Man shot in car by ICE agents in New York: officials

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have shot and wounded a man in his car with a child present in the Bronx borough of New York, according to the mayor, police and eyewitnesses.

"Early reports indicate agents surrounded (the man) and a five-year-old-child in his car before firing multiple rounds," New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement.

The mayor said the child was believed to have been physically unharmed. He referred to the man shot as a "New Yorker."

"This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation," Mamdani said, adding he had called US President Donald Trump to talk about the incident. "When we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorise our communities."

The Department of Homeland Security, ICE's parent agency, said in a statement ICE officers were conducting a "targeted enforcement operation" in the Bronx to arrest a man from the Dominican Republic with a prior criminal conviction.

"During the incident, an ICE officer discharged his weapon and the criminal illegal alien was injured," DHS said, adding that ICE officers rendered immediate aid. "The individual is alive and at a local hospital."

The incident was first reported on X by the New York Police Department, which said the shooting occurred in the Marble Hill neighbourhood of the Bronx.

Pedro Almarez, owner of a nearby eatery, said he was working at the restaurant when he heard shots fired and went outside to see several officers wearing ICE attire at the scene.

"There were a lot of ICE officers, three or four cars," Almarez told Reuters, adding the man who was shot appeared to be between 20 and 30 years of age.

The city police department said its officers were not involved in the shooting.

At the shooting scene, where police strung yellow crime-scene tape to cordon off a city block, a woman standing on a balcony overlooking the area was heckling officers below about "taking our children," according to a Reuters witness.