Federal agents shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Texas last year, but initial reports did not reveal their involvement, with the details now coming to light through internal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records.
Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was shot by an ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officer in South Padre Island, Texas, on March 15, 2025, after what ICE described as a failure to follow law enforcement instructions during a traffic incident as agents worked with local police on immigration enforcement
While Martinez’s death was reported in local media at the time, the reports did not identify HSI involvement or disclose that a federal agent fired the shots through the driver-side window.
*Newsweek* is reporting new details based on internal incident reports obtained by the watchdog American Oversight through a Freedom of Information Act request and reviewed by *Newsweek*, as well as publicly available information.
ICE Nazis are terrorists. Trump and ICE must be charged and jailed in the next administration.
tomorrowdog on
This is funny because a main conservative talking point is that immigration enforcement in Texas doesn’t have violent incidents, so it is just Minnesotans being incited by their politicians.
mowotlarx on
Turns out the biggest danger to ICE agents is…ICE agents.
Original_moisture on
I live here and this is a first for me I’m hearing of this. I’m pretty tapped in nationally but it seems I have a blind spot for local local.
Hard to follow local tv channels but what the fuck.
mettiusfufettius on
How many innocent Americans must die in order to supposedly prevent the deaths of innocent Americans?
black_flag_4ever on
They buried this story. Who else? What else have they done? What other horrors will we learn about when this is over?
Joegotbored on
It sounds exactly like Renee Good or Marimar Martinez except in this case we have no way to confirm claims he accelerated into an agent, other than the testimony of the agents and govt, which has been proven to be suspect.
Hidden_Landmine on
Luckily it happened in Texas where they don’t care about others, hence why it was never a big deal I guess.
DaGinchy on
Admins would get real angry if I said what I wanted to say.
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From the article:
Federal agents shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Texas last year, but initial reports did not reveal their involvement, with the details now coming to light through internal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records.
Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was shot by an ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officer in South Padre Island, Texas, on March 15, 2025, after what ICE described as a failure to follow law enforcement instructions during a traffic incident as agents worked with local police on immigration enforcement
While Martinez’s death was reported in local media at the time, the reports did not identify HSI involvement or disclose that a federal agent fired the shots through the driver-side window.
*Newsweek* is reporting new details based on internal incident reports obtained by the watchdog American Oversight through a Freedom of Information Act request and reviewed by *Newsweek*, as well as publicly available information.
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ICE Nazis are terrorists. Trump and ICE must be charged and jailed in the next administration.
This is funny because a main conservative talking point is that immigration enforcement in Texas doesn’t have violent incidents, so it is just Minnesotans being incited by their politicians.
Turns out the biggest danger to ICE agents is…ICE agents.
I live here and this is a first for me I’m hearing of this. I’m pretty tapped in nationally but it seems I have a blind spot for local local.
Hard to follow local tv channels but what the fuck.
How many innocent Americans must die in order to supposedly prevent the deaths of innocent Americans?
They buried this story. Who else? What else have they done? What other horrors will we learn about when this is over?
It sounds exactly like Renee Good or Marimar Martinez except in this case we have no way to confirm claims he accelerated into an agent, other than the testimony of the agents and govt, which has been proven to be suspect.
Luckily it happened in Texas where they don’t care about others, hence why it was never a big deal I guess.
Admins would get real angry if I said what I wanted to say.
Reddit gonna make this story disappear too
Almost like they are trained to murder