Executions & Deaths
2025 March
2025-03-01 Although the bodycam footage wasn’t discovered until March of 2026, DPS released footage of a fatal ICE shooting on South Padre island where ICE agents shot and killed 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez. The footage contradicted what the ICE officers initially reported when they claimed the man tried to hit them with his car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf7v-UF1epY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjyRuCTu0YI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIv0jB5MWI
2025 July
2025-07-12 A California farmworker fell 30 feet and died during an ICE raid.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-farmworker-dies-immigration-raid-rcna218467
2025 September
2025-09-12 During ICE presence in Franklin Park Illinois an agent shot Silverio Villegas Gonzalez to death. DHS maintained that the suspect dragged an agent with their car, yet video footage available has not substantiated any of those claims. Onlookers took footage of agents pulling the man’s lifeless body out of a car. Some news sources stated agents were not wearing bodycams.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/16/investigate-death-of-mexican-national-during-ice-stop
https://www.reuters.com/world/ice-officer-kills-man-chicago-suburb-during-arrest-attempt-2025-09-12/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn839xqdn5po
2025-09-18 A 42-year-old man died in ICE custody, making it the fourteenth death up to this date. In-custody statistics had been difficult to obtain because nobody knew the whereabouts of their loved ones.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/22/headlines/42_year_old_man_dies_in_ice_custody_in_long_island
2025 December
2025-12-31 ICE fatally shot 43-year-old Keith Porter on New Year’s Eve. DHS alleged Porter was firing an AR 15 at ICE agents, while citizens and family reported that Porter was firing celebratory shots into the air to ring in the New Year.
https://wordinblack.com/2026/01/ice-agent-killed-black-man-los-angeles-why-no-arrest/
2026-01-04 By this date 32 people had died in ICE custody and there had been 9 officer-involved shootings that have been made public.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline
https://www.pogo.org/investigates/ice-inspections-plummeted-as-detentions-soared-in-2025
2026 January
2026-01-07 ICE fatally shot and killed a 37-year-old mother of three Renee Nicole Good, claiming she hit an ICE officer with her vehicle. Trump posted on social media that the officer was hit by the vehicle and lucky to be alive. Video shows the officer walking away from the scene unscathed and doing something on his phone immediately after killing Renee Nicole Good. The body cam footage showed her final words, “It’s okay, I’m not mad at you” while someone in the background called her a “fucking bitch”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/ice-agent-minneapolis-bodycam-footage
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/09/renee-goods-wife-releases-statement-about-ice-shooting
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/us/renee-nicole-good-minneapolis-ice-shooting-hnk
2026-01-09 The DOJ blocked Minnesota law officials from investigating the shooting of the 37-year-old mom Renee Nicole Good.
2026-01-09 News media reported that a neighbor saw federal agents removing evidence from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnvqrxl0xo
2026-01-12 Leavitt defended ICE after the Renee Nicole Good murder, “This administration will continue to stand wholeheartedly by the brave men and women of ICE, including that officer in Minneapolis who was absolutely justified in using self-defense against a lunatic who was part of a group – an organized group – to interject and to impede on law enforcement operations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khfNzAKC8Wg
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/karoline-leavitt-takes-shocking-swipe-200459362.html
SUB WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/trump-shooting-renee-good-ice.html
2026-01-13 Six prosecutors and four DOJ civil rights leaders quit after the DOJ tried to conduct a criminal investigation into Renee Nicole Good’s widowed spouse.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/doj-attorneys-resign-minneapolis-ice-shooting
https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5689158-minneapolis-ice-agent-resignation/
2026-01-23 ICE fatally shot and killed 37-year-old VA nurse Alex Pretti when he tried to help a woman surrounded by ICE. According to sources, Pretti did have a concealed carry license. DHS reported they killed Pretti because he threatened to shoot ICE agents, but several witnesses and captured video showed Pretti only holding his phone. Six ICE agents tackled Pretti and removed what appeared to be a gun from him, pepper sprayed him, held him face-down and then shot him several times in the back. After the shooting, DHS refused to share evidence with local investigators and blocked Minnesota law enforcement from the crime scene.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20zjyxep99o
2026-01-23 Just one hour after agents executed Alex Pretti, Pam Bondi sent a letter to Tim Walz stating the Trump administration would remove ICE from the State if Minnesota met demands to hand over voter files, SNAP data, and repealed its sanctuary policy.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/26/nx-s1-5688964/minnesota-data-bondi-letter
https://people.com/pam-bondi-full-letter-tim-walz-after-alex-pretti-shooting-11892085
2026-01-24 Stephen Miller took to social media to call Alex Pretti an assassin, then later backtracked, stating the CBP mishandled the scene and violated protocol.
