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Jesus Ivan Sepulveda
Gender : Male
Age : 22
Race : Latino/a/e
Date : 09/27/2022
Location : Fivemile Tank
City : Sierra Blanca
County : Hudspeth
State : Texas
Agency : West Texas Detention Facility at Sierra Blanca
Officer(s) :Not Disclosed
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Killed by prison warden hunting migrants in his spare time
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
Jesus Ivan Sepulveda was a new father crossing the Tex-Mex border to look for work. A warden of the West Texas Detention facilityat Sierra Blanca and his twin brother drove up, cursed at them in Spanish and fired into the group of 13 migrants, hitting Sepulveda in the head and a woman in the abdomen. Mike and Mark Sheppard hunted migrants in their spare time. Mike’s job was that of LaSalle-run prison warden of the jail full-time.
SOURCE LINKS :
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/05/texas-migrant-shooting-warden-sierra-blanca/
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/19/texas-migrant-shooting-warden-sierra-blanca/
