Witnesses from the group told federal agents that just before hearing the gunshots, they heard one of the two men in the vehicle yell derogatory terms to them and rev the engine, according to court documents.
Authorities located the truck by checking cameras and finding a vehicle matching the description given by the migrants, according to court records.
Scott Sutterfield, a spokesman for facility operator Lasalle Corrections, responded to an AP email asking whether Sheppard had been fired as warden. Sutterfield said the warden had been fired"due to an off-duty incident unrelated to his employment." Sutterfield declined further comment, citing the"ongoing criminal investigation.
"The dehumanizing, the demeaning of people who seek refuge in this country, many of whom are people of color, is what contributed to the violence we see here," Doggett said. The attorneys submitted a civil rights complaint over the allegations that year but according to response letter sent to the lawyers in 2021, the Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties conducted an onsite investigation, made multiple recommendations to ICE, but did not find evidence of"any excessive use of force incidents" or"incidents of wrongful segregation" and found some uses of force to have been appropriate.
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