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BREAKING: A Border Patrol-involved shooting has reportedly taken place in Minneapolis, law enforcement sources tell FOX News. DHS says the suspect was armed with a gun and two magazines and that CPR was performed on the suspect after the shooting.
A man shot Saturday morning in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers has died, federal and local officials said
The incident, the third shooting involving Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis this year, occurred shortly after 9 a.m. Central Time on the city’s South Side when federal law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation against a man the Department of Homeland Security said was undocumented and armed, and wanted for “violent assault.” Another individual approached the federal agents with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, DHS said.
“The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted,” DHS said in its statement.
DHS said the man who approached them had two gun magazines and no identification. The federal officer feared for his life and fired defensive shots. The agency did not publicly identify the dead man.
“This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement,” the agency said.
But Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said at a news conference Saturday afternoon that the victim was a 37-year-old white male resident of the city who is believed to be a U.S. citizen. His only known interaction with police was for traffic tickets, O’Hara said.
“We believe he is a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry,” O’Hara said.
The man was shot multiple times, possibly by more than one federal officer, O’Hara said. He was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
“We were not provided any public safety statement around the incident…” he said.
Renee Macklin Good, 37 and a mother of three, was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in her SUV as she drove away after partially blocking a Minneapolis street.
On Jan. 14, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celia, a Venezuelan national, was shot in the leg by immigration officers during an altercation with immigration officials.
WAR OF WORDS: The White House and the Department of Homeland Security are firing back at Democrats and the media, alleging that a viral story about a 5-year-old being used as “human bait” is a “malicious lie.” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson condemned what the administration views as mainstream media working “hand-in-glove with Democrats” to spread misinformation about ICE operations. “It’s shameful that the media so quickly runs with the fake Democrat narrative without first getting the facts. Here’s the reality: ICE officers work heroically with the utmost professionalism to make American communities safer. In this instance, they stayed with a child who was abandoned by his father — an illegal alien from Ecuador.”
NORTHERN EXPOSURE: President Trump warns Canada that any trade deal with China would lead to an end of their “general way of life,” while threatening to impose 100% tariffs on all Canadian products if a China-Canada trade deal happens.
