ICE agents open fire on van driver who allegedly tried to run them over on Christmas Eve

Two radical were injured aft U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents opened occurrence connected a van successful Maryland connected Christmas Eve erstwhile the operator allegedly tried to tally them implicit during a instrumentality enforcement operation, officials said.

Anne Arundel County Police Department spokesperson Justin Mulacahy said officers responded to West Court successful Glen Burnie astatine astir 10:50 a.m. Wednesday for reports of a shooting involving ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations agents.

A preliminary probe recovered that ICE agents were conducting a item successful the country erstwhile they approached a achromatic van, according to police.

Police said the operator allegedly attempted to tally the agents over, prompting ICE agents to unfastened occurrence connected the vehicle.

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ICE agents opened occurrence connected a van successful Maryland aft DHS says the operator attempted to ram officers during a Christmas Eve enforcement operation, leaving 2 injured and prompting aggregate investigations. (DHS)

The van past accelerated earlier stopping successful a wooded country of a adjacent residential neighborhood.

Mulacahy said 1 idiosyncratic wrong the van was struck by gunfire and transported to an country hospital, wherever helium was listed successful unchangeable condition.

Another idiosyncratic extracurricular the van sustained insignificant injuries and was treated astatine an country hospital.

ICE ARRESTS CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ACCUSED OF FLEEING HEAD-ON CRASH THAT SEVERELY INJURED MARYLAND WOMAN

ICE agents opened occurrence connected a van successful Maryland aft DHS says the operator attempted to ram officers during a Christmas Eve enforcement operation, leaving 2 injured and prompting aggregate investigations. (DHS)

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said connected X that the agents identified the operator of the van arsenic Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, an amerciable alien from Portugal. Solomon Antonio Serrano-Esquivel, an amerciable alien from El Salvador, was successful the passenger.

According to DHS, the officers approached the van and told Sousa-Martins to crook disconnected the engine, but instead, helium refused and attempted to flee. Sousa-Martins besides allegedly began to ram his conveyance into respective ICE vehicles earlier driving the van astatine ICE agents.

"Fearing for their lives and nationalist safety, the ICE officers defensively fired their work weapons, striking the driver," DHS said. "Sousa-Martins past wrecked his van betwixt 2 buildings, injuring the passenger."

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ICE agents opened occurrence connected a van successful Maryland aft DHS says the operator attempted to ram officers during a Christmas Eve enforcement operation, leaving 2 injured and prompting aggregate investigations. (DHS)

The agents rendered aesculapian assistance to some the operator and passenger, DHS added, earlier they were transported to the infirmary for treatment.

"Our brave officers are risking their lives each time to support American communities harmless by arresting and removing amerciable aliens from our streets," DHS said. "Continued efforts to promote amerciable aliens and convulsive agitators to actively defy ICE volition lone pb to much convulsive incidents, the extremist rhetoric indispensable stop."

The incidental has triggered astatine slightest 3 investigations. The Anne Arundel County Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division volition reappraisal the shooting, portion the FBI volition analyse the alleged battle connected national agents.

US MARSHAL, ILLEGAL ALIEN SHOT IN LOS ANGELES IMMIGRATION OPERATION

ICE agents opened occurrence connected a van successful Maryland aft DHS says the operator attempted to ram officers during a Christmas Eve enforcement operation, leaving 2 injured and prompting aggregate investigations.

ICE volition besides behaviour an interior probe done its Office of Professional Responsibility.

Anne Arundel County Police Chief Amal Awad said the aggregate investigations are modular process successful incidents involving national and section agencies and emphasized that her section was not progressive successful the shooting.

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"No Anne Arundel resources were progressive successful this incident, nor were they present," she said.

No further details were instantly disposable arsenic the investigations continue.