An ICE agent shot and wounded a man in Marble Hill on Thursday during an arrest. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said a five-year-old in the car was not physically hurt.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and wounded a man in New York City on Thursday afternoon during an enforcement operation, federal officials said. The New York Police Department said the shooting was at about 4 p.m. in the Marble Hill neighborhood of the Bronx. The man was conscious and taken to hospital.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said early reports indicated agents had surrounded the man and a five-year-old child in a car before firing. He said the child was physically unharmed. CBC, citing the Associated Press, reported that Mamdani said the child is believed to be the son of the man, whom police identified as 28-year-old Oscar Belgal.
The Department of Homeland Security said on social media that officers were conducting an operation targeting an undocumented man from the Dominican Republic, the Guardian reported. DHS told the Associated Press that an officer discharged his weapon and that the man was injured, without describing what led to the shots. Mamdani said agents around the car wore construction vests and masks and that there was no reasonable way to identify them as ICE.
Mamdani said he had spoken with President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Mullin about releasing the wounded man and that those talks were unsuccessful. He demanded that ICE stop enforcement actions in the city. Residents protested in the neighborhood after the shooting.
No independent account of the sequence inside the car has been published in the reports cited here. The confirmed points are the location, the injury, the child's reported lack of physical injury, and the dispute over how the agents were identified.
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- Mamdani called the shooting an outrage and said the child in the car was not physically hurt.
- DHS described the operation as targeted enforcement and said an officer discharged his weapon.
- Mamdani said negotiations with Trump and Secretary Mullin over the man's release were unsuccessful.