jose Andres Bordones-Molina of Venezuela, was recently released from Parkland Hospital and is in ICE custody at the Prairieland Detention Center. Large signs with Guzman Fuentes\u2019 and Garcia Hernandez\u2019 names served as a backdrop to the event.<\/p>\n
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People listen to a speaker at a vigil for the victims of the shooting at the ICE facility Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, in front of Dallas City Hall. <\/p>\n
During the vigil, people placed bouquets of flowers and hand-painted umbrellas that read \u201ckeep families together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several community groups and activists partnered for the vigil, including Noemi Rios, a community organizer and founder of Vecinos Unidos DFW. The vigil was to acknowledge the victims, who she said weren\u2019t treated humanely after their injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are here to name that but as well as to acknowledge that this isn’t isolated,\u201d she said. \u201cThe brutality that ICE is bringing to Dallas is the same as the brutality we are seeing across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Noemi Rios, Vecinos Unidos DFW, speaks to a crowd at a vigil for the victims of the shooting at the ICE facility Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, in front of Dallas City Hall. <\/p>\n
Activists read a statement from Guzman Fuentes\u2019 sister, who lives in North Carolina. She wanted people to know that he had a family — \u201deight siblings and a mother who loved him dearly.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the statement, she said she hasn\u2019t been able to see her brother\u2019s body and properly grieve.<\/p>\n
“She wants people to know she was told she didn’t need to identify her brother because they took his fingerprints,\u201d the statement read. \u201cShe’s asking for justice for her brother and all those whose families have been victims of this violence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Federal authorities say the suspected shooter, Joshua Jahn of Fairview, was targeting law enforcement when he opened fire on the ICE office from the roof of a nearby building, striking the three detainees.<\/p>\n
Garcia-Hernandez was taken into ICE custody since Aug. 8. He had lived in the U.S. since he was a teen, his wife, Stephany Gauffeny, told NPR.<\/p>\n
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Eric Cedillo, attorney to the victim\u2019s family, speaks at a vigil for the victims of the shooting at the ICE facility Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, in front of Dallas City Hall. <\/p>\n
Eric Cedillo, a immigration attorney and civil rights advocate who represents Gauffeny, told the audience that she wanted to be there, but had given birth earlier in the day to a son named Miles Alexander Garcia.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u00a0 A little boy unfortunately who will never know his father, because Miguel’s life was taken,\u00a0 f\u00a0 or absolutely no good reason,\u201d Cedillo said.<\/p>\n
Cedillo said there was a story about Miguel Angel that wasn\u2019t being told. On the day of the shooting, Miguel Angel was sitting on the bus at the ICE field office, talking to an 18-year-old man about his wife and kids, when bullets crashed through the window.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe turned to the boy and said, \u2018I don’t think I’m going to make it. Get underneath me. Let me shield you,\u2019\u201d Cedillo said. \u201cThat’s the story that needs to get out. The heroism that was Miguel Garcia.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, immigration lawyer, speaks at a vigil for the victims of the shooting at the ICE facility Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, in front of Dallas City Hall. <\/p>\n
Kate Lincoln-Golfinch, an immigration attorney and legal adviser for the League of United Latin American Citizens saidit\u2019s important to counter the narrative about migrants without legal status and appreciate and respect them instead.<\/p>\n
“It takes a whole lot for somebody to pick up their whole life and come to a brand new culture just because they want something better for themselves and their children,\u201d she said. \u201cThat is something that I have a lot of admiration for and I know a lot us do. And that’s the message that we need to be talking about more than what we’re hearing on the other side.”<\/p>\n
Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than “just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal.”<\/p>\n
The main message, Cedillo and others told mourners: remember the names of Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez and Norlan Guzman Fuentes.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone here, remember those names, remember those people, remember those families that we’ve lost,\u201d Cedillo said, \u201cbecause unfortunately, over the next few months, there’s going to be so many others that we’re never going to hear about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Priscilla Rice is KERA\u2019s communities reporter. Got a tip? Email her at\u00a0price@kera.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n