“He doesn’t know what happened. He doesn’t remember anything that happened after he was tasered. He’s blank,” Mejia Hernandez’s attorney, Carlos Jurado, told HuffPost.

The injuries Mejia Hernandez sustained on Aug. 11 were many and massive, Jurado explained. Both of the 45-year-old man’s eyes were blackened, lacerations etched his face and multiple stitches were needed to close shut deep cuts on his lips.

Mejia Hernandez told Jurado that he recalled fleeing two men who burst out from a truck. Why they were chasing him is unclear — Mejia Hernandez did not have a removal order at the time of the alleged assault.

Mejia Hernandez says that after finally waking up in the hospital, ICE officers never left his room and would often prevent him from questioning doctors or nurses. When he was able to ask someone for help, he claims medical staff said they had no information about how he had been injured. Only the quiet whispers of a Spanish-speaking nurse confirmed to him that he had a brain bleed, Jurado said.

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As he fled in fear, Mejia Hernandez alleges he didn’t get far before something struck him hard in his back and he lost consciousness. When he came to, he was in a hospital bed with two ICE officers present.

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Regardless of a person’s citizenship status, ICE officers are not allowed to use excessive force; when they do, only “necessary and reasonable” force is permitted.

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A recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union showed that of 1,200 immigration enforcement incidents reviewed, over 400 involved misconduct by ICE personnel, including pushing, shoving, deploying chemical munitions or using chokeholds that restrict breathing.

Dozens of people have been killed by ICE officers or died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term. Time reported this month that ICE detention deaths are at a 22-year high.

Though eager to launch a probe, Jurado told HuffPost that, for now, they are focused on Mejia’s health and recovery. A preliminary hearing weighing whether he might be deported will be held on Sept. 14 in Virginia.

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Discharged within 72 hours and allegedly without further explanation about his injuries, Mejia Hernandez said no one contacted his family to let them know he had been detained, let alone injured and hospitalized. His attorney said after discharge, he was given immigration forms to complete, a hearing date and fitted with an ankle monitor to track his location.

That ankle monitor became its own massive headache, Jurado said. For days after his discharge from the hospital, Mejia Hernandez continued to feel unwell. He went to a second hospital and was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury. But with the ankle monitor on, Jurado said doctors were unable to perform an immediate and complete evaluation of Mejia Hernandez.

It wasn’t until Wednesday — more than a week since he was first hospitalized, Jurado told HuffPost — that Mejia Hernandez finally received an MRI.

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Calls for a probe into the alleged assault are mounting. Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) has called on DHS to establish the facts and hold anyone responsible to account.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Beyer said they are concerned about a particular “group of ICE agents” who have been in Virginia of late.

Just a day before Mejia Hernandez was beaten, a northern Virginia woman and U.S. citizen, Carolina Molina, said ICE personnel pulled a gun on her during a traffic stop. Molina was going to an immigration office to drop off business cards when she saw ICE officers making arrests. Dashcam footage Molina shared publicly shows her being surrounded by ICE while in her vehicle. On approach, a gun is already drawn and pointed at her head. ICE has accused Molina of trying to run them over, according to ABC News. Molina said she feared for her life.