No indictment in Texas federal immigration agent shooting case
A Cameron County grand jury declined to indict a Homeland Security Investigations agent in the March 2025 fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez during a traffic encounter in South Padre Island, Texas. DHS says Martinez intentionally ran over an agent, prompting defensive gunfire, but a key witness, passenger Joshua Orta, disputed the account in a draft affidavit and died in a car crash last weekend. The shooting would be the earliest of at least six deadly shootings by federal officers since a nationwide immigration crackdown began.