Marimar Martinez
Role at the time: Person shot by Charles Exum
Condemned
Statement summary
Martinez said Exum caused the collision and shot her while she was driving away.
“The Agent swerved into me. The Agent shot me as I drove away from him.”
Read the original text (opens in a new tab)Statement of Marimar Martinez to the United States Senate Forum on Immigration Agents’ Use of ForcePages 1-4, especially pages 1 and 3
Martinez’s first-person written testimony describing the collision, shooting, hospitalization, prosecution and dismissal. It supplies her account of the disputed event and is not an independent adjudication.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
Her account directly rejects self-defense and portrays the shooting as unjustified.