10 Charged With Attempted Murder After Shooting of Police Officer at Texas ICE Facility

‘This was an ambush on federal and local law enforcement officers,’ Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy E. Larson said.
10 Charged With Attempted Murder After Shooting of Police Officer at Texas ICE Facility
The Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on Sept. 15, 2016. Louis DeLuca/The Dallas Morning News via AP
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Ten people have been charged with the attempted murder of a police officer at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Texas over the Fourth of July holiday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas said on July 8.

The incident took place outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, which is being used to hold people detained for immigration violations or awaiting deportation hearings.

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