At around 4 p.m. Thursday, masked, unidentifiable ICE agents with guns approached a 28-year-old man parking his car in Marble Hill. At least one of them shot seven rounds at the driver, shattering the windshield and striking him in the neck below his ear. His 5-year-old son was sitting in the backseat of the car when this happened. Miraculously, the child was uninjured. The neighborhood, a working class area right near a train stop and a busy commercial corridor on 225th Street and Broadway, was bustling with people, including kids who had recently been let out of school.
Iris Rosa, a social worker who works for the City's Department of Education and lives nearby, told Hell Gate she was coming home from work when she heard gunfire. "When we heard the shots ring out, everybody started screaming, we all turned around, we ran," she said. "We went into the stores. We stayed in there for a while."
The scene of the shooting is surrounded by apartment buildings, while a high school and a middle school sit blocks away. Rosa said many neighbors witnessed the man, bleeding and handcuffed, sitting on the pavement. "The kids are like, confused, 'What's going on?'" she said. "For us, it didn't look like ICE. It looked like some other kinds of workers…They said that the baby was in the car when they shot into the car."