Oscar Belgal, the man shot by an ICE agent in Marble Hill earlier this month, will remain in custody after a federal judge in Brooklyn denied his request for release.
In a ruling Friday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Hector Gonzalez found that the 28-year-old Dominican father of two had received adequate medical care in his two weeks detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, and that his immediate release wasn’t warranted.
The judge’s order means Belgal will remain in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention indefinitely as his immigration case and federal habeas corpus petition proceed. It comes two weeks after the Oct. 8 shooting by ICE officers on the crowded streets of Marble Hill, which seized the nation’s attention and drew widespread condemnation from New York elected officials…