ICE officer shoots a man in his car with a 5-year-old in the back seat in Manhattan's Marble Hill

Mayor Zohran Mamdani says he will ask Trump to end all ICE enforcement in New York City; DHS has not said what led the officer to fire.

The shooting. About 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, ICE officers shot a man inside his car during an arrest operation in Marble Hill, a sliver of Manhattan on the Bronx side of the Harlem River. A 5-year-old in the back seat was not hurt. The man was conscious and being treated at a nearby hospital, NYPD said, and is expected to survive. NYPD officers were not on scene. The response. DHS said an officer fired his weapon and listed the man's alleged criminal history, but did not say what prompted the shots. An FBI evidence team is assisting DHS investigators. Kathy Hochul (Gov-D New York) called for a full federal accounting: "New Yorkers deserve to know exactly what happened and why." “Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.” — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, on X Still open. What threat, if any, the officer faced before firing. No footage of the seconds before the shots has been released.

What can block a state case against the officer:

The Manhattan district attorney can bring state charges, but the officer can move the case to federal court and claim immunity if he honestly and reasonably believed firing was necessary.
That defense has worked in New York before: in 2004 a federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a state manslaughter indictment against a DEA agent over a fatal Brooklyn shooting.
ICE body-camera footage is not guaranteed to be made public: an ICE committee reviews it, and the ICE director can withhold it.

ContextICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency that arrests and deports immigrants) has its own rule for this kind of shot. DHS Policy Statement 044-05, revised Feb. 6, 2023, bars officers from firing at the driver of a moving car unless they reasonably believe the person poses an imminent threat of death or serious injury. Trying to drive away does not count. No account so far says whether this car was moving. CBS News counts at least 30 shootings by DHS agents since Trump's second term began on Jan. 20, 2025. New York's attorney general will not take the case: the office's special unit for police shootings handles only deaths, and it excludes federal officers. Marble Hill is part of Manhattan but sits on the Bronx side of the Harlem River, which is why Fox News placed the shooting in the Bronx.