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Get you up to speed: ICE agent shoots man in car with five-year-old child in New York: Mayor
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot a man in his car in the Marble Hill neighbourhood of New York City, while a five-year-old child was also present but unharmed. The man is conscious and receiving medical treatment, with the Department of Homeland Security stating that the incident is under investigation.
The Department of Homeland Security reported that the targeted enforcement operation occurred at approximately 4pm in the Bronx. The incident is currently under investigation by local authorities, and the injured man is receiving medical treatment while remaining conscious.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has called for an end to all ICE enforcement actions in New York City following the shooting incident, labelling it an “unconscionable” situation. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the incident remains under investigation as protests continue to grow in response to ICE’s actions.
What remains unclear — The specific circumstances that led to the shooting by the ICE agent are not fully detailed.
ICE agent shoots man in car with child present in New York, says mayor
News|Civil RightsICE agent shoots man in car with five-year-old child in New York: Mayor
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says agents fired at a car with a child inside; DHS says the man was an arrest target.
Published On 9 Oct 20269 Oct 2026
Published On 9 Oct 20269 Oct 2026An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has shot a man in the Marble Hill neighbourhood of New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said, calling the incident an “unconscionable and incredibly serious situation”.
In a statement he published on X, Mamdani said early reports on Thursday indicated agents surrounded the man and a five-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds.
The child was believed to be physically unharmed, he added.
Mamdani said he had called President Donald Trump and would demand that he end all ICE enforcement actions in the city. “I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities,” he said.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said ICE officers were conducting a “targeted enforcement operation” in the Bronx at about 4pm to arrest a man it described as a Dominican national with a criminal conviction.
It said an officer “discharged his weapon” and the man was injured.
DHS said the incident remains under investigation.
According to a statement by the New York Police Department, the man remains conscious and is receiving medical treatment at a nearby hospital.
Protesters march from the scene of the shooting to a nearby hospital after an ICE officer shot a man in New York City on October 8, 2026 [Sarah Yenesel/EPA]
ICE under scrutiny
The shooting comes after months of mounting criticism of the agency.
In January, federal immigration agents shot dead two US citizens in Minneapolis: Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, killed by an ICE agent on January 7, and Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, shot by a US border agent.
After Good’s killing, Trump officials labelled her a “domestic terrorist” even as video of the shooting cast doubt on claims she had tried to run over an agent.
The federal government removed local authorities from the investigation, rejected calls for a civil rights probe, and sent hundreds more agents to Minnesota, bringing the total to 3,000, as protests spread to hundreds of US cities.
Trump blamed the shift in American opinion about the immigration agency on unfair media coverage, urging DHS and ICE to publicise the “violent criminals” they arrest.
ICE has been tasked with a target of one million deportations a year.
The agency doubled in size to more than 22,000 agents by January and is now the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency, with about $75bn allocated to it over four years under a tax bill Trump signed last year.
Protesters scuffle with police near the scene of the shooting of a man by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in New York on October 8, 2026 [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]
October 12, 2024
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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