A retired federal agent rehired by ICE as part of Kristi Noem’s mass recruitment push accidentally discharged his gun in a hotel room, firing one round through the wall that came to rest in the headboard of the bed in the room next door.
Bradley Shaver, 53, an Ohio-based Border Patrol veteran who retired in 2023, was one of around 3,000 federal agents deployed to Minnesota under Operation Metro Surge, and had been staying at the Hampton Inn in Eagan.
According to a police report reviewed by Sahan Journal, on the evening of Dec. 18, Shaver had been holding his Glock 19 aimed toward his own body as he worked to pry off its backstrap—a grip piece on the rear of the handle—when the weapon fired.
The bullet tore through his sweatshirt pocket, punched through the wall, and lodged in the headboard of the room next door, at roughly stomach height…