{"id":2058,"date":"2026-01-15T02:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:48:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:48:39","slug":"ice-agent-shoots-venezuelan-national-in-minneapolis-after-shovel-attack-during-ambush-dhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/ice-agent-shoots-venezuelan-national-in-minneapolis-after-shovel-attack-during-ambush-dhs\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE agent shoots Venezuelan national in Minneapolis after shovel attack during ambush: DHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/ice-agent-shoots-venezuelan-national-minneapolis-shovel-attack-ambush-dhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/new-ice-involved-shooting-minneapolis-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE agent shoots Venezuelan national in Minneapolis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">A shooting involving an ICE agent unfolded in Minneapolis late Wednesday after a suspect allegedly assaulted a federal officer with a shovel, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is in the hospital after being ambushed during an attempt to arrest a Venezuelan national in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, according to the Department of Homeland Security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The agent was ambushed by two people while attempting to conduct a traffic stop on an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, DHS said, adding that the agent fired his gun during the alleged attack because he was &#8220;fearing for his life and safety.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">One Venezuelan suspect was shot, but is reported to be stable and is now in custody, DHS said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Source: <em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/ice-agent-shoots-venezuelan-national-minneapolis-shovel-attack-ambush-dhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICE agent shoots Venezuelan national in Minneapolis after shovel attack during ambush: DHS<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shooting involving an ICE agent unfolded in Minneapolis late Wednesday after a suspect allegedly assaulted a federal officer with a shovel, authorities said. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is in the hospital after being ambushed during an attempt to arrest a Venezuelan national in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-opinion","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}