Michael Sheppard, one of the suspects in last week's shooting in West Texas, was the warden of an immigration detention center that was the subject of several human rights abuse complaints in 2018.
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“Did you get him?” asked his twin brother, Mark Sheppard, who was also in the truck, according to the affidavit. Mark Sheppard changed “him” to “it” while talking to the officer and claimed the brothers were hunting animals and didn’t know they had fired at people, the affidavit says.Both were being held in the El Paso County jail on suspicion of manslaughter on Friday. It’s unclear whether the Sheppards have an attorney.
included the migrants’ complaints in a report that didn’t mention Michael Sheppard by name, but he was the warden at the time. , D-El Paso, demanded that the federal government investigate the shooting for potential civil rights violations. On Saturday, four other Democratic members of Congress from Texas called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the shooting.
Mark Sheppard initially told the officers that he wasn’t with his brother at the time of the shooting but “later changed his story and admitted” he was with Michael Sheppard, the report says. Mark Sheppard also told officers they had stopped near the reservoir looking to shoot “ducks, then changed it to birds and then to a javelina,” the report says.
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