Federal Immigration Agents Shoot Two People in Portland — Mayor Demands ICE ‘End All Operations’ Until Investigation Completed

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Two people were shot and injured in Portland, Oregon Thursday afternoon in an incident “involving” federal agents, the Portland Police confirmed in a press release.

According to the statement on the department’s website, Portland Police officers responded to ” a report of a shooting” at 2:18 pm PT and the officers “confirmed that federal agents had been involved in a shooting.”

“Portland Police were not involved in the incident,” the statement noted, and added more details:

At 2:24 p.m., officers received information that a man who had been shot was calling and requesting help in the area of Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside. Officers responded and found a male and female with apparent gunshot wounds. Officers applied a tourniquet and summoned emergency medical personnel. The patients were transported to the hospital. Their conditions are unknown. Officers have determined the two people were injured in the shooting involving federal agents.

“We are still in the early stages of this incident,” said PPB Chief Bob Day. “We understand the heightened emotion and tension many are feeling in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis, but I am asking the community to remain calm as we work to learn more.” Day was referring to the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one day before this incident, of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, by an ICE agent.

The PPB released the map below showing the location of the shooting and where the individuals were located.

Image via Portland Police.

KATU, the ABC News affiliate in Portland, reported that the FBI “is responding and has opened an investigation” and that their sources had said “the agents involved are with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, not ICE.”

According to a report by The Oregonian, police sources said the two people who were shot were “believed to be a married couple,” “[o]ne was shot in the leg and the other in the chest,” and cited a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who “said agents were trying to make a traffic stop and characterized the shooting as self-defense” but “didn’t release any names.”

The Oregonian’s report added the following eyewitness account Adventist Health Portland campus where the shooting reportedly took place:

A man who was at the medical building said he saw federal officers follow a Toyota truck into the parking lot of the office building and try to corner it.

One officer pounded on the window, he said. The driver then backed up and moved forward at least a couple of times, striking a car behind him, before turning and speeding off, said the man who gave only his first name. It’s not clear if the car the truck hit belonged to the federal officers.

Officers fired about five shots at the truck as it left, the witness said.

At 3:49 pm PT, the FBI Portland office tweeted that it was “investigating an agent involved shooting” that happened at the same location identified by the Portland Police “involving Customs and Border Patrol Agents in which 2 individuals were wounded,” but shortly thereafter, the tweet was deleted. Mediaite captured a screenshot of the tweet, as shown below.

Screenshot via X.

Mediaite reached out to the FBI Portland office for comment but did not receive a reply. The @FBIPortland account has not posted since the deleted tweet; the most recent tweet is from Dec. 31, 2025.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson issued a statement to the Portland Tribune, condemning the shooting and calling on ICE to exit his city until an investigation could be completed:

“We cannot sit by while constitutional protections erode and bloodshed mounts. Portland is not a ‘training ground’ for militarized agents, and the ‘full force’ threatened by the administration has deadly consequences,” Mayor Keith Wilson said in a statement regarding the Hazelwood neighborhood shooting. “As Mayor, I call on ICE to end all operations in Portland until a full investigation can be completed.”

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield posted a statement on social media saying that he was “deeply troubled” by the reports of the shooting, and said that his office “is closely monitoring this situation and will take appropriate action to protect the rights and safety of Oregonians as more facts come to light.”

Read our statement on reports that two people were shot and injured in Portland today during an incident involving federal agents. #orpol

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— Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield (@agdanrayfield.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 7:49 PM

“We have been clear about our concerns with the excessive use of force by federal agents in Portland, and today’s incident only heightens the need for transparency and accountability,” the statement said. “Oregonians deserve clear answers when people are injured in their neighborhoods.”

Portland City Councilors Candace Avalos, Jamie Dunphy, and Loretta Smith, who represent East Portland, released a joint statement condemning the shooting as “part of a pattern of violence that we have seen too many times across our country,” and predicting that the federal authorities would “spin the story”:

ICE in our communities does not make us safe. It should be crystal clear to everyone that the real threat to community safety is the ICE agents harassing, targeting, detaining — and in some tragic cases — killing our neighbors.

This violence is unacceptable, it is criminal, and it is against the constitution of the United States.

This federal government is going to spin the story like they do every time one of their agents hurts a community member.

We saw that when they tried to send in the National Guard. It’s on all of us to keep speaking the truth, to keep on bearing witness, because our community’s voices outweigh their lies every time…

We thank our first responders for their swift response. We’re holding the two victims and their families in our hearts at this time and our offices will provide more information when it is available.

Avalos wrote an additional post stating this was a “developing situation” and they “have not confirmed that the agents who shot our neighbors were with ICE or if they were with another federal agency,” promising to “share more information as it comes.”

This is a breaking news story and has been updated.