Oscar Belgal, a 28-year-old Dominican construction worker and father, was shot in the neck by a plainclothes ICE agent in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx on October 8, 2026, while attempting to flee an arrest with his 5-year-old son in the backseat after picking the boy up from school. Surveillance footage showed masked agents in construction vests approaching with guns drawn; ICE claims Belgal's vehicle struck agents and government vehicles, which he disputes. A bystander, Iris Rosa, ran to help him and said he told her he thought he was dying; his son was unharmed. Belgal was hospitalized and later transferred to a private ICE facility in New Jersey before being booked into solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where a bullet remains lodged in his neck and his attorneys say he has received inadequate medical care. His lawyers filed a federal habeas corpus petition, later amended to allege ICE lacked a valid arrest warrant, after which a judge barred his deportation or transfer. Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the shooting an 'outrage' and said he negotiated with President Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin for Belgal's release, while Gov. Kathy Hochul demanded an accounting and Rep. Adriano Espaillat said he was blocked from visiting Belgal in the hospital. Protests occurred outside the hospital and in the neighborhood, with some clashes between police and demonstrators.