A federal agent was involved in a shooting Wednesday morning in the southern Los Angeles County community of Willowbrook, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.
The shooting was reported at about 7:30 a.m. in the 2400 block of 126th Street. The sheriff’s department said federal agents were conducting an operation when there was a brief pursuit that ended in a crash.
Video from NewsChopper4 showed a BMW with front-end damage and what appeared to be deployed air bags.
Shots were fired as someone was detained at the scene, the sheriff’s department said. No one was struck by gunfire.
It was not immediately clear how many rounds were fired.
Details about the operation and whether the person was in custody were not immediately available.
NBCLA has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for information.
Federal agents have been in the Los Angeles are conducting immigration enforcement operations for months as part of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign promise. Border crossings have plummeted and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests have doubled in the past year.
NBC News has been tracking immigration enforcement using ICE data both public and internal as well as data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. Through Jan. 8, 25.7% of the 68,990 migrants in ICE detention have criminal convictions; 48.4% are listed as “other immigration violator;” 25.9% have pending criminal charges; and 9.3% were fast-tracked for deportation, according to data obtained by NBC News.