{"id":369284,"date":"2026-10-09T21:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369284\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T21:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:44:24","slug":"mullin-ice-not-aware-of-child-in-car-when-they-shot-at-driver-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369284\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullin: ICE \u2018not aware\u2019 of child in car when they shot at driver in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that immigration officers did not know there was a 5-year-old in the car when one of them shot the driver<\/a> in an attempt to apprehend him during out a targeted operation in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wasn\u2019t aware the child was in the car, I can tell you that,\u201d Mullin said at a news conference Friday morning, suggesting that the driver, Oscar Belgal, had endangered the child.<\/p>\n

\u201cOscar knew he had a child in his car,\u201d Mullin continued. \u201cOscar chose to accelerate at a high rate of speed and ram two different vehicles as he was \u2014 as he appears to be going towards officers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Belgal was shot in the neck during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in the Bronx, New York City, on Thursday. The shooting, which occurred in a largely residential area, has sparked a wave of criticism from local authorities, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who called it an \u201coutrage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mullin told reporters on Friday that Belgal, whom he identified as an undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic, was the target of an ongoing investigation and that Belgal had evaded arrest in September. Mullin said ICE officers \u2014 who were in plainclothes and driving unmarked vehicles, according to bystander video \u2014 identified themselves to Belgal and \u201cgave lawful orders\u201d as they approached the car.<\/p>\n

According to Mullin, Belgal then \u201cweaponized his vehicle\u201d and accelerated toward the officers after striking two ICE vehicles, prompting the officers to open fire.<\/p>\n

New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Thursday that at least one ICE officer fired seven rounds during the encounter. New York City authorities have said that they believe the 5-year-old in the car was Belgal\u2019s son, who is now in the care of a family member.<\/p>\n

Belgal is currently in federal custody at a location outside of New York state, Mullin said. He declined to say where ICE had taken Belgal.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tClarissa-Jan Lim is a breaking news reporter for MS NOW. She was previously a senior reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that immigration officers did not know there was a 5-year-old in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-369284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369284","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=369284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}