ICE agents in Northern California shoot man after he allegedly tries to run them over - BERITAJA

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers successful Northern California changeable and wounded a man wanted for execution aft he allegedly tried to usage his conveyance to tally complete an serviceman — a declare antecedently made successful respective shootings involving the agency.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said successful a written connection that agents conducted a conveyance extremity Tuesday successful the Stanislaus County metropolis of Patterson to apprehension a man wanted successful relationship pinch a execution successful El Salvador. He alleged the man is simply a personnel of 18th Street, 1 of the largest thoroughfare gangs successful the world.

“As officers approached the car, the wanted pack personnel weaponized his conveyance successful an effort to tally an serviceman over,” Lyons said successful the statement. “Following their training, our officers fired protect shots to protect themselves, their chap agents and the public.”

He said the suspect, identified arsenic Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, was taken to a hospital. His information was not instantly available.

“The FBI is connected the scene,” Lyons said. “This is simply a processing business and we will update the nationalist erstwhile much accusation is available.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security referred The Times to Lyons’ statement.

The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office said it was assisting pinch a shooting involving ICE agents.

“At this time, we could corroborate that nary section rule enforcement was progressive successful the incident,” the section posted connected Facebook. “The fishy was transported to a section infirmary for further aesculapian attention.”

The section said the on- and off-ramps connected the 5 Freeway astatine Sperry Avenue were closed and were expected to stay truthful for the remainder of the day.