ICE Agents Shoot Fleeing Van in Maryland Immigration Operation

Two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents fired shots at a white van in a suburban neighborhood outside Baltimore on Wednesday morning, injuring the driver and passenger during an attempted arrest, authorities said. The incident occurred around 10:50 a.m. in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, as federal officers conducted a targeted immigration enforcement operation.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE agents approached the van after identifying the driver, Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, a Portuguese national who has been in the United States illegally since his visa expired in 2009. The passenger, Solomon Antonio Serrano-Esquivel, a citizen of El Salvador also living in the country without legal status, was seated next to him. Officers instructed Sousa-Martins to turn off the engine, but he refused and attempted to drive away. Authorities said the driver then rammed the van into several ICE vehicles and accelerated toward the agents, prompting them to fire in self-defense.

The gunfire struck Sousa-Martins, who lost control of the vehicle and crashed it between two buildings in a wooded residential area near West Court. Serrano-Esquivel sustained...