Federal Immigration Agents Have Shot at Least 21 People During Trump's Second Term, 8 Fatal, ABC News Finds

ABC News reported September 25, 2026 that federal immigration agents have shot at least 21 people during Trump’s second term, with 8 fatalities, including 3 U.S. citizens. The tally includes at least 15 incidents in which agents fired shots without hitting anyone. The most recent incident in the count: an ICE officer’s shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan man making DoorDash deliveries in Austin, Texas, on September 20 (2026-09-20–ice-agent-shoots-venezuelan-delivery-driver-austin-hsi-fbi-investigate). A Wikipedia-hosted compilation of shootings by U.S. immigration agents during the term independently tracks individual incidents, providing a second running record against which the ABC tally can be checked. The underlying incidents span the whole second term to date; September 25 is the publication date of ABC’s aggregate count, not a single-day event.

The corpus already documents individual incidents within this tally at a granular level — the fatal Biddeford, Maine shooting of a 26-year-old Colombian man with no body cameras worn (2026-07-13–ice-fatal-shooting-biddeford-maine-weaponize-vehicle), and The Intercept’s documentation of four ICE deaths in a single week in July (2026-07-24–intercept-four-ice-deaths-week-salgado-araujo-hearing). This entry records the first national, cross-outlet aggregate figure — 21 shot, 8 dead, 3 U.S. citizens among the fatalities — that ties those individual incidents into a single documented pattern rather than a series of isolated local stories.