Well, it seems that ICE shot and killed a US Citizen about a year ago, but forgot to tell anyone. Numerous people and organizations believe that there was a cover-up of the incident.
When almost everything that comes out of the mouth of an ICE spokesperson is a lie, it is very difficult to believe anything they say is true. When they executed Pretti, it was an execution in my opinion. When there are five of you and the person is on the ground face down, and you shoot him in the back, that is an execution in my book. Do I believe my eyes are what they say, my eyes? There were numerous videos that showed what happened.
We can add the name of another person, a US Citizen, to the number of people killed by Trump’s goons. Not only did they kill him, but they also kept it silent. Greg Abbott seems to be complicit, as he is in charge of the DPS and the Texas Rangers. The Texas Rangers have a history of murdering “Mexicans.”
Texas U.S. citizen was fatally shot by an immigration agent last year during a stop, new records show
The death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, would mark the earliest of at least six deadly shootings by federal officers since the start of the Trump administration’s nationwide immigration crackdown.
WASHINGTON — Newly released records show a U.S. citizen was shot and killed in Texas by a federal immigration agent last year during a late-night traffic encounter that was not publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security.
The death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, would mark the earliest of at least six deadly shootings by federal officers since the start of a nationwide immigration crackdown in President Donald Trump’s second term. On Friday, DHS said the shooting on South Padre Island last March occurred after the driver intentionally struck an agent.
The shooting involved a Homeland Security Investigations team that was conducting an immigration enforcement operation in conjunction with local police, according to documents obtained by American Oversight, a nonprofit watchdog group based in Washington.
The records are part of a tranche of heavily redacted internal documents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that the nonprofit obtained as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
Though Martinez’s death on March 15, 2025, was reported by local media outlets at the time, federal and state authorities did not disclose that the shooting involved the team from HSI. In a statement Friday, DHS said the driver who was killed “intentionally ran over a Homeland Security Investigation special agent,” resulting in another agent firing “defensive shots to protect himself, his fellow agents, and the general public.”
The department did not respond to questions about why it had made no media release or other public notification of the officer-involved shooting over the last 11 months.
Martinez’s mother, Rachel Reyes, said her son was just days past his 23rd birthday when he and his best friend drove from San Antonio down to the beach for the weekend to celebrate. South Padre Island, located on the Gulf Coast just north of the U.S.-Mexico border, is a renowned spring break destination that attracts tens of thousands of college-aged partiers each March.
Martinez worked at an Amazon warehouse, liked to play video games and hang out with friends. His mother said he had never had any prior run-ins with law enforcement.
“He was a typical young guy,” Reyes told The Associated Press. “He never really got a chance to go out and experience things. It was his first time getting to go out of town. He was a nice guy, humble guy. And he wasn’t a violent person at all.”
