ICE Shoots At Man Who Hit Federal Agents With SUV: Authorities

ST. PAUL, MN — At least one federal agent fired at a man Sunday in St. Paul after the man struck two officers and multiple vehicles with his SUV, authorities said.

Local law enforcement responded around 8:20 a.m. to the 1300 block of Westminster Street in Payne-Phalen for a report of shots fired, according to St. Paul police, who said they arrived to find that a federal agent was involved in the incident.

The man driving the SUV, who was not injured, had tried to evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by ramming officers and vehicles — prompting officers to fire their weapons, the agency posted on social media, adding that the man had also attempted to flee on foot, resisted arrest and bitten an officer.

“The two officers who sustained injuries are okay,” ICE said in a social media post.

ICE agents had seen the man getting into his SUV and approached the vehicle, Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in an email, identifying themselves as being with the agency. When the man refused to roll down his window, they told him they would break it if he continued not to comply, she said.

The man drove off, striking one agent, and went to a parking lot of his apartment complex, where agents stopped him again and ordered him out of the SUV, McLaughlin said. He rammed his SUV into an ICE vehicle, striking the second agent and prompting the shots, which did not hit him, she said.

After ramming another ICE vehicle, the man got out of his SUV and tried to flee into his apartment, but agents brought him to the ground, McLaughlin said.

“No Saint Paul police officers were involved in the arrest or use of force,” the local department said in a news release.

McLaughlin said the man detained Sunday entered the U.S. in 2024 through a now-discontinued program implemented by former President Joe Biden's administration, allowing migrants without proper entry papers into the country while their asylum claims were reviewed.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.