{"id":571013,"date":"2026-04-08T03:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571013\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:25:13","slug":"ice-agents-shoot-man-in-car-in-northern-california-ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571013\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE agents shoot man in car in northern California | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot a man in a vehicle in northern California<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

ICE agents conducted a vehicle stop in Patterson, a rural agricultural town in California\u2019s Central Valley about 80 miles east of San Jose, to arrest Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, ICE director Todd Lyons said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Lyons described Hernandez as a member of the Los Angeles 18th Street gang and said he was wanted for questioning in El Salvador related to a murder. Lyons did not provide evidence of that allegation. The details of that investigation remain unclear.<\/p>\n

Hernandez was hospitalized after the shooting. A spokesperson for the Stanislaus county sheriff\u2019s office, which has jurisdiction over Patterson, declined to comment on Hernandez\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n

According to Lyons, as agents approached the car, Hernandez \u201cweaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over\u201d.<\/p>\n

In response, the officers \u201cfired defensive shots to protect themselves, their fellow agents, and the public\u201d, Lyons said. It is unclear how many shots were fired.<\/p>\n

KCRA-TV, an NBC affiliate in Sacramento, obtained<\/a> dashcam footage showing the Tuesday incident.<\/p>\n

In a video with no audio, three ICE agents were seen flanking a black sedan.<\/p>\n

The black sedan was pinned between two other vehicles \u2013 respectively at its front and back \u2013 with flashing police lights.<\/p>\n

As the officers appeared to reach into the vehicle, the black sedan reversed with its right passenger door open. That door collided with the car behind it.<\/p>\n

The agents appeared to have their weapons drawn as the car reversed.<\/p>\n

The black sedan then staggered forward in the direction of the officers, before taking a left turn to cross the median into the opposite side of traffic and disappearing from view in the clip.<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office wrote in a Tuesday post to Facebook that no local law enforcement officers were involved in the shooting. The local FBI office in Sacramento, which could not be reached for comment by phone, shared on social media that an investigation into the shooting was under way.<\/p>\n

California governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s office wrote on social media that he had been briefed on the incident. \u201cAs is established practice, we expect our federal law enforcement partners to appropriately collaborate with state and local law enforcement as this matter is investigated,\u201d his office said.<\/p>\n

The Patterson incident comes during a period of fierce scrutiny for ICE.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, the Trump administration has ramped up raids and arrests targeting undocumented immigrants, as the president seeks to fulfill a campaign promise to secure the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n

The deployment of federal immigration agents across the nation has spurred many protests. ICE agents have faced condemnation over violent clashes with demonstrators and have been accused by critics of displaying excessive use of force against those they have sought to detain.<\/p>\n

At least eight people have been shot by ICE agents in 2026.<\/p>\n

Patterson is home<\/a> to many Hispanic and Latino residents and is located in California\u2019s Central Valley, a farming hub. The region has seen a surge in ICE arrests \u2013 up by 58% after Trump returned to office between 1 January and 31 July of last year, according to the Fresno Bee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Patterson mayor Michael Clauzel did not immediately respond to a phone call for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot a man in a vehicle in northern California on Tuesday. ICE agents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-571013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}