Federal Agents Shoot Armed Woman They Say 'Boxed In' Authorities In Broadview

CHICAGO, IL — A woman was shot by federal agents in Broadview on Saturday after officials said they were rammed by vehicles and "boxed in" by 10 cars.

Federal agents were on routine patrol on Saturday when the shooting occurred, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

According to McLaughlin, agents exited their vehicles after they were boxed in and unable to move. McLaughlin said one of the drivers who rammed a law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon.

"Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed U.S. citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds," McLaughlin said.

The time of the shooting and the exact location weren't immediately known. No federal agents were seriously injured in this attack, McLaughlin said.

"(JB) Pritzker’s Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area," McLaughlin said. "There is a growing crowd, and we are deploying special operations to control the scene."

Officials said the unidentified woman was named in a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol bulletin last week for "doxing" agents and posting threatening messages online that were directed toward federal law enforcement.

The shooting is the second in less than a month that involved federal agents.

Shortly after dropping his child off at school, 38-year-old Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Franklin Park on Sept. 12. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, Villegas-Gonzalez drove his car into law enforcement just before the shooting.

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Following Saturday's shooting, a crowd gathered to protest and was met with pepper balls and tear gas deployed by federal agents, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Elizabeth Ruiz of Gage Park said agents also rammed a vehicle into her son’s truck and took him into custody. The 21-year-old, who is a U.S. citizen, was being held inside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle nearby, according to the Times.

“Why would they take him? He was just at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Ruiz said. “My son has nothing to do with that. They need to let him go.”

The shooting also happened on the same day President Donald Trump's administration said it plans to federalize 300 National Guard troops in Illinois, according to Gov. JB Pritzker.

“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,” Pritzker said in a statement shared on social media. “It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will."

Pritzker did not say where the troops would be sent.

Pritzker continued, "I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump’s acts of aggression against our people. In Illinois, we will do everything within our power to look out for our neighbors, uphold the Constitution and defend the rule of law."

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