https://x.com/StephenM/status/2015132322840850461
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/stephen-miller-ice-minneapolis-trump
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting
2026-01-24 Stephen Miller was implicated of encouraging DHS tactics that contributed to confrontations preceding the death of Alex Pretti.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/trump-administration-alex-pretti-shooting-statements
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/politics/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-trump
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcpe9YceyyQ
https://newrepublic.com/post/208362/stephen-miller-orders-ice-alex-pretti-death
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-shooting.html
2026-01-26 After the two public executions in Minnesota (Pretti and Good) Dan Bovino was demoted from command. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/03/17/gregory-bovino-to-retire-from-us-border-patrol-in-march
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75e24grnv3o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzXB8-019R4
2026-01-26 Despite a judicial warrant, federal agents blocked the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from accessing the scene to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.
https://time.com/7358403/nra-trump-clash-gun-carrying-rights-pretti-federal-agents/
2026-01-28 After ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, Trump drew criticism from the NRA and Gun Owners of America when he doubled down on Pretti’s murder, saying he should not have carried a firearm at the protest.
2026-01-28 Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller pointed the finger at each other for the Alex Pretti execution.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-bites-back-after-ice-barbie-blame-game/
2026 February
2026-02-03 Trump and Republican figures like Jeanine Pirro, Dan Bongino, Kristi Noem and Kash Patel admonished Alex Pretti for carrying a concealed weapon, stating nobody should be bringing guns to a protest. For context, Kash Patel tried to help Rittenhouse sue Biden and the media for character assassination even though he brought guns across state lines to a protest. In August 2020 Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old at the time, drove from Illinois to Wisconsin with an AR-15 and shot three protesters in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting. He was hailed by Conservatives as a defender of Second Amendment rights and was acquitted on all charges including first-degree intentional homicide.
https://www.aclu-wi.org/justice-jacob-blake/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_unrest_shooting
2026-02-03 JD Vance refused to apologize for amplifying claims about Alex Pretti as an assassin.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15524833/JD-Vance-refuses-apologize-Alex-Pretti.html
https://x.com/StephenM/status/2015133481261474030
2026-02-16 DHS announced it would not be sharing evidence with local Minnesota investigators on the Alex Pretti murder.
2026-02-26 ICE detained then released blind Nurul Amim Shah Alam miles away from home and didn’t notify his family. The family reported him missing and then found him dead outside in the cold.
https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/
2026 March
2026-03-02 Haitian asylum seeker Daphy Michel’s body was found in a Pittsburg bus stop where ICE had left her. Allegheny County Medical Examiners wrote, “The opinion of the forensic pathologist in this case is that Ms. Michel was a vulnerable adult, suffering from untreated severe mental health issues and a significant language barrier when she was released from federal custody on Federal 27.” It was deemed a homicide in June.
TIMESTAMP 4:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EL6rRBfTx8&list=WL&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u24qQPsQ9c
https://www.wtae.com/article/daphy-michel-haitian-asylum-seeker-death-ruled-homicide/71573343
2026-03-12 Trump accused South Africa of white genocide and invited white South Afrikaners to migrate to the US. By March many of the white South Afrikaners returned to South Africa, citing better cost of living, less racism, and less violence. One South Afrikaner stated, “People are being shot in broad daylight. American citizens are being shot and killed. I don’t want to live in a place like this”.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/11/world/trump-white-south-africans-better-life/
2026 April
2026-04-21 As of April, the death count of people in ICE custody for the first 4 months of 2026 reached at least 17.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-report-deaths-detainees-rcna340802
2026-04-29 ICE agent Jonathan Ross returned to duty after Renee Nicole Good’s killing.
https://newrepublic.com/post/209615/ice-agent-killed-renee-good-minneapolis-new-job
2026 May
2026-05-01 Another person died in ICE custody, this time a suspected suicide at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/georgia-ice-detention-death-cuban-immigrant
2026 June
2026-06-19 Sixty-three-year-old Felix Alcordo Rodriguez died in ICE custody at a Laredo Texas detention center operated by the for-profit company CoreCivic.
2026-06-24 ICE detained 85-year-old Adrian Andreas Florian and kept him for 10 months. Florian had no criminal history, but he did suffer from dementia. He died at Valley Baptist Medical Center, counting as the 21st death in ICE custody in 2026.
https://www.americansagainstice.org/p/ice-held-an-85-year-old-man-until
2026-06-26 The UN called for prompt and independent investigations into ICE detention centers due to skyrocketing deaths.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/un-deaths-immigration-custody-human-rights-law
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167816
2026 July
2026-07-07 ICE agents in Houston fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo while he was driving to work.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/07/ice-agents-shoot-motorist-texas-houston
2026-07-10 Newly released footage from the ICE killing in Houston revealed the victim was chased down and targeted, and he never assaulted ICE or attempted to run them over. It was also revealed that three witnesses were deported for speaking up, and ICE disposed of the body as a “John Doe” so the family couldn’t retrieve him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOq5gcDBBeo
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1409347791026818
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/us/lorenzo-salgado-araujo-houston-ice-shooting
2026-07-14 ICE officers killed a 26-year-old father in Maine, claiming the victim tried to hit DHS with his vehicle. Witnesses say his last words as he bled profusely from the head was, “I tried to stop”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCMqyjtMkIA&list=WL&index=4
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/13/us/live-news/maine-ice-shooting-houston-minnesota
2026-07-14 Mexico filed a criminal complaint on the US for migrant deaths in custody.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/13/mexico-criminal-complaint-migrant-ice-deaths
2026-07-14 Another man died while being detained by ICE. This time he ran and was struck by a semi-truck. The victim, Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, was here on a tourist visa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INjQHHBNXIM&list=WL&index=5
https://apnews.com/article/man-killed-semi-truck-ice-florida-8e65b1ca2eab051392afc316972c92eb
https://www.kcra.com/article/florida-man-killed-tractor-trailer-immigration-agents/71935147
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/22/man-killed-ice-florida-tourist-visa
2026-07-14 ICE suspended vehicle stops after two killings in one week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_rDjw-LWqo&list=WL&index=8
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8yrw597eo
2026-07-14 When asked why ICE agents weren’t wearing body cams, Tom Homam claimed the Democrats were to blame for blocking funding for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPZfv0mLydE&list=WL&index=7
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/us/body-cameras-ice-agents-shootings
2026-07-15 Trump pushed ICE to resume traffic stops despite deadly shootings. He wrote, “We CANNOT give up one of ICE’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!”
https://apnews.com/live/trump-administration-ice-dhs-updates-07-15-2026
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116923585931908111
2026-07-15 Tom Homan issued a threat, “I said if the hateful rhetoric didn’t stop, there will be more bloodshed. And I’m saying it right now. There’s still going to be more bloodshed, unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted”.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tom-homan-bloodshed
2026-07-16 Forty-five-year-old Jesus Manuel Arenas Silva died of a cardiac event while being transported from one ICE facility to another.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/15/man-dies-georgia-ice-detention
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/venezuelan-detainee-dies-ice-custody-during-transfer-georgia
2026-07-17 Family of the ICE agent who fatally shot Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Maine say he suffered from severe mental illness, was abusive, and should not have been given a gun or badge. One family member said to the Associated Press, “Afghanistan destroyed him, trained him to be a killing monster, a machine. They took someone who was extremely mentally ill and turned him into a killing machine”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/14/ice-shooting-maine-joan-sebastian-guerrero
2026-07-17 In a statement, the widow of Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero said, “That Monday afternoon was supposed to be her day with her dad. But he never came home, and now my daughter is asking about her father, and I don’t have the strength to tell her that he’s not coming, that she can’t hug him anymore, or say daddy I love you”. The Trump administration has not reached out to the family.
https://www.wmtw.com/article/biddeford-maine-ice-shooting-wife-of-man-killed-speaks/72715144
2026-07-20 Allegedly the Trump Administration told FBI agents that going forward they would no longer investigate ICE confrontations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUU_GASII8Y&list=WL&index=3&t=22s
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/19/ice-assault-claims-fbi.html
2026-07-20 Tom Homan told reporters, “I’m afraid that we’re going to bury an ICE agent”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_6jiz2D1ho&list=WL&index=1&t=10s
2026-07-24 Dozens of businesses in Houston participated in an economic boycott demanding justice for the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
https://cw39.com/news/local/houston-ice-shooting-day-action/
2026-07-24 29-year-old Prisciliano Trejo Ricano died in ICE custody after they were refused medical treatment for an aggressive form of leukemia.
https://cardinalpine.com/news/mexican-man-living-in-durham-dies-of-leukemia-in-ice-custody/
2026-07-28 A judge ordered ICE to release one of the witnesses to the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Arajo.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5995138-judge-orders-dhs-release-witness/
2026 August
2026-08-01 An El Salvador man died at Delaney Hall from seizures.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/08/death-shows-delaney-not-adequate-in-emergency-mciver-says/
2026 September
2026-09-02 In Springfield Ohio 20-year-old Haitian immigrant Pierre Damas Bel died by suicide. Family said his death was driven in part by feelings of despair and humiliation after ICE fitted him with an ankle monitor. He had just begun his freshman year at a University where he was recruited to play soccer and had plans to become a neurosurgeon.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/20-year-old-haitian-immigrant-ice-crackdown/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/02/us/pierre-damas-bel-death-ankle-monitor