A suspect in custody following a shooting at a Texas fast-food restaurant that left two people dead is in the United States illegally, authorities say.
Police said 37-year-old Oved Bernardo Mendoza Argueta, a Salvadoran national, has been charged with multiple murder counts in the shooting that happened Wednesday at the Chick-fil-A in the 5300 block of North MacArthur Boulevard in Irving.
“We can confirm that a suspect was taken into custody earlier this morning,” an Irving Police Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Thursday morning, adding that Mendoza Argueta is “in the custody of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)” and that the warrant was issued by the Dallas-Fort Worth Immigration and Naturalization Service.
An ICE spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital that the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Bureau in Dallas “filed an immigration detention order at the Irving Police Department on Mendoza Street. These detention orders are for foreign nationals who have been accused of a crime and arrested by police.”
The shooting happened around 3:40 p.m., and one of the victims has been identified as Patricia Portillo, according to the arrest warrant. Mendoza Argueta is the spouse of a Chick-fil-A employee who was a witness and “positively identified the defendant,” according to the warrant.
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The suspect in the June 26 shooting in Texas has been identified as Oved Bernardo Mendoza Argueta, 37. (Irving Police Department)
Police said the second victim’s name was redacted from the documents because next of kin needed to be notified.
During the search, police released photos of Mendoza Argueta and the 1997 Honda four-door car he was last seen driving.
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Booking photo of Oved Bernardo Mendoza Argueta. (Irving Police Department)
Officials said they believe the shooting was a “targeted incident and not a random act of violence.”
Television footage showed screens set up in front of some of the Chick-fil-A restaurant’s windows and several police cars parked in the blocked off parking lot.
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Chick-fil-A did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Fox News reporter Andrea Vacchiano and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
