Immigration and Customs Enforcement identified Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, as the victim who was killed in the Dallas ICE facility shooting on Wednesday.
Guzman-Fuentes, 37, was apprehended by Dallas ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers on the day of the attack at the ICE facility.
“Upon arrival to the ERO Dallas Field Office, ICE officers encountered an active shooter at the facility, targeting immigration officials. Regretfully, Guzman was one the victims of this tragic incident which resulted in his death,” ICE said in a Monday press release.
Joshua Jahn, the suspected sniper in the attack who is dead, was aiming to “give ICE agents real terror,” FBI Director Kash Patel said. Jahn killed Guzman-Fuentes and injured two other illegal immigrants.
Guzman-Fuentes was first arrested in the United States in Palm Springs, Florida, in 2012 under charges of battery, improper exhibit of a firearm or dangerous weapon, and criminal mischief, according to ICE. Law enforcement dropped the charges except for criminal mischief. He was arrested again in 2020 in Arlington, Texas, and charged with a DUI, but bonded out of Arlington Police Department custody.
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On Aug. 25, Dallas Police Department officers arrested Guzman-Fuentes and charged him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and an outstanding warrant for driving while intoxicated, according to ICE. Guzman-Fuentes’s aggravated assault charge was dropped on Sept. 10. It was after his August arrest that ICE agents lodged an immigration detainer and subsequently apprehended him.
The two other injured victims of the shooting were Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez of Mexico and Jose Andres Bordones-Molina of Venezuela, a Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News.
