Warning: Graphic content A man was shot during an encounter with U.S. federal immigration agents in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, according to the New York Police Department. Just after 4 p.m., agents with ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations — a branch of ICE focused on arresting undocumented immigrants — encountered a person they were targeting, according to preliminary information from a law enforcement source. The agents shot into the man’s vehicle while a five-year-old, who is uninjured, was sitting in the backseat of the car, according to a law enforcement official. The man’s injuries, which included 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. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement its agents were conducting a targeted enforcement operation to arrest an undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic with prior criminal convictions and multiple arrests when a federal agent discharged a weapon, injuring the man. “He has associations to the Trinitarios gang,” DHS said in a statement. 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 who was shot by ICE agents is 28 years old, according to a law enforcement source. His criminal record includes a 2023 arrest for robbery, to which he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of grand larceny and was placed on probation for five years. He has a pending indictment for the sale of a controlled substance, the source added. Two agents were also injured in the encounter, according to the 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. 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 U.S. President Donald 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 neighbourhoods.” 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.”
