Off-duty Border Patrol agent shot in a Manhattan park in apparent botched robbery, police say
New York – A customs agent and protection of American border on leave and borders was shot in a park in Manhattan on Saturday following an apparent flight that went wrong, said New York police and federal officials.
The 42 -year -old officer was in a stable state on Sunday and expected to survive. Nothing indicates that he had been targeted because of his job, said New York police commissioner Jessica Tisch.
The officer, who was not in uniform, was seated with a woman in a park under the bridge of George Washington when two men approached a moped just before midnight. The passenger went down and approached the officer, who realized that he was stolen and pulled his service weapon, said Tisch.
The two exchanged gunshots and the leave on leave was shot in the face and arm. The author was injured before the moped driver started, police said.
A person of interest, identified as Miguel Mora, a 21 -year -old undocumented immigrant with a wide criminal past, was arrested after his arrival in a Bronx hospital with ball injury to groin and leg, said Tisch. We didn’t know if Mora had a lawyer.
The police commissioner said Mora injuries were observed on the surveillance video of the shooting shared by the Ministry of Internal Security.
The search for his alleged accomplice continued on Sunday.
Mora illegally entered the country through Arizona in 2023 and had two previous arrests for domestic violence in New York. He was wanted in New York to cope with accusations of theft of theft and criminal assault, and in the Massachusetts on a stolen weapon affair, said Tisch.
On Sunday afternoon of social media, President Donald Trump seized the shooting as proof of the Democrats’ failures to ensure the border.
“The CBP officer courageously pushed his attacker, despite his injuries, demonstrating enormous skills and courage,” added Trump.
The shooting comes as federal officials warn against an increase in attacks on agents who make Trump’s mass expulsion program.
As the efforts to apply the law have increased in recent months, many officers have chosen to cover their face in order to avoid harassment in public and online.
On Sunday, the acting director of US Immigration and Customs Sunfing, Todd Lyons, said that he would allow agents to continue to cover their faces as a safety measure.
“If it is a tool that the men and women of ice that lend themselves to themselves and their families, then I allowed it,” said Lyons.
