Family ‘with a broken heart’ mourns man killed in Dallas ICE office shooting
A 37-year-old man who was killed at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas on Sept. 24 had come to the United States in search of a better future and built his life with strength, his family said.
Norlan Guzman-Fuentes died at the scene of the shooting when a North Texas man armed with a rifle opened fire at the ICE Field Office building from a nearby rooftop, authorities said.
Guzman-Fuentes was originally from El Salvador and worked for a tree service in North Texas.
“He was caught in the crossfire of an attack he had nothing to do with,” Yorlen Villatoro, Fuente’s relative and the organizer of a GoFundMe, wrote. “He died far from home, without the comfort of his loved ones. No one should leave this world that way.”
“He worked the land with dignity — not out of luxury, but out of resilience; to stand tall even when the world tried to bring him down,” Villatoro wrote. “Norlan wasn’t just part of our family — he was at the heart of everyone who knew him: a deeply loved son, brother, uncle, nephew, and friend. He had a special charisma. He was — and still is — loved by everyone who was part of his life.”
The family wants to bring Guzman-Fuentes back to El Salvador to say goodbye with dignity and peace, according to the GoFundMe organized to cover funeral expenses in El Salvador and to support his mother.
Guzman-Fuentes’ mother, María Apolonia Fuentes, who depended on her son financially, now “mourns him with a broken heart,” the family wrote in the GoFundMe post.
“We’re not just asking for money — we’re asking for compassion. For a man who died far too young, and for a family that is now trying to rebuild from this pain,” Villatoro wrote.
A second victim of the shooting, Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, 32, died at the hospital. García-Hernández, who was originally from Mexico and lived in Arlington, was shot multiple times and had been on life support since the shooting.
Feds say shooter intended to kill agents
The shooter, Joshua Jahn, 29, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities have said. Jahn used a ladder to climb to the roof of a three-story office building near the ICE facility.
Jahn wasn’t a member of a political group, is believed to have acted without accomplices and expected to die during the ambush, according to evidence authorities recovered from his house and electronic devices.
Investigators have said that Jahn intended to kill special agents and stir fear among their colleagues. In what the region’s chief federal law enforcement official said was a “tragic irony,” Jahn ended up shooting three detainees.
No officers were injured in the shooting, but they ran toward the gunfire to try to help restrained detainees who were unable to get out of the van in which the victims were shot, officials said. There were other immigrants in the van besides the three who were shot, and officers brought them to safety, authorities said.
This story was originally published September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM.