An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and injured a man in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, in an incident that New York officials say happened while a five-year-old child was in the car with him, touching off angry protests and a public dispute between the city and the Trump administration over the agency's tactics. The shooting took place around 4 p.m. in the Marble Hill neighborhood, according to the New York Police Department, during what the Department of Homeland Security called "a targeted enforcement operation" to arrest "a criminal illegal alien."
DHS said in a statement that the man, who officials did not name, was from the Dominican Republic and had "a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny, and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession," along with alleged ties to the Trinitarios gang. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said separately that the man, 28, had been arrested twice in the city, in 2023 and 2025 — a detail that does not fully match the record DHS described, an inconsistency neither agency has publicly addressed. The man was hospitalized and conscious; the child was located safe with a family member after a wellness check, Tisch said.
City officials demand answers
Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the shooting "unconscionable and incredibly serious," saying "early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a five-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds," though he said the child was not physically harmed. In a later post on X, Mamdani wrote: "I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities. … Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE off our streets." Governor Kathy Hochul said she told President Trump she had conveyed "outrage on behalf of New Yorkers" and asked that body-camera footage be released "so we can establish the facts and get to the truth."
"The pain that you're witnessing is people who are witnessing their neighbors, their family members, their friends being ripped away."
Murad Awawdeh, president, New York Immigration Coalition
Protesters gathered at the scene and later outside the hospital where the man was being treated, clashing briefly with police behind barricades. Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson told the crowd, "We are a working-class community. We don't deserve this type of treatment," while Public Advocate Jumaane Williams also addressed demonstrators. Awawdeh called for an independent investigation led by New York officials and for the officer who fired to face prosecution. The Trump administration has not yet commented publicly on the shooting, according to the BBC.
The incident adds to a string of shootings by immigration officers this year that has drawn sustained criticism from civil-rights groups; one tally cited by the Guardian counts at least two dozen people shot by U.S. immigration officers, including three American citizens killed, since the start of the administration. New York bars its police from assisting federal immigration enforcement, a policy that has put the NYPD and ICE at odds as the Bronx case unfolds alongside calls from city leaders for the administration to curtail enforcement operations in the five boroughs.
