Crime & Safety
Bodycam Video Shows Scene Of Border Patrol Agent's Shooting Of Chicago Woman Marimar Martinez
The three videos, each between 15 and 20 minutes long, show the scene before and after the Oct. 4 shooting.
Updated on: February 11, 2026
Bodycam videos of the moments surrounding the shooting of Marimar Martinez were released on Tuesday evening after a judge ruled they could be made public. Martinez was wounded in the shooting by a Border Patrol agent in October in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood.
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The three videos, each between 15 and 20 minutes long, show the scene before and after the Oct. 4 shooting, much of it lining up with what Martinez's attorney has maintained all along, after the federal government dropped its charges against her.
In one of the videos, the agents inside their vehicle are heard saying "we are boxed in" before their vehicle collided with another vehicle. Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum then exited the vehicle, and five shots were then heard. Video of the shooting by Exum was not shown.
