'I want his name to be known:' Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out

"He's on life support after being critically injured on Wednesday in the shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas. He was being detained there after being arrested on Aug. 8 for driving under the influence. He is in the U.S. without legal status. "It hurts to think like, what if he never even gets to meet him," Gauffeny told NPR on Saturday, referring to her unborn child, a son. That is very possible."

"One of the things that shocked her the most when she saw Garcia-Hernandez in the hospital was how he looked. "When I first arrived at the hospital, he was shackled, even though he couldn't move," Gauffeny said. He's still unconscious, but because he remains in ICE custody, agents are controlling access to his room. All of this is making it harder for her to visit her husband, and for his brothers to see him, too."

"In addition to Garcia-Hernandez, Venezuelan detainee Jose Andres Bordones-Molina was also injured in the shooting. A third was killed, and the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office identified him as 37-year-old Norlan Guzman Fuentes, from El Salvador. In a statement to NPR, ICE confirmed the identities of all three victims on Saturday. The agency said that all three were "criminal illegal aliens." The shooter was identified by ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons as Joshua Jahn, a 29-year-old who died of self-inflicted wounds."

Stephany Gauffeny is pregnant and anxiously awaiting the birth of her fifth child while her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, remains on life support after a shooting at a Dallas ICE facility. Garcia-Hernandez was detained after an Aug. 8 DUI arrest and is in the U.S. without legal status. Medical staff warned that he might not survive the night and machines are keeping him alive. He was shackled in the hospital despite being unconscious, and ICE agents control access to his room, limiting family visits. Two other detainees were wounded and one, Norlan Guzman Fuentes, was killed. ICE confirmed the victims' identities and characterized them as "criminal illegal aliens." The shooter, Joshua Jahn, died of self-inflicted wounds.

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