Police in Texas say the man they were looking for following a deadly shooting that killed two people inside a fast-food restaurant is in custody and that he has an “ICE hold.”
Oved Bernardo Mendoza Argueta, 37, was sought Wednesday evening after a shooting occurred at a Chick-fil-A in the 5300 block of North MacArthur Boulevard in Irving, police announced on Facebook.
“We can confirm that the suspect was taken into custody early this morning,” a spokesperson for Irving Police Department told Fox News Digital on Thursday morning, adding later that Mendoza Argueta has an “ICE hold,” with the warrant agency being Immigration and Naturalization Service Dallas/Fort Worth.
The shooting happened around 3:40 p.m., according to an arrest warrant that identified one of the victims as Patricia Portillo. The document states Mendoza Argueta is the spouse of a Chick-fil-A employee who was a witness and “identified the defendant with certainty.”
Police say the second victim’s name was redacted from the document due to next-of-kin notification needing to be made.
During the manhunt, police released a photograph of Mendoza Argueta alongside a picture of the 1997 Honda 4-door car he was last seen driving.
