Stephany Gauffeny Garcia says right now, her husband looks nothing like she remembers him.

“It’s really hard seeing him like that because it doesn’t look like him at all, you know; his face is swollen, you know, his head is all stapled, you know, wounds everywhere, tubes going down his throat,” she said.

She and her attorneys say her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia, was one of the detainees in the back of an ICE transport van when a sniper opened fire on Wednesday morning.

NBC News has independently confirmed Garcia’s identity.

Gauffeny Garcia said the surveillance video was difficult to watch.

“I did not want to look at it. I told my sister, ‘I don’t want to look at it.’ Because, You know, that’s basically the moment that he was getting shot at,” Gauffeny Garcia said as she cried.

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