Man shot and wounded by ICE officer in New York City
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man in a residential New York City neighborhood Thursday afternoon during what the agency called a "targeted enforcement operation."
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calling the incident an "outrage," said the man was in a vehicle with a 5-year-old child at the time.
"School had just gotten out. The street was crowded with families and children. When the ICE agent opened fire, a 5-year-old child ... was in the back seat of the car," Mamdani said in a late-night press conference on Thursday. "Thank God that child is physically unharmed."
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the 28-ear-year-old man who was shot was taken to the hospital with a gunshot to the neck below his left ear and arrived in stable condition. She said the boy, who authorities believe to be the man's son, was safe and in the care of a family member.
DHS says shooting happened during 'targeted enforcement operation'
The shooting occurred around 4 p.m. ET in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Marble Hill, the NYPD said.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said ICE officers were "conducting a targeted enforcement operation" in the area to arrest the man when one of the officers "discharged his weapon," injuring him. ICE officers rendered aid and the man is alive in a local hospital, DHS said.
DHS did not provide any details about what led up to the shooting, saying in a statement, "The incident remains under investigation. More information will be shared as it becomes available."
DHS did not identify the man who was shot. According to DHS, he is citizen of the Dominican Republic and is in the U.S. illegally. DHS said he has alleged associations to the Trinitarios gang and has a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny and "multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession."
NYPD: ICE officer fired 7 rounds
At the press conference with the mayor, Tisch said the man who was shot has two prior arrests in New York City, including one for robbery in 2023 to which he pleaded guilty to grand larceny and another in 2025 for the criminal sale of a controlled substance, which is still pending.
Tisch said the NYPD, which had no involvement in the shooting, responded to the scene after the shooting, finding several men in "various forms of attire," including some in construction-style vests, face masks and at least one carrying a long gun.
She said when officers arrived, the man who was shot was handcuffed and seated on the ground before NYPD officers placed him in one of their vehicles, rendered aid and took him to the hospital.
Evidence collected from the scene indicates at least one ICE agent fired seven rounds, Tisch said. There was ballistic damage to the windshield of the man's vehicle, a Honda CR-V, and the back window was also shattered.
The moments leading up to the shooting were captured on NYPD surveillance cameras, Tisch said.
The video shows the man backing into a parking spot near a fire hydrant before a plainclothes federal law enforcement officer approaches the driver's side door with his gun drawn, Tisch said. Another plainclothes officer approaches by the driver's side headlight, she said.
The vehicle then starts to drive away and goes out of camera view, Tisch said. The NYPD cameras did not capture the shooting itself, she said.
An ICE vehicle, a gray four-door sedan, had damage to the front panel and the lower panel was fully disconnected, Tisch said.
Mamdani said he spent 2 hours on phone with Trump, Mullin
At the press conference Thursday, Mamdani said he spent two hours on the phone with President Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin seeking to negotiate the release of the man who was shot.
But he said his efforts were not successful.
In a statement late Thursday night, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she had also spoken with Trump and the DHS secretary about the shooting.
"I expressed outrage on behalf of New Yorkers and urged them to halt ICE enforcement operations in New York," Hochul said. "I also asked that any body camera footage of the shooting be released to the public so we can establish the facts and get to the truth."
City officials have been told that ICE has been using a nearby Target parking lot on 225th Street as a staging area.
Protesters gathered in the hours following the shooting, some holding anti-ICE signs, as law enforcement worked the scene. Later, hundreds of protesters gathered outside New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in upper Manhattan where the man who was shot was being treated.
