Two Migrants Shot And Killed In Texas, Two Arrested Including Jail Warden
Migrants.
Sept. 30 2022, Published 11:44 a.m. ET
Two Texas men who are accused of shooting migrants were arrested, Radar has learned.
Mike Sheppard and Mark Sheppard were booked into the El Paso County jail on charges of manslaughter after one migrant was fatally shot and another was wounded on Sept. 27.
“We don’t have a lot of information but what we know is very concerning. This is something that somehow we were expecting because of the circumstances happening in Texas," Fernando Garcia, with the Border Network for Human Rights, said.
One of the suspects is reportedly a warden at a jail in the area. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the men pulled a truck over to the side of the road and shot at a group of migrants getting a drink of water.
“This was murder and attempted murder of people trying to get clean water just because of the color of their skin. This traumatizes us all in Texas,” Mary Gonzalez, a state representative for the Mexican American legislative caucus, said in a prepared statement.
A male migrant was killed, and a woman was taken to Del Sol Medical Center in El Paso. A Sierra Blanca resident said he sees immigrants in the area often.
“I see a lot of immigrants crossing over the mountain they come on our property middle of the night I’ve had incidents at 4 o’clock in the morning have them show up my dogs go crazy," the unidentified man told KTSM.
The place where the migrants were shot is approximately 4 miles south of Sierra Blanca, not far from the Mexico border.
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“I don’t think people realize the amount of migrants that come out here you’ve got coyotes that are out here that pick up illegals," the Sierra Blanca resident said.
