Anne Arundel County police say one injured man "was already in custody in an ICE vehicle"
Anne Arundel County Police DepartmentCounty police agency investigating the shooting
The department clarified its earlier preliminary information, saying one injured ICE detainee "was already in custody in an ICE vehicle" and the other injured person was struck by gunfire "while operating a separate vehicle".
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One of the two men injured on December 24 was already in custody in an ICE vehicle when he was hurt, and the other was struck by gunfire while operating a separate vehicle.
“To clarify preliminary information released publicly on the shooting involving ICE agents in Glen Burnie, Maryland, on December 24, 2025: one ICE detainee who was injured during the incident was already in custody in an ICE vehicle, and the other individual injured was struck by gunfire while operating a separate vehicle.”
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Was ICE justified in shooting Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins in Glen Burnie, Maryland?
On December 24, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stopped a white work van driven by Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins in Glen Burnie, Maryland, and fired at it, wounding him. The Department of Homeland Security said that day that he refused to turn off the engine, rammed ICE vehicles and drove directly at officers, and that they fired defensively; it also said a passenger in his van was injured. On January 8, 2026, Anne Arundel County police said the injured passenger was already in custody in an ICE vehicle, and DHS then said he was in one of the ICE vehicles. An FBI affidavit says two ICE officers fired, one about one to two shots and the other multiple shots, and attributes to them accounts that the van moved toward officers at speed and that one believed he would be struck, while Sousa-Martins told the FBI he drove away because he believed he would be shot. He pleaded guilty on April 27 to destroying government property, and a count of resisting or interfering with federal officers was dismissed. The dispute is whether the officers' decision to fire was warranted by the threat they faced, and whether DHS's account of the encounter was accurate.
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The department's clarification of the preliminary information it released on December 24. The page shows no posting date. News outlets reported the statement on the evening of January 8, 2026.
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Reports the January 8 police statement and prints DHS's response in full. The page was posted on January 8 and updated on January 12. Other outlets reported the DHS response on January 9.
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Reports the county police statement of January 8 and reactions from county, state and federal officials. The reactions were made a day after an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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On December 24 the department had said ICE agents approached a white van that attempted to run agents over, and that agents then fired at it.
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The department said it continues to investigate and that its officers do not enforce immigration law or conduct immigration enforcement operations with ICE.
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Why this label?
The reference point includes DHS's account of the shooting. The department corrects one element of that account, where the injured passenger was, without saying whether the shooting was warranted, so it disputes a description rather than condemning or defending the shooting.
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