The partner of Norlan Guzman Fuentes, one of the two people killed in a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, Texas, claims no one from the U.S. government reached out to notify her of his death.
“It’s like nothing has happened,” Berenice Prieto, Fuentes’s partner, told CBS News Texas on Tuesday. Prieto said that she learned of the news after contacting the El Salvadoran consulate herself two days after the attack, when Fuentes, 37, was fatally shot.
Fuentes and Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, 32, both died from wounds sustained during a shooting at a Dallas ICE location last Wednesday, while a third person, Jose Andres Bordones-Molina, was critically wounded.
Prieto said that she learned Fuentes had died in handcuffs and was disappointed with the way that authorities had treated his death. They made it seem like his life was “worthless,” like it had “no value,” she said.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson contended that authorities didn’t have Prieto listed as a member of Fuentes’s immediate family, and put the onus on her to contact the agency.
