When Meagan Morris drove to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Alvarado on July 4, it was to show her support for people detained amid immigration crackdowns led by the Trump administration this year. Morris, 41, said she and a few others planned to set off fireworks as part of a noise demonstration outside the Prairieland Detention Center.

Upon arriving, Morris said she parked half a mile away and never got out of her car as she played on her Nintendo Switch and waited for the other people who rode with her.

That’s when she said she heard a gunshot and realized someone had gone wrong.

“I don't know what happened,” Morris said in a phone call interview with KERA News. “We sure did not plan for any sort of violence or anything to go wrong like that. ”

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