A 23-year-old U.S. citizen was fatally shot by an ICE agent in South Texas nearly a year before federal immigration officers killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis as part of Trump’s immigration crackdown. But ICE’s connection to the March 2025 fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez in South Padre Island was only made public last week in reports by Newsweek and The New York Times. Martinez was reportedly shot multiple times by the ICE agent, who was unnamed, after he did not follow orders to exit his car. His mother told the Times he had been in the area to celebrate his birthday at the time he was killed. She described him as hard-working, telling the Times, “He was a good kid. