On the morning of October 30, 2025, Carlos Jimenez was driving to work in Ontario, California, east of Los Angeles. He saw federal agents running an immigration operation near a bus stop where schoolchildren wait, and he approached them to let them know, Common Dreams reported.
An ICE officer, Eusebio Ortiz, shot him.
Jimenez is a U.S. citizen and a father of three. A year later, he still has bullet fragments lodged near his lung. On Friday, November 6, 2026, he sued the United States, San Bernardino County, Ortiz, two Customs and Border Protection officers, an FBI agent and 20 unnamed others, seeking more than $25 million.
The government's story, and what happened to it
The Department of Homeland Security, which runs ICE, claimed Jimenez "attempted to run officers over" by "reversing directly at them without stopping." His lawyers dispute that.
It was Jimenez — not the officer who shot him — who was charged. A grand jury indicted him on a charge of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Those charges have since been dropped.
Jimenez's lawsuit calls the charges "fabricated," and it explains why, according to the Guardian's reading of the complaint as quoted by Common Dreams. The suit says the FBI claimed two neighbors had witnessed the shooting and told an agent that Jimenez's car had room to pull forward instead of backing up. When Jimenez's lawyers found those two neighbors, the complaint says, both denied saying it — and said they hadn't even known there had been a shooting until they saw it in the news.
The Justice Department's answer was that Jimenez "could have exercised his right to take the case to trial, but he instead requested that our office agree to resolve the case through a diversion agreement." The FBI declined to comment.
Pulled from a hospital bed, bleeding
What the complaint says happened after the shooting is worse.
At the hospital, according to the lawsuit, FBI agents "interfered with his medical care." They kept him from talking to his doctors and nurses, took him out of his hospital bed, and "handcuffed him with a leather waist restraint."
Then, the complaint says, they drove him back to the scene for an interrogation "while the bullet and fragments remained lodged in his body." He "kept bleeding and vomiting in the agents' van" — and the agents told him not to "ruin their vehicle." He was taken to the West Valley Detention Center, where, the suit says, he was again denied proper medical care.
These are allegations in a lawsuit, and the government will get to answer them in court. But the core facts aren't in dispute: an American citizen was shot by an immigration officer, he was the one who got charged, and the charges were dropped.
He isn't the only one
Jimenez is one of at least 32 people federal immigration agents have fired on during President Trump's mass detention and deportation campaign, according to Common Dreams. Among them are Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both U.S. citizens killed in Minneapolis early this year.
Pretti was an intensive-care nurse at the VA. Border Patrol agents fired at least ten shots at him in about five seconds while he filmed an immigration operation. Good's family sued the government in October.
ICE's operations are paid for by Congress. In June, Senate Republicans passed a bill handing ICE and the Border Patrol nearly $70 billion more — Roger Marshall voted yes, three months after saying "nothing has changed in how ICE operates".
The short version
An ICE officer shot Carlos Jimenez, a U.S. citizen who had approached agents to tell them they were working beside a school bus stop. The government said he tried to run agents over, charged him with assault, and later dropped the charges. His $25 million lawsuit says FBI agents took him out of his hospital bed and drove him, still bleeding, to an interrogation, and claimed witness statements that the witnesses say they never made. He is one of at least 32 people federal immigration agents have fired on during the deportation campaign.
Source
This post is based on reporting by Common Dreams.
