2 Chicagoans charged in CBP attack, including woman who was shot
Federal prosecutors charged two Chicagoans, including a woman shot by federal agents, with ramming a vehicle driven by an U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Brighton Park on Saturday morning, sparking a heated confrontation between residents of the Southwest Side neighborhood and federal agents.
Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, are facing felony charges of “forcibly assaulting, impeding, and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer,” U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros announced Sunday.
The incident began late Saturday morning when Martinez and Ruiz, “used their vehicles to strike a vehicle” driven by a Border Patrol officer near west 39th Street and south Kedzie Avenue in Brighton Park,” according to a statement from federal prosecutors.
“After striking the agents’ vehicle, the defendants’ vehicles boxed in the agents’ vehicle, the complaint states,” according to a statement from federal prosecutors that said a total of three Border Patrol agents were in the vehicle at the time. “The agent was unable to move his vehicle and exited the car, at which point he fired approximately five shots from his service weapon at Martinez, the complaint states.”
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