Updated Oct. 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m. ET
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot a man in New York City’s Marble Hill neighborhood on Oct. 8, according to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who said agents surrounded the man and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple times.
Mamdani said that the child was believed to be physically unharmed. He called the shooting near the Bronx “unconscionable” and said he had called President Donald Trump to demand that all ICE enforcement actions be halted in the city.
“I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities,” Mamdani wrote in an X post. “Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.”
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed on X that an ICE officer shot a man they described as an illegal immigrant. It said ICE officers immediately rendered aid and that he is alive at a local hospital.
“ICE officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx, New York, to arrest a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic,” Homeland Security said. “During the incident, an ICE officer discharged his weapon and the criminal illegal alien was injured.”
The Homeland Security statement said the man who was shot has “a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny, and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession. He has associations to the Trinitarios gang. The same gang who brutally killed a CBP officer last year.”
Thursday’s shooting happened around 4 p.m. ET in Marble Hill, a tiny sliver of Manhattan that sits across the Harlem River on the Bronx mainland. The New York Police Department said the person was taken to a nearby hospital and “is currently conscious and receiving medical attention.”
The shooting is the latest in a string of back-and-forth battles over immigration between the Trump administration and New York’s Democratic leaders. It comes one month after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin criticized New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Mamdani for not cooperating with federal immigration authorities and vowed that enforcement would continue as long as they put up resistance.
A spokesperson for NYPD said city officers did not take part in the Oct. 8 shooting.
Hochul said she had been briefed on the situation and urged federal officials to provide “a full and transparent accounting of the circumstances surrounding this incident.”
“New Yorkers deserve to know exactly what happened and why,” she wrote on X.
Homeland security did not make mention of the nearby child when the man was shot. Mamdani and at least one city immigrant group made mention of the child.
In a statement, the New York Immigrant Coalition advocacy group said that “around 4:15pm ET today, ICE shot a man at 225th and Marble Hill in the Bronx. The victim was shot through the windshield of their car with a 5-year-old child in the back seat.”
Homeland security said the shooting stemmed reckless “Democrat sanctuary polices” that it said allows dangerous criminals on the streets.
“This criminal illegal alien was arrested by the NYPD on December 7, 2023, but was released into the community a few days later by reckless Democrat sanctuary policies that put American lives at risk,” DHS said in its statement.
It added: “When dangerous illegal aliens are released back onto the streets by radical sanctuary politicians, our officers are forced to make arrests at large in the community in unpredictable and dangerous environments. Our officers should not have to risk their lives, and innocent Americans should not have to face unnecessary danger, because sanctuary politicians refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement.”
Marble Hill has recently become a flashpoint over immigration enforcement in the city. On Oct. 5, eight elected officials representing the area wrote a letter to the operators of a Target on West 225th Street, citing “increasing sightings” of ICE using the store’s parking lot as a staging area.
They asked whether the company had authorized that use and, if so, urged it to revoke permission. The letter noted that more than 50 local residents had written to Target in April asking it to stop cooperating with ICE.
“In a borough home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, our residents should not have to fear that their neighborhood shops are being used as a staging ground for immigration enforcement,” the officials wrote.
In a statement to USA TODAY, a Target spokesperson denied it was cooperating with ICE: “Target has no cooperative agreements with ICE or any other immigration enforcement agency.”
New York City Council member Eric Dinowitz, one of the letter’s signers, wrote on X that he was at the scene, “standing with my colleagues and the community against ICE.”
The shooting drew condemnation from local groups. The New York Immigration Coalition called for an immediate investigation, the release of body camera footage and accountability for any agents who used excessive force.
“ICE’s violent tactics are a clear danger to all New Yorkers, as today’s shooting in a residential neighborhood demonstrates,” Murad Awawdeh, the advocay group’s president and CEO, wrote in a statement. “This incident is another reminder of the unchecked, rampant violence ICE has been spreading throughout our communities.”
It is also the latest in a string of shootings by federal immigration agents across the country.
In January, agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis during a surge in enforcement there. Last month in Austin, Texas, an ICE officer shot and wounded Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, a Venezuelan man making DoorDash deliveries. At least 21 people had been shot by federal immigration agents during Trump’s second term before Oct. 8, according to an ABC News count.
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