Origin: ICE Officers Fire Seven Shots During Arrest

ICE officers approached Oscar Belgal’s gray Honda around 4 p.m. in Marble Hill as he pulled into a parking space. As the car began to move, an officer fired seven rounds, hitting him in the neck below his left ear while his 5-year-old son sat in the back seat. Seven shell casings were recovered, the front windshield was damaged and the rear window shattered.

Accounts of the lead-up diverge. In one, officers boxed in the Honda with government vehicles; the driver hit two of them and accelerated toward agents, who fired fearing for their safety and did not know a child was inside. Another has plainclothes agents in construction vests and masks, with no clear law-enforcement markings and at least one carrying a rifle, walking up to the car as it parked, and an officer opening fire as it began to pull forward.

No video of the shooting has been released, though arriving NYPD body-camera footage shows Belgal handcuffed on the pavement, a federal officer with a rifle, and police rushing him to a hospital. He was treated and released to federal custody, then moved to a detention site outside New York. A judge temporarily barred his removal pending a hearing.

AI-synthesized from multiple reported sources