A Mexican native of Durango was murdered for seeking the American dream and no one will be in prison for it.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 26, a group of immigrants who had crossed the border from Mexico with the purpose of working in the United States were caught shooting near Sierra Blanca. on Interstate 10, about 25 miles from the Mexican border.
In the incident, an undocumented immigrant lost his life due to the shots he received, while a woman was wounded in the stomach. and had to be transferred to a hospital in El Paso, Texas.
Because of that, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office resorted to reviewing the cameras near the scene of the incident and it was discovered that the brothers Mike and Mark Sheppard had been the alleged perpetrators of having murdered who was later found out to be Jesús Iván Sepúlveda Martínez, 22 years old and originally from Durango.
“The group took cover to avoid detection. The vehicle then backed up and the driver got out of the vehicle. The driver leaned on the hood of the vehicle and fired two shots from a firearm at the group. The driver then re-entered the vehicle and fled the scene,” a park ranger said. of Texas in an affidavit to which the CNN television network had access.
However, the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Department disclosed that the judge who analyzed the case of the Sheppard brothers, 60, decided to release them in exchange for a $250,000 bail that everyone had to pay.
Mark Sheppard said he and his brother had driven to the reservoir “looking for ducks, then changed it to birds and then Javelina.” Later, according to their affidavit, the two men attended a local water board meeting and “heard on the radio” that a migrant had been found in a local dump with a gunshot wound.
One noteworthy fact is that at the time Michael Sheppard served as director of the West Texas Detention Center in Sierra Blanca.
Before learning of the court ruling, Verónica Escobar, a federal congresswoman representing El Paso, declared that she hoped that the United States Department of Justice would “investigate the murder of the immigrant as a hate crime,” which simply happened. unnoticed by the judge.