What happened in other ICE shootings during Trump’s immigration enforcement?

An ICE agent who fatally shot a Minneapolis woman on Wednesday, Jan. 7, was not the first to shoot someone during immigration enforcement as President Donald Trump has stepped up raids nationwide.

Federal agents have either shot a person or fired a weapon 14 times since July, according to a database compiled by the news outlet The Trace.

The Trace found at least three people were killed and four injured in 12 of those shootings. Two other shootings involved off-duty officers. The data includes the Minneapolis fatality.

Nearly every case had a common factor with the Minneapolis shooting: officers shot or fired at, people in a vehicle.

Federal officials did not immediately comment on the Trace data but say there is a major uptick in people using vehicles as a weapon against law enforcement. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, said Wednesday that “we’ve seen over 100 of these vehicle rammings happen in just recent weeks.”

Noem said there were four attacks on federal officers in which they were rammed by vehicles on Wednesday alone, three of which happened in Minneapolis. She also said the same officer who fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, identified Thursday as Jonathan Ross, was “dragged by an anti-ICE rioter who had rammed him with a car” in June.

DHS has not provided information about the other Wednesday incidents.

In some instances, DHS’ account of events has been contradicted by video evidence. In at least three cases, charges against drivers were dropped or dismissed.

The Minnesota Star Tribune couldn’t find evidence of an immigration agent being charged in connection to any of the listed shootings.

The Trace uses data from an online archive of gun violence, as well as news reports, to track when federal agents shoot at people with guns or less-lethal munitions, or draw a weapon.

At least two shootings during immigration enforcement in 2025 happened in the Chicago area, where the Trump administration surged immigration enforcement for an operation they called “Midway Blitz.”

In September, an ICE officer fatally shot Silverio Villegas González after law enforcement pulled him over in suburban Chicago. DHS said Villegas González, who they say entered the country illegally, tried to evade arrest and seriously injured an officer when he drove his car at agents and dragged one of them a “significant distance.”

Another well-known case in Chicago came in October, when a Border Patrol agent shot Marimar Martinez several times. Federal prosecutors accused Martinez, an American citizen, of ramming her vehicle into an agent’s car and boxing it in.

DHS said officers were forced to fire defensively when “a suspect tried to run them over.”

The U.S. Department of Justice later dropped charges accusing Martinez and another defendant of using vehicles to assault, impede and interfere with the work of federal agents.

“The objective evidence would have proven that the agent was not telling the truth, that he shot a fleeing vehicle,” said Chris Parente, Martinez’s attorney and a former federal prosecutor.

Parente said there is a federal investigation into the agent and he’s preparing a civil lawsuit but that there is a high bar for suing in these cases.

A federal judge dismissed charges against a TikTok streamer shot by an ICE officer in October. DHS officials said the man used his car to ram a law enforcement vehicle in south Los Angeles. Body camera footage of the incident contradicted the DHS accusations.

Legal experts told the Minnesota Star Tribune that most law enforcement departments train officers to refrain from shooting at a moving vehicle, in part because of the danger such action could pose to officers and others in the surrounding area if the driver is incapacitated.

The Star Tribune asked DHS how many times federal prosecutors have charged someone for ramming or attempting to ram an immigration officer with a vehicle, and for more information about when Ross was dragged in June.

The agency responded by forwarding a news release about the June arrest of Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, who DHS said dragged an ICE officer 50 yards during a traffic stop while trying to evade arrest.

The agency said Munoz-Guatemala was convicted of repeated sexual abuse of a minor in Hennepin County District Court in 2022 and was an unauthorized immigrant from Mexico. A jury found him guilty of assaulting an officer in December.

In December, officials at Augsburg University said federal agents pointed weapons at a crowd during an arrest of a student. DHS described the man as an unauthorized immigrant and disputed the university’s account of the incident.

The Associated Press reported at least three people nationwide have died fleeing immigration authorities, including a man who fell from a roof and broke his neck.