Man shot by ICE agents during operation in New York City, DHS says
By John Miller, Julianna Bragg and Mark Morales, CNN
(CNN) — A man from the Dominican Republic was shot by federal immigration agents during a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx on Thursday, according to the Department of Homeland Security, marking the first shooting involving ICE agents in New York City since President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Federal authorities have not explained what led up to the shooting of the 28-year-old, whose name has not yet been released. DHS said the man has ties to the Trinitarios gang and prior criminal convictions and arrests.
Just after 4 p.m., agents with ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations — a branch of ICE focused on arresting undocumented immigrants — encountered the man when a federal agent discharged a weapon into his vehicle, a law enforcement source told CNN.
The man’s injuries, a graze wound to the neck, were not considered life-threatening, and police transported him to the hospital in a police car and did not wait for an ambulance, according to the law enforcement source.
A 5-year-old was sitting in the back of the car when the shooting occurred and was not injured, the source told CNN.
DHS said agents immediately provided aid after the man was shot but did not explain what led to the shooting during the operation.
The man has a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny and prior arrests for assault, robbery, drug possession and weapons possession, according to DHS.
Two agents were also injured in the encounter, according to a law enforcement source, and they also are being treated at a local hospital. One of the agents may have been injured in a car accident, though it’s unclear if the accident was part of the attempted arrest or response, according to a federal official.
CNN asked DHS whether the officers involved were wearing body cameras. The agency referred CNN back to its original statement, which made no mention of body cameras.
The shooting comes the same week as ICE leadership told agents to increase arrests by 1,000 more people daily, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive — a move by the Trump administration to double down on its immigration promises despite some Republican unease over who the agency is targeting.
At the time of the shooting, witnesses reported to police they saw a man dressed in a bright yellow construction vest holding a gun. Witnesses also told officers they heard five to six gunshots and people screaming, according to police officials.
Video purportedly from the scene shows a man matching that description holding a semi-automatic rifle and wearing an ICE badge around his neck.
NYPD were not involved in the incident in the Marble Hill neighborhood just north of Manhattan, the department said in a statement. After the shooting, NYPD officials called for a mobilization to deal with crowd control and evidence at the scene.
Hours after the shooting, agents with Homeland Security Investigations and police officers could be seen walking behind yellow police tape as a group of protesters started gathering at the scene.
HSI responded to the scene to take over the investigation of the shooting, according to a federal source, similar to the law enforcement response to the September 20 ICE shooting in Austin, Texas, which left a man from Venezuela wounded.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement he has “called the President” and “will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city.”
Mamdani and Trump had not yet spoken as of Thursday evening, according to a spokesperson for the mayor.
“Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery,” Mamdani said. “Get ICE out of our neighborhoods.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she’s been briefed on the incident.
“We expect federal authorities to provide a full and transparent accounting of the circumstances surrounding this incident,” she said in a statement. “New Yorkers deserve to know exactly what happened and why.”
Local leaders and city council members called on DHS to release all available body camera footage and for the state attorney general’s office to launch an independent investigation into the shooting during a Thursday night news conference.
“We want justice for this family, we want it for this neighborhood,” New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat said at the news conference. “And as I said before, I say today, we need to get rid of ICE.”
“Whether you’re in the Bronx or Manhattan, whether you’re documented or not, whether the color of your skin or your religion, you are a New Yorker first, … and New Yorkers stand up for New Yorkers,” Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal said.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez, Maria Aguilar Prieto, Gloria Pazmino, Taylor Galgano, August Phillips and Amanda Jackson also contributed to this report.
