A federal immigration agent shot a man in New York City on Thursday afternoon, city officials said.
The shooting occurred around 4 p.m. in Marble Hill, a Manhattan neighborhood that borders the Bronx, the New York Police Department said in a post on X. The person was conscious and is being treated at a hospital. No NYPD officers were involved or at the scene at the time of the shooting, the department said.
The Department of Homeland Security wrote in a post on X that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were conducting a “targeted enforcement operation” when an officer “discharged his weapon” and injured a man, who the department said was an unauthorized immigrant from the Dominican Republic.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the man and a 5-year-old had been surrounded by agents, though the child was physically unharmed after the altercation. The mayor called the event “unconscionable” and said he had called President Donald Trump about the “incredibly serious situation.”
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“I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city,” Mamdani wrote.
He ended the post by calling to “abolish ICE.”
A spokesperson for Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-New York) said that the congressman had been denied access to the man who had been shot. The man’s family, the spokesperson said, has also not been allowed to see him.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said she expected federal officials to “provide a full and transparent accounting” of the shooting. Espaillat demanded in a post on X that all footage be preserved and unaltered.
When reached for comment, the NYPD referred The Washington Sun to its earlier post on X. The mayor’s office and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for additional comment.
This is a developing story.
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