U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents shot a person in New York City on Thursday afternoon, according to police.
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The shooting took place around 4 p.m. in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood, according to a statement from the New York Police Department.
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The NYPD said the victim was taken to a local hospital and was conscious, but provided no further information about the victim.
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Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., told The Intercept that there was a child in the car and that the child is OK.
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“This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood.
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Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds,” New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement.
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“We believe the child was physically unharmed.”
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A neighbor, Iris Rosa, said the shooting happened just as a nearby school was being let out.
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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.
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The victim, Rosa said, was on the ground bleeding and being held down by the agents.
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A baby, she said, was in the car and was held by ICE agents until someone picked the child up.
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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.
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Another man in a high-visibility vest is clutching an assault rifle while holding a phone between his check and shoulder.
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Rosa, the neighbor, said a man with a high-visibility vest appeared to be posing as a construction worker, but as she watched, Rosa told The Intercept, the man took the vest and put it in a nearby vehicle.
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ICE agents routinely pose as construction workers in order to stakeout targets for immigrations.
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Representatives of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, ICE, and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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The victim is the latest of at least 25 people to be shot by federal immigration agents this year.
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In July, after two fatal ICE shootings and a botched arrest in Las Vegas by plainclothes agents wearing hooded sweatshirts, the agency mandated a new dress code for field operations.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she had been briefed on the shooting.
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“We expect federal authorities to provide a full and transparent accounting of the circumstances surrounding this incident,” she said on X.
“ICE’s violent tactics are a clear danger to all New Yorkers, as today’s shooting in a residential neighborhood demonstrates,” said Murad Awawdeh, the head of the advocacy group New York Immigration Coalition, in a statement.
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“This incident is another reminder of the unchecked, rampant violence ICE has been spreading throughout our communities.”
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This is a developing story and may be updated.
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