‘Don’t be afraid’: Vigil held in Fort Worth for victims of ICE facility shooting
Candles flickered against the sunset at Marine Park on Friday as local activists gathered for a vigil for the three victims of Wednesday’s shooting at a Dallas ICE facility.
A Mexican flag pinned to a nearby tree flapped in the breeze alongside a sign that read, “Say their names.”
Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, a 37-year-old man originally from El Salvador, died at the scene, according to Dallas County Medical Examiner records.
Family members and authorities have identified José Andrés Bordones-Molina, a 33-year-old Venezuelan national; and Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a 32-year-old Mexican national who lives in Arlington, as the other detainees who were shot. They were critically injured when a sniper armed with a rifle opened fire at the ICE Field Office building from a nearby rooftop. The three men were inside a transport van.
The vigil was the second one held in Dallas-Fort Worth by the North Texas Brown Berets, an immigrant advocacy group, in the days after the shooting. Activists gathered outside Dallas’ Parkland Hospital on Thursday.
On one table at Friday’s vigil, candles and flowers sat atop a bed of Brown Beret flyers bearing the instructions for how to report sightings of ICE agents in the community.
“All the narrative that’s being pushed is that it’s agents that are being affected and ICE agents that are being targeted,” said Daniel Matallana, a member of the Brown Berets. “Our people constantly get targeted, they constantly live in fear of even going outside and this is furthering that attack.”
As much as the vigil was in support of the shooting victims, Matallana said, it was also to show the community that immigrants are not afraid.
“Don’t be afraid,” Matallana said when asked what he’d like the world to know. “The powers that be are just keeping us down and trying to have us afraid and listening to their lies. The only thing we can do is stand up and stand with each other.”
This story was originally published September 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM.
