{"id":381342,"date":"2026-10-24T01:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T01:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/381342\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T01:48:11","slug":"judge-denies-medical-release-for-oscar-belgal-man-shot-by-ice-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/381342\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies medical release for Oscar Belgal, man shot by ICE in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

A judge denied a motion filed by attorneys for Oscar Belgal<\/a>, the undocumented immigrant shot in the neck<\/a> by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Bronx, seeking his emergency release for medical reasons, court documents show.<\/p>\n

Belgal\u2019s lawyers argued that Belgal\u2019s release was necessary \u201cto obtain the outpatient medical treatment he plainly requires,\u201d and that his \u201cphysical health is liable to degrade\u201d if he remains in detention.<\/p>\n

But federal Judge Hector Gonzalez noted in his ruling that the defendant\u2019s attorneys failed to satisfy the \u201cstringent\u201d requirements for emergency release.<\/p>\n

In addition, government submissions showed that Belgal received a full medical evaluation at Brooklyn Hospital Center, which concluded that he did \u201cnot need acute surgical or medical care at th[at] time and [did] not need specialized medical care while in custody,\u201d Gonzalez wrote in his ruling.<\/p>\n

The Legal Aid Society, which is representing Belgal, said in a statement that the ruling \u201cleaves Mr. Belgal in detention despite the concerns surrounding his deteriorating medical condition and raises serious questions about whether his health and basic human dignity are being given the weight they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Law<\/p>\n

Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officers investigate after ICE agents shot and wounded a man on Marble Hill Ave. near W. 225th St. in the Bronx on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Belgal, 28, was struck when ICE agents on Oct. 8 fired seven rounds into his silver Honda Civic SUV on Marble Hill Ave. near W. 225th St. in the Bronx. His 5-year-old son was in the backseat when ICE agents opened fire.<\/p>\n

Department of Homeland Security officials said Belgal \u201cweaponized his vehicle\u201d and accelerated at ICE officers who were trying to take him into custody but were unaware of the child.<\/p>\n

Belgal was shot in the neck. The boy was unharmed.<\/p>\n

DHS said on X that Belgal is \u201ca criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic\u201d who ICE had been searching for.<\/p>\n

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a press conference that Belgal is an associate of the Trinitarios street gang and may have \u201cdirect or indirect knowledge\u201d of the shooting of a federal Customs and Border Protection officer<\/a> in Fort Washington Park in Manhattan last year.<\/p>\n

The Marble Hill shooting sparked massive protests amid broad concern about ICE\u2019s presence in the city and reputation for using heavy-handed tactics.<\/p>\n

Mayor Mamdani, who supports the abolition of ICE, called the shooting an \u201coutrage\u201d and ICE a \u201crotten\u201d agency that works to \u201csow chaos and terror.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge denied a motion filed by attorneys for Oscar Belgal, the undocumented immigrant shot in the neck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128,3534,19695,43897,9198,75,44760,139734,139733,9,56,63,65,64,136227,139732],"class_list":["post-381342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bronx","tag-federal-court","tag-gunshot-wound","tag-ice-shooting","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-manhattan","tag-marble-hill","tag-medical-condition","tag-medical-release","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-oscar-belgal","tag-undocumented-migrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381342","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=381342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}