An ICE agent wounded a Dominican man in the Bronx during an enforcement operation while a five-year-old was in the car; Mayor Mamdani called the shooting an outrage and pressed for the operations to stop.
An ICE agent shot and wounded a 28-year-old man from the Dominican Republic on Thursday afternoon in the Marble Hill area of the Bronx while the man was in a car with a five-year-old child, according to city and federal accounts. The child was not physically harmed.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani described the shooting as an outrage and said agents had surrounded the vehicle. He stated that he spent hours on the phone with President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin seeking the man's release, without success, and called for ICE enforcement operations in the city to stop.
The Department of Homeland Security said the action was a targeted enforcement operation against an undocumented man with a prior conviction. Police reported the man was taken to a hospital conscious. Protests formed in the neighborhood afterward.
Local elected officials joined the criticism of the tactics and the presence of a child. No independent video of the moment of the shooting has been released in the initial reports.
The man remains in custody related to the immigration matter while receiving treatment. Further details on the sequence that led to the discharge of the weapon have not been fully released by federal authorities.
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- Zohran Mamdani called the shooting an outrage and demanded ICE halt operations in New York.
- Neighborhood residents gathered in protest after the incident.
- DHS described the man as having a prior conviction and the operation as targeted.