ICE agent shoots man in Bronx car carrying child

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and injured an unidentified man during an operation in Marble Hill in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, Oct 9, while a five-year-old child was in the man’s car. According to DHS and accounts from the scene, the child sustained no physical injury, and the man remained awake following the gunfire before being transported to a nearby hospital.¹²³

Operation and shooting

DHS confirmed that an ICE officer fired a weapon during what it described as a targeted enforcement operation. The department said officers had been seeking an undocumented man from the Dominican Republic. The department reported that he had survived and was being treated at a nearby hospital. The agency did not publicly identify him in the accounts cited, and the full extent of his injuries was not known.¹²³

The shooting was reported to have occurred at about 4pm in Marble Hill. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said early information indicated that federal agents had surrounded the man’s car, with the five-year-old child inside, before firing several rounds. Video published in reports appeared to show an agent carrying what looked like an assault rifle after the incident, while other footage showed damage to the windshield of an SUV.¹²⁴

Official accounts and unanswered questions

DHS said the operation targeted a Dominican national with a prior grand-larceny conviction. It also said he had previous arrests involving assault, robbery, drug possession and weapons possession, and that New York police had arrested him in December 2023 before releasing him days later. DHS further alleged an association with the Trinitarios, which the US justice department describes as a transnational criminal group. The agency did not provide evidence for all of those assertions in the reported account.¹²

Accounts did not establish what prompted the agent to fire, how many shots were discharged, or the severity of the man’s injuries. DHS said the officer had “discharged his weapon”, while the mayor’s account described agents firing multiple rounds. The man’s identity was not released in the material provided.¹²

Political response

Mamdani described the episode as “This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation”. He said he would ask Trump to remove federal immigration agents from New York City and to stop ICE enforcement activity there. Hochul said she had spoken to Trump and expressed outrage, while calling for a full and transparent explanation of what happened.¹²³⁴

Hochul also asked for any body-camera recordings to be made public. The New York Immigration Coalition called for an investigation and publication of agents’ body-camera video. Protesters gathered in the area soon after the shooting, and the NYPD put up barricades at the hospital, according to reports. Trump had not commented publicly at the time of the reports.¹²³