Shots were fired at federal agents during immigration enforcement on Saturday in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, the Department of Homeland Security said.
Cell phone video taken at around noon showed federal agents clashing with neighbors and what appears to be tear gas being deployed. Video showed Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino on the scene, holding what appears to be a canister of tear gas.
Authorities said the incident began near South Sawyer Avenue & West 26th Street. Border Patrol agents were conducting enforcement operations when DHS said a man driving in a black Jeep fired shots at them and took off.
DHS in a statement said “an unknown number of agitators also threw a paint can and bricks at border patrol’s vehicles. Chicago Police Department was called for assistance and cleared the scene. The shooter and vehicle remain at large, and this is a dynamic situation.”
The incident later spilled over to West 23rd Street and Sawyer Avenue. Chicago police officers could be seen trying to disperse the crowd. Neighbors said they heard the commotion and went outside to check and saw federal agents walking a young girl in the alley.
One woman who didn’t want to show her face on camera said agents were trying to get a hold of the girl’s family.
“I just stood in front of the little girl,” one neighbor said. “I wrapped my hands around her, I grabbed onto the fence and I just stayed there and kept telling the agents they couldn’t grab her, she’s a minor. She doesn’t have an adult with her. I don’t know her, I’m just her neighbor.”
The girl’s family told Telemundo Chicago that federal agents were looking for her father. The girl’s grandmother and another neighbor said, at one point, they tried to search their building.
“They tried to come into my house…trying to say I was hiding someone, which there was no one in my house but my kids, and they insisted,” the neighbor said. “They got scared once I told them show me your warrant, show me your face. Why masks?”
The girl’s grandmother said her son is believed to be at the center of the investigation. He told her he was on his way to her house when the incident unfolded with federal agents and ended in the alley.
“He said he didn’t do nothing to them,” the grandmother said. “He’s was coming out of the alley they ram him and they shot at him.”
As of Saturday evening, DHS said they were still looking for the alleged shooter. Chicago police said they responded to a call of shots fired at federal agents to secure the area and that there were no reports of anyone being struck by gunfire.
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