{"id":368998,"date":"2026-10-09T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368998\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:46:10","slug":"oscar-belgal-accelerated-car-at-ice-in-nyc-shooting-feds-insist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368998\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Belgal &#8216;accelerated&#8217; car at ICE in NYC shooting, feds insist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A suspected migrant gang member tried to ram Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with his SUV in the Bronx Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/09\/us-news\/aoc-calls-for-full-and-independent-investigation-into-bronx-ice-shooting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before he was shot<\/a> in self-defense by the feds, a top agency official insisted Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The agents had tried to use their vehicles to box in 28-year-old Oscar Belgal before arresting him in Marble Hill, according to Marcos Charles, the head of ICE\u2019s Enforcement and Removal Operations division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe then accelerated his vehicle, smashing into two of our government ICE vehicles and then weaponized his vehicle and proceeded to accelerate going towards other officers,\u201d Charles narrated.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41253026\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-shooting-involving-federal-law-144308525.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold signs reading &quot;Stop ICE&quot; near a crime scene cordoned off with yellow police tape, following a shooting involving an ICE officer.\" class=\"wp-image-41253026\"\/>Protesters gather outside a crime scene after an ICE officer shot a man in the Marble Hill neighborhood of the Bronx in New York on Oct. 8, 2026. SARAH YENESEL\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.70605469;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41253027\" width=\"417\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ice-related-shooting-marble-hill-144303801.jpg\" alt=\"Federal agents stand near Oscar Belgal after he was shot during an encounter in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx, New York.\" class=\"wp-image-41253027\"\/>Oscar Belgal was receiving medical treatment at a nearby hospital before being placed in federal custody. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch had said Thursday that the department\u2019s Argus cameras captured Belgal in the driver\u2019s seat of a gray Honda CR-V that was backing into a parking spot when a plainclothes federal officer approached the driver\u2019s side window with his gun drawn.<\/p>\n<p>Another plainclothes agent approached the driver\u2019s side headlight when the vehicle began to move forward, out of the camera\u2019s view, the commissioner added.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin the ICE agents were wearing vest cameras and the footage will be made available as the investigation moves forward.<\/p>\n<p>Belgal was wounded in the incident and was treated at a local hospital before being removed to federal custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 A suspected migrant gang member tried to ram Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2035,3411,9,56,63,65,64,87,3980,58],"class_list":["post-368998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-ice","tag-migrants","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-politics","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}