The Only Other Witness
The only passenger in the car when an ICE officer shot and killed a US citizen in Texas had planned to publicly contradict the government's official account of the shooting; before he could testify, he died in an unrelated car crash.
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The only passenger in the car when an ICE officer shot and killed a United States citizen in Texas in 2025 was Joshua Orta. Orta had planned to speak publicly and contradict the government’s official account of the shooting. He died in an unrelated car crash before he could do so.
The word “unrelated” is doing all the work in the sentence above, and the only thing the public has to support it is the absence of contradicting evidence. In a case where the contested fact is the killing of a United States citizen by a federal officer, the absence of contradicting evidence is no longer a neutral state.