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.
A lawsuit on behalf of the victims against Michael Sheppard’s now-former employer, La Salle Corrections, was recently settled. The case was scheduled to go to trial in an El Paso federal court on Tuesday. The terms of the settlement were not publicly released.
On the night of Sept. 27, 2022, police say Sheppard, then 60 and the warden of the West Texas Detention Center, shot twice at a group of 13 migrants hiding behind brush in Sierra Blanca, about 100 miles east of El Paso, killing 22-year-old Jesús Iván Sepúlveda Martínez and injuring Brenda Berenice Casias Carrillo, 31 at the time…