'Don't be afraid:' Vigil held in Fort Worth for victims of shooting at ICE facility

Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Sep 28, 2025

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Candles flickered against the sunset at Marine Park on Friday as local activists gathered for a vigil for the three surviving victims of Wednesday’s shooting at a Dallas ICE facility.

A Mexican flag pinned to a nearby tree flapped in the breeze alongside a sign that read, “Say their names.”

The vigil was the second one held in Dallas-Fort Worth this week by the North Texas Brown Berets, an immigrant advocacy group. Activists gathered outside Dallas’ Parkland Hospital on Thursday.

On one table at Friday’s vigil, candles and flowers sat atop a bed of Brown Beret flyers bearing the instructions for how to report sightings of ICE agents in the community.

“All the narrative that’s being pushed is that it’s agents that are being affected and ICE agents that are being targeted,” said Daniel Matallana, a member of the Brown Berets. “Our people constantly get targeted, they constantly live in fear of even going outside and this is furthering that attack.”

As much as the vigil was in support of the wounded, Matallana said, it was also to show the community that immigrants are not afraid.

“Don’t be afraid,” Matallana said when asked what he’d like the world to know. “The powers that be are just keeping us down and trying to have us afraid and listening to their lies. The only thing we can do is stand up and stand with each other.”