ICE agent shoots man in car with five-year-old child in New York: Mayor

Mayor Zohran Mamdani says agents fired at a car with a child inside; DHS says it was conducting enforcement activity.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani says agents fired at a car with a child inside; DHS says the man was an arrest target.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents work at the scene where a man was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in New York City on October 8, 2026 [Ryan Murphy/Getty Images via AFP]

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has shot a man in the Marble Hill neighbourhood of New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said, calling the incident an “unconscionable and incredibly serious situation”.

In a statement he published on X, Mamdani said early reports on Thursday indicated agents surrounded the man and a five-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds.

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The child was believed to be physically unharmed, he added.

Mamdani said he had called President Donald Trump and would demand that he end all ICE enforcement actions in the city. “I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities,” he said.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said ICE officers were conducting a “targeted enforcement operation” in the Bronx at about 4pm to arrest a man it described as a Dominican national with a criminal conviction.

It said an officer “discharged his weapon” and the man was injured.

DHS said the incident remains under investigation.

According to a statement by the New York Police Department, the man remains conscious and is receiving medical treatment at a nearby hospital.

Protesters march from the scene of the shooting to a nearby hospital after an ICE officer shot a man in New York City on October 8, 2026 [Sarah Yenesel/EPA]

The shooting comes after months of mounting criticism of the agency.

In January, federal immigration agents shot dead two US citizens in Minneapolis: Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, killed by an ICE agent on January 7, and Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, shot by a US border agent.

After Good’s killing, Trump officials labelled her a “domestic terrorist” even as video of the shooting cast doubt on claims she had tried to run over an agent.

The federal government removed local authorities from the investigation, rejected calls for a civil rights probe, and sent hundreds more agents to Minnesota, bringing the total to 3,000, as protests spread to hundreds of US cities.

Trump blamed the shift in American opinion about the immigration agency on unfair media coverage, urging DHS and ICE to publicise the “violent criminals” they arrest.

ICE has been tasked with a target of one million deportations a year.

The agency doubled in size to more than 22,000 agents by January and is now the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency , with about $75bn allocated to it over four years under a tax bill Trump signed last year.

Protesters scuffle with police near the scene of the shooting of a man by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in New York on October 8, 2026 [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

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马姆达尼在 X 上发表的一份声明中表示，周四的早期报告显示，特工包围了这名男子和他的五岁孩子，然后开了几枪。

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美国国土安全部 (DHS) 表示，移民及海关执法局 (ICE) 官员于下午 4 点左右在布朗克斯区开展“有针对性的执法行动”，逮捕了一名据称是多米尼加公民且有犯罪记录的男子。

报道称，一名警官“开了枪”，该男子受伤。

美国国土安全部表示，该事件仍在调查中。