{"id":280205,"date":"2025-10-05T20:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/280205\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:15:10","slug":"feds-charge-woman-shot-by-border-patrol-on-southwest-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/280205\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds charge woman shot by Border Patrol on Southwest Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal prosecutors have filed felony assault charges against a woman who was shot Saturday by U.S. Border Patrol on the Southwest Side, in what led to a heated confrontation<\/a> between federal agents and around 100 protesters.<\/p>\n

A Department of Homeland Security statement says the woman rammed her vehicle into the vehicle of federal agents, then took \u201cdefensive fire\u201d from the agents. The woman was treated at a hospital and was discharged into the custody of the FBI, the statement says.<\/p>\n

The charges filed Sunday morning accuse Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, of driving vehicles in a civilian \u201cconvoy\u201d that was following federal agents driving as part of a security detail for a Customs and Border Protection operation.<\/p>\n

According to the eight-page criminal complaint, the civilian vehicle \u201cdrove aggressively and erratically towards\u201d the federal agents\u2019 vehicles, disobeyed stop signs, red lights and drove \u201cthe wrong way down one-way streets in order to pursue the CBP Vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the agents\u2019 vehicle got to around 39th Street and Kedzie Avenue, civilian vehicles boxed them in, and Martinez drove her vehicle up along the driver\u2019s side of one of the agent\u2019s vehicles, according to the charges. That\u2019s when Martinez\u2019s vehicle sideswiped the federal vehicle, and Ruiz\u2019s vehicle struck the rear-right end of the federal vehicle, the charges state.<\/p>\n

Agents then got out of the vehicle, as Martinez then drove toward one of those agents, according to the charges. The agent then fired \u201capproximately five shots from his service weapon at the driver of the Martinez vehicle,\u201d the charges state. Martinez continued driving north on Kedzie, the charges state.<\/p>\n

After the shooting, Ruiz backed up his car and drove to a gas station, where authorities arrested him, according to the charges. Paramedics found Martinez at a repair shop near 35th Street and California Avenue, about a mile northwest of from where the shooting happened, and she was treated at a hospital for \u201cgunshot wounds,\u201d the charges state.<\/p>\n

The charges say the pair \u201cforcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated, and interfered with an officer of the United States.\u201d The charges do not mention anything about Martinez being found with a gun, which a separate DHS statement says.<\/p>\n

Relatives of Martinez told the Sun-Times on Sunday that she is OK and in federal custody, but deferred further comment to their lawyers, who couldn\u2019t immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the White House confirmed Saturday it \u201cauthorized\u201d the deployment of National Guard troops<\/a> to Illinois over opposition from Gov. JB Pritzker.<\/p>\n

Asked Sunday on CNN about the shooting, Pritzker said little was known about how it happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happens in these sorts of incidents is, typically, ICE puts out a press release before anybody else can speak with the press, and then it gets reported on social media and elsewhere,\u201d Pritkzer said. He pointed to the fatal ICE shooting of a man last month in Franklin Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first, they said that the officer had been threatened with his life. The reality of it and the truth of it has now come out, and that wasn\u2019t the case. They killed somebody. So, here, it\u2019s really hard to know exactly what the facts are. And they won\u2019t let us access the facts. They are just putting out their propaganda, and then we have got to later determine what actually happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Brandon Johnson\u2019s office has not commented on Saturday\u2019s shooting. Johnson spoke Sunday morning at an event honoring Bishop Larry D. Trotter but didn\u2019t address the shooting and left without speaking to reporters.<\/p>\n

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