An officer with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) opened fire on a man in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said, calling the incident a "serious and unacceptable" situation.
In a statement posted on X, Mamdani said initial reports on Thursday indicated officers had surrounded the man and a 5-year-old child in the vehicle before firing multiple shots. According to the mayor, the child is believed to have suffered no physical injuries.
The New York mayor said he had called President Donald Trump and would ask him to halt all ICE enforcement operations in the city. "I will not stand by while ICE agents spread fear in our communities," Mamdani said.
On the federal side, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said ICE officers were carrying out a "targeted enforcement operation" in the Bronx at around 4 pm to arrest a man the agency described as a Dominican national with a criminal conviction. DHS said an officer "discharged their firearm" and the man was wounded, adding that the incident remains under investigation.
According to a New York Police Department statement, the man remained conscious and was being treated at a nearby hospital.
After the shooting, protesters marched from the scene to a nearby hospital. Footage from the scene also showed demonstrators scuffling with police near the site of the incident.
ICE Faces a Wave of Criticism
The latest shooting comes after months of mounting criticism of ICE.
In January, federal immigration officers shot dead two US citizens in Minneapolis: Renee Nicole Good, 37, a mother of three, was shot by an ICE officer on 7 January, and Alex Pretti, 37, an intensive care nurse, was shot by a US Border Patrol officer.
After Good's killing, Trump administration officials branded her a "domestic terrorist," even though video of the shooting raised doubts about claims that she tried to run over an officer. The federal government shut local authorities out of the investigation, rejected calls for a civil rights probe and deployed hundreds more agents to Minnesota, bringing the total to 3,000, as protests spread across hundreds of US cities.
President Trump blamed unfair media coverage for shifting Americans' views of the immigration agency, and urged DHS and ICE to publicize the "violent criminals" they arrest.
ICE has been set a target of deporting one million people a year. By January, the agency had doubled in size to more than 22,000 employees and is now the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency, with roughly $75 billion allocated over four years under the tax bill Trump signed last year.
