Report: Suspect in Houston ICE operation died years ago

All right, more news coming your way. We have continued coverage of the incident we first started following on Saturday. That is the video that has now gone viral, where you see an ICE vehicle unmarked run over an undocumented migrant here in Houston. That man was significantly injured, broke his leg in three different places, also had injuries to his hip. But there's been so many more developments in this case today alone. Let's go to our McKenna Earnhardt now, who's giving us details where we learned that it is now being reported that the driver, the ICE agent who drove that vehicle is now on leave. Local advocacy groups like Fiel Houston are calling this a major step forward. Though we do want to note that Fox 26 is still waiting to independently confirm this status change. We've reached out to both local and federal agencies. The news that we got today was that the officer that hit Mr. Miguel Parra is now on administrative leave and that's a good first step in the right direction but you know we believe that this ice officer should have never been out there the the lack of responsibility the lack of training the lack of empathy that these officers showed leading up to this pursuit and then afterwards is mind boggling to recap how we got here back on saturday near clay road and highway six the harris county Sheriff's Office says ICE agents pursued a white truck carrying two men. The truck went the wrong way down Clay Road before pulling over. Both men ran. One escaped, but the second, identified as Miguel Parra Hernandez, was hit by an ICE vehicle, suffering a broken leg that required surgery. Now, major questions are emerging about the man ICE claimed to be targeting, Jose Mendoza Cervantes. According to reporting from the New York Times, a woman claiming to be the daughter of the man ICE says it was trying to detain has actually been dead for nine years. Fox 26 also received a phone call from a woman claiming that exact same detail, though we were unable to reach her back for further clarification. Parr's attorneys maintained her client do not know Cervantes and insist the wanted target was never in that truck. The daughter called Fiel and expressed her concerns with ICE using her father's photo and exploiting her father's photo as somebody who they were after when the entire time immigration knew that he had already been deceased. So it couldn't have been the intended target at any We've reached out to the Department of Homeland Security regarding these allegations as well as the agent's status. We'll bring you those updates as soon as we get them. For Fox26, I'm McKenna Earnhardt.