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Feds analyse ICE-involved shooting successful California
Federal and section authorities are investigating an ICE-involved shooting successful Patterson, California, connected Tuesday involving an amerciable migrant from El Salvador, who was allegedly wanted successful transportation with a execution investigation. (Courtesy KOVR)
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An alleged amerciable migrant pack subordinate wanted successful transportation with a execution probe successful El Salvador was changeable Tuesday by national agents successful California aft authorities assertion helium tried to tally implicit an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) serviceman with his car.
ICE Director Todd Lyons told Fox News the shooting unfolded aft ICE agents conducted a targeted conveyance halt successful Patterson, California, to apprehension Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, a suspected 18th Street Gang subordinate wanted successful El Salvador for questioning successful transportation with a murder.
Mendoza Hernandez was allegedly flagged by the National Targeting Center, according to a elder national instrumentality enforcement source.
As agents approached the car, officials said Mendoza Hernandez allegedly weaponized his conveyance successful an effort to tally implicit an officer.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents respond to the ICE-involved shooting country connected April 7, 2026. (KOVR/NNS)
"Following their training, our officers fired antiaircraft shots to support themselves, their chap agents, and the public," Lyons said.
Mendoza Hernandez was taken to a section hospital.
The grade of his injuries and existent information person not yet been released.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s Sacramento tract bureau said it is responding to the incident, which it said progressive ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
"We are conducting a thorough investigation," FBI Sacramento wrote successful a statement. "... [We] are grateful for the Patterson community's continued patience and support."
The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office said it is assisting with the investigation.
The section noted section instrumentality enforcement were not progressive successful the incident.
An cause of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) waits successful a hallway extracurricular of a courtroom astatine New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court wrong the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building successful New York connected July 17, 2025. US President Donald Trump has made deporting undocumented immigrants a cardinal precedence for his 2nd term, aft successfully campaigning against an alleged "invasion" by criminals. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)
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The incidental happened months aft Renee Nicole Good was changeable and killed Jan. 7 by an ICE cause successful Minneapolis, prompting nationwide protests.
Following the shooting, officials said Good was attempting to ram national agents with her car during an anti-ICE protest.
An FBI cause connected country of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good and representation of Good split. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images and ODU English Department/Facebook)
Patterson, California, is located astir 70 miles southeast of San Francisco, conscionable disconnected Interstate 5.
The agrarian metropolis is known for farming almonds, apricots and different crops.
Fox News' Michael Chin and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.
Alexandra Koch is simply a Fox News Digital writer who covers breaking news, with a absorption connected high-impact events that signifier nationalist conversation.
She has covered large nationalist crises, including the L.A. wildfires, Potomac and Hudson River aviation disasters, Boulder panic attack, and Texas Hill Country floods.
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