A man was shot in the face by an ICE agent while his mother’s boyfriend was being detained by agents early Thursday morning in New York City.
According to NBC New York, 26-year-old Erick Diaz arrived in the U.S. last week on a visitor visa and watched as ICE agents attempted to detain his mother’s boyfriend, Gasper Avedano-Hernandez. A witness said Diaz’s family were fighting with agents while the arrest was taking place:
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 “The whole family came out fighting against police officers when they should have been listening.”
Diaz’s brother, Kevin Yanez-Cruz, said his brother was shot in the cheek and the bullet came out through his neck.
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ICE officials say Avedano-Hernandez was deported twice from the U.S. to Mexico since 2011 and he was pulled over by the NYPD on Monday for using a forged paper license from Connecticut.
“The New York Police Department arrested Avendano-Hernandez Feb. 3 for possession of a forged instrument, a felony criminal charge. ICE attempted to lodge an immigration detainer after his most recent arrest, however, the subject was released from local custody before ICE could lodge a detainer. This forced ICE officers to locate him on the streets of New York rather than in the safe confines of a jail,”
A family representative said Diaz is currently in critical but stable condition.
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