Feds charge woman shot by Border Patrol [View all]
By Kaitlin Washburn, Jon Seidel, Violet Miller and Kade Heather
Oct 5, 2025, 12:22pm EDT
... The charges filed Sunday morning accuse Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Sontos Ruiz, 21, of driving vehicles in a civilian “convoy” that was following federal agents driving as part of a security detail for a Customs and Border Protection operation ...
When the agents’ vehicle got to around 39th Street and Kedzie Avenue, civilian vehicles boxed them in, and Martinez drove her vehicle up along the driver’s side of one of the agent’s vehicles, according to the charges. That’s when Martinez’s vehicle sideswiped the federal vehicle, and Ruiz’s vehicle struck the rear-right end of the federal vehicle, the charges state.
Agents then got out of the vehicle, as Martinez then drove toward one of those agents, according to the charges. The agent then fired “approximately five shots from his service weapon at the driver of the Martinez vehicle,” the charges state. Martinez continued driving north on Kedzie, the charges state.
After the shooting, Ruiz backed up his car and drove to a gas station, where authorities arrested him, according to the charges. Paramedics found Martinez at a repair shop near 35th Street and California Avenue, about a mile northwest of from where the shooting happened, and she was treated at a hospital for “gunshot wounds,” the charges state ...
... The charges do not mention anything about Martinez being found with a gun ...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/05/border-patrol-shooting-brighton-park-marimar-martinez
New ICE rules: When involved in a traffic accident, shoot the other driver and charge them with a felony
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