The lone survivor of last week's shooting at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas is at an immigration detention center south of Fort Worth after being released from the hospital, ICE records show.
Jose Andres Bordones Molina of Venezuela, 33, was one of three detainees shot at the Dallas ICE office in the early hours of Sept. 24. He's now detained at Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, 28 miles south of Fort Worth, "pending disposition of his immigration proceedings," an ICE spokesperson told KERA News in an email.
The spokesperson said Bordones Molina came to the U.S. last August. He was taken into ICE custody the day of the shooting after his release from the Hurst City Jail, where he was being held for an unspecified traffic offense.
One man, 37-year-old Norlan Guzman Fuentes of El Salvador, died at the scene. Bordones Molina and Mexican citizen Miguel Ángel García-Hernández were taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where García-Hernández later died.
ICE has not yet confirmed to KERA News Bordones Molina's health status or when he was released from the hospital.
"The terrible losses and injuries that resulted from this attack are directly caused by the senseless and misleading political rhetoric that is being thrown around by politicians and activists," the spokesperson wrote. "This violence must stop."
Bordones Molina's father told Telemundo their family only found out Bordones Molina had been shot through social media. His father said the lack of Venezuelan consulates in the U.S. has made getting information a challenge, and authorities haven't told him anything.
Contacts in Dallas told Bordones Molina's father his son was hit in the head and grazed in the arm, the station reported. Bordones Molina has lived in the U.S. for a little over a year and has a wife and two kids in Venezuela.
This story has been updated with a statement from ICE. Additional reporting by KERA's Priscilla Rice.
Toluwani Osibamowo is KERA’s law and justice reporter. Got a tip? Email Toluwani at tosibamowo@kera.org.
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