HOUSTON (CW39) — A report says that the target of a Houston pursuit by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that left a construction worker hospitalized with serious injuries has been dead for years.
The New York Times reported Thursday that the man pictured in a Department of Homeland Security wanted bulletin as Jose Mendoza-Cervantes may have actually died nine years ago.
ICE previously said agents were pursuing Mendoza-Cervantes during Saturday’s operation when Miguel Parra Hernandez fled and was struck by an SUV driven by ICE agents.
But Jamie Jimenez of Dallas told the times the man pictured in that federal bulletin is her father, Jose Hector Jimenez Mendoza, who died in Laredo in 2017.
She provided the Times with a Mexican death certificate and said her father had previously used the Mendoza-Cervantes name as an alias…