The late-night confrontation took a dramatic turn when the elderly homeowner pulled out a gun and returned fire.
An off-duty ICE agent was shot and killed by a 72-year-old California father in an alleged assault.
Now, it’s the ICE agent who faces criminal assault charges.
It has not yet been determined why ICE officer David Gonzalez, 32, of Texas, was “in the area at the time of the incident, but it has been confirmed that he was off-duty and alone,” Fresno police said in a statement.
Police didn’t discover Gonzalez was an ICE agent until hours after his arrest. Local police have been in contact with ICE.
The father who shot the officer does not face charges, police said. He legally owns the gun he used in the shooting, authorities say.
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The trouble began when a Fresno woman discovered a strange man, who “appeared drunk and agitated,” lying on her lawn around 3:30 a.m. Friday, police said. She went inside to tell her father, who confronted the man and told him to leave.
Protesters took to the streets of Minneapolis earlier this year after an ICE agent fatally shot U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good.
That’s when police say Gonzalez assaulted the 72-year-old man. When the girl came to her father’s aid, Gonzalez also physically assaulted her, officials said. Police have not publicly identified the woman or her father.
“When the victim’s daughter tried to intervene on her father’s behalf, Gonzalez also physically attacked her, causing her to fall to the ground,” police said.
The father, fearing for their lives, drew his gun and shot Gonzalez in the “midsection,” police said. The woman then contacted her boyfriend, an off-duty police officer who was off duty at the time, who rushed to the home and handcuffed Gonzalez.
Gonzalez is being treated at a local hospital for a serious gunshot wound.
The horrific confrontation was the latest in a series of violent clashes involving ICE agents amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants.
On Thursday, ICE agents in New York fired multiple shots at a vehicle driven by a man who was accompanied by his 5-year-old son. The man was shot in the neck and is in stable condition in hospital. The boy was physically unharmed.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a news conference at the scene of a shooting involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the city.
“This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak, I will demand that he end all ICE enforcement in our city,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tweeted after the shooting. “I will not stand idly by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.”
He added: “Our hearts go out to the injured New Yorker and his family. We pray for his recovery. Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Keep ICE off our children. Abolish ICE.”
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