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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Uriel J. García

Lawsuit settled in 2022 shooting death of a migrant in West Texas, but no criminal charges filed yet

Michael Sheppard Mark Sheppard Lawsuit Texas West Texas The Texas Tribune Police El Paso Ivan Pierre Aguirre James Montoya
Luz Maria Martinez and Napoleon Sepulveda cry over their son, Jesus Ivan Sepulveda, who was shot and killed by a prison warden (at the time) last week near Sierra Blanca, Texas, Wednesday, October 5, 2022, in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Sepulveda was shot while the group of migrants he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with stopped for water near Sierra Blanca, Texas. Photo by Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Texas Tribune
Luz Maria Martinez and Napoleon Sepúlveda show photo a of their son, Jesus Ivan Sepulveda Martinez, on Oct. 5, 2022, in Ciudad Juárez. Sepulveda Martinez was a Mexican migrant who was shot to death in September 2022 in Hudspeth County. Another migrant, Brenda Berenice Casias Carrillo, was injured in the shooting. (Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre for the Texas Tribune)

EL PASO — Prosecutors have not filed charges against the former warden of a West Texas migrant detention facility who police say fatally shot a Mexican man nearly three years ago and injured a woman with him.

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