U.S. Immigrations and Customs
Enforcement agents shot a person in New York City on Thursday afternoon, according to police.
The shooting took place around 4 p.m. in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood, according to a
statement
from the New York Police Department. The NYPD said the victim was taken to a local hospital and was conscious, but provided no further information about the victim.
Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., told The Intercept that there was a child in the car and that the child is OK, which New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani later confirmed in a
statement
.
“This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds,” Mamdani said. “We believe the child was physically unharmed.”
At a press conference, Espaillat said that he attempted to visit the shooting victim in the hospital, but was prevented from doing so by federal authorities.
“I went to the hospital to see the victim,” Espaillat said, “but we were not allowed by ICE agents to go in the room.”
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A neighbor, Iris Rosa, said the shooting happened just as a nearby school was being let out. After hiding in a store for a few minutes, she said she went to look at the scene and said it looked like agents had shot into a car.
The victim, Rosa said, was on the ground bleeding and being held down by the agents. A baby, she said, was in the car and was held by ICE agents until someone picked the child up.
Photos of the aftermath of the shooting, taken by a neighbor and obtained by The Intercept, show apparent government agents in plain clothes and tactical vests pinning a man on the asphalt. Another man in a high-visibility vest is clutching an assault rifle while holding a phone between his cheek and shoulder.
The aftermath of a shooting, reportedly by ICE agents, of a vehicle in Ne
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