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ONTARIO, Calif. (NewsNation) — Two men are successful custody aft 1 was changeable Thursday by national agents during an “immigration enforcement operation” successful Southern California.
The shooting, which is being investigated by the FBI, occurred astatine astir 6:30 a.m. successful the 2800 artifact of South Vineyard Avenue successful the metropolis of Ontario, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The antheral who national agents changeable was 24-year-old Carlos Jimenez, who drove his conveyance to a adjacent mobile location parkland wherever helium lives. His wife, who said helium had conscionable near for work, took him to the hospital.
Neighbors said they watched arsenic national agents searched Jimenez's residence and vehicle, which was yet taken distant by a tow truck.
He has since been released from the infirmary and taken to the West Valley Detention Center.
In a connection to NewsNation affiliate KTLA, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said ICE agents were conducting a postulation halt erstwhile an idiosyncratic who was not the people of the enforcement cognition pulled his conveyance successful beforehand of national agents’ vehicles.
Officers ordered the operator to permission the scene. As the operator began to propulsion away, the car stopped and attempted to tally officers implicit by reversing straight astatine them without stopping,” the connection read. “An ICE officer, fearing for his life, fired antiaircraft shots astatine the vehicle.”
The people of the enforcement operation, who was reportedly down the instrumentality of a grey Honda, whitethorn person attempted to fly during the melee, but was besides aboriginal apprehended.
“This is not the archetypal clip that DHS claims that vehicles are being utilized against them,” Javier Hernandez with the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice told KTLA.
“We cognize that DHS has enactment retired a connection saying that unit against these officers is up 8,000%, truthful this is not the archetypal clip this accusation is retired there,” Hernandez told KTLA. “We person besides seen however this accusation isn’t needfully accurate.”
NewsNation affiliate KTLA successful Los Angeles contributed to this report.
