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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recently issued a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer, urging Texas officials to retain custody of an undocumented immigrant accused of a gruesome murder in Dallas. The individual in question is suspected of fatally attacking his wife with a pocketknife.
Authorities have identified the suspect as 24-year-old Francisco Mendez-Marin, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. He was apprehended by the Carrolton Police Department on March 18 and is currently facing charges of felony homicide. The charges stem from an alleged domestic altercation that resulted in the death of his 20-year-old wife, Karla Rangel.
According to reports from FOX 4 Dallas, the couple had been married for less than a month before this tragic incident unfolded. [Source]
Upon arriving at the crime scene, law enforcement officers discovered Mendez-Marin with bloodstained clothing and a pocketknife covered in blood, according to officials.
Francisco Mendez-Marin is currently facing accusations of having committed a brutal act of violence against his wife in Dallas, Texas. (DHS)
Body camera footage shows Mendez-Marin telling officers, “I didn’t do anything bad” and “I was obligated to do it” in Spanish, according to the arrest affidavit.
“This depraved animal murdered his own wife just one month after they were married by brutally slitting her throat with a pocketknife,” DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis wrote in a statement. “This illegal alien should have never been allowed into our country to commit this heinous murder.”
ICE lodged an immigration detainer following the arrest. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“ICE requested authorities in Dallas to not release this cold-blooded killer onto the streets,” she continued. “Thankfully, Dallas politicians cooperate with ICE, so together we can ensure this murderer is NEVER loose in American communities.”
Officials said the killing took place in Dallas, Texas, after a domestic dispute. (iStock)
Mendez-Marin is currently in Dallas County Sheriff’s Office custody and being held in the Dallas County Jail, according to DHS.