DALLAS (AP) — Federal prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center last year was carried out by members of antifa, opening a closely watched trial that lawyers for the accused say seeks to wrongly punish a group of political demonstrators.

A passenger in the car with Ruben Ray Martinez wrote that the men were trying to comply with authorities before Mr. Martinez was shot. The passenger, Joshua Orta, died in a car accident on Saturday.

A Texas man who saw his friend get shot and killed last year by a federal immigration agent died last weekend in a fiery car crash.

A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper was wounded in a shooting and another person was killed during a traffic stop-turned-foot chase Monday morning.