Thread: ICE officer fires shots in grocery store parking lot while trying to make arrest

ICE officer fires shots in grocery store parking lot while trying to make arrest

POSTED 1:36 PM, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019, BY CNN WIRE

ICE officer fires shots in Antioch grocery store parking lot while trying to make arrest

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Metro police officers responded to a grocery store in Antioch after a federal immigration officer fired shots while trying to take someone into custody.

Published at: 10:00 AM, Thu Sep 05 2019

ANTIOCH, Tenn. — Metro police officers responded to a grocery store in Antioch after a federal immigration officer fired shots while trying to take someone into custody.

The call came in around 7 a.m. Thursday in the Food Lion parking lot on Richards Road.

Metro Nashville police confirmed an ICE officer fired shots at a box truck while trying to apprehend someone. The truck was later found at another location but no one was inside. Federal agents are now searching for the person involved. A spokesperson with the FBI said the agency is investigating a potential assault on a federal officer.

The FBI said there is no indication this person is a threat to the community.

According to police, Metro officers were not involved in the incident but stayed on site to secure the scene.

Agents with the FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security are handling the investigation. At this time, it’s not believed anyone was hurt.

Sky 5 flew over the scene and showed crime scene tape placed around other cars in the parking lot. The grocery store and adjacent businesses are open.

https://wgno.com/2019/09/05/ice-offi...o-make-arrest/

An ICE officer tried to stop a truck outside a Tennessee grocery store. Then he opened fire

By Catherine E. Shoichet, Geneva Sands and Maria Cartaya, CNN
Updated 10:03 PM ET, Thu September 5, 2019


Investigators place tape around the parking lot of a Tennessee grocery store after shots were fired.


Nashville, Tennessee (CNN)An ICE officer opened fire and wounded a man in a Tennessee grocery store parking lot as the officer attempted to make an immigration arrest Thursday.

The officer fired two shots after a driver he was trying to arrest during a fugitive operation drove toward the officer while fleeing the scene, ICE spokesman Bryan Cox said, citing initial reports.

While ICE operations are a regular occurrence across the United States, it's rare to hear of shots fired in public places as they unfold.

The FBI said a Mexican national was struck by gunfire in a Food Lion parking lot outside Nashville in Antioch. He turned himself in later and was receiving medical attention at a local hospital. The individual was not arrested and has not been charged by the FBI.

"Conclusions about the shooting incident should not be drawn until the investigation is complete," the agency said.

An FBI spokesperson earlier said the agency is now investigating a possible assault on a federal officer.

The FBI is the lead agency in the investigation, Cox said, and federal prosecutors will decide whether any criminal charges are filed.

ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility, which looks into all officer-involved shootings involving ICE, also is investigating, Cox said.

Investigators cordoned off the parking lot with crime scene tape and combed the scene for evidence.

The target of Thursday's ICE operation was a 39-year-old Mexican national who'd been deported multiple times, Cox said.

The truck he was driving is now in FBI custody, said Matt Foster, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Nashville office. The vehicle was found abandoned with blood inside, an ICE official said.

Nashville Mayor David Briley slammed the shooting in a statement, CNN affiliate WZTV reported.

"This is exactly what we don't want happening in our city," he said.

Cox declined to comment on the mayor's statement. He noted that Nashville is a jurisdiction that doesn't cooperate with ICE.

"Any time an officer has to pull over a vehicle and make an arrest on the street," Cox said, "that is the most dangerous way. ... This is a rare example, but it's nevertheless an example of the increased dangers that take place when this agency is forced to do more at-large arrests to take persons into custody."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/05/us/ic...red/index.html

"The truck he was driving is now in FBI custody"

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