Immigration Agent Opens Fire On Driver In LA County: Reports

Federal agents were involved in a shooting during an immigration enforcement operation in the southern Los Angeles County community of Willowbrook, according to authorities.

A spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said the U.S. Border Patrol or Department of Homeland Security was involved in the shooting, in which an agent opened fire near the intersection of 126th Street and Mona Boulevard, just north of Compton, ABC 7 reported.

There was a brief pursuit connected to the operation that ended in a crash.

According to a Department of Homeland Security spokesman, DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a "targeted operation" around 7:05 a.m. "to arrest a violent criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, William Eduardo Moran Carballo, who is involved in a human smuggling operation and has two prior arrests for inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant."

According to DHS, an immigration judge issued a final order of removal for Carballo in 2019.

"In a dangerous attempt to evade arrest, this criminal illegal alien weaponized his vehicle and rammed law enforcement," the DHS spokesman alleged. "Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired defensive shots. The criminal illegal alien was not hit and attempted to flee on foot. He was successfully apprehended by law enforcement. The illegal alien was not injured, but a Customs and Border Protection officer was injured."

The spokesman did not disclose the nature of that agent's injuries.

Federal authorities have made similar allegations of people ramming their vehicles into agents or their vehicles in recent months. In the fall, a prominent Los Angeles TikTok creator was charged with assault on a federal officer after he was arrested during a confrontation with immigration agents.

Renee Good — the woman fatally shot by an Immigrations and Custom Enforcement officer in Minneapolis earlier this month — is accused by federal officials of ramming the officer with her car before the shooting.

Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and CHP officers blocked off the shooting scene around a white sedan with front-end damage, a busted windshield and airbags deployed. All CHP officers left the scene by 8:30 a.m.

City News Service contributed to this report.