Phoenix, Arizona – A vehicle stop in north Phoenix, Arizona, ended with a Honduran migrant being hospitalized with gunshot wounds after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents opened fire.
Jose Garcia-Sorto was pulled over on a highway in north Phoenix at about 4 AM PT on Wednesday morning. After initially stopping for the police, he drove off when it became clear that the approaching officers were from ICE.
ICE agents then reportedly opened fire on the vehicle as it pulled away, claiming that the car was about to hit an officer.
“As the vehicle abruptly began speeding away, an officer was in the path of the vehicle,” Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe said in a statement emailed to AZ Central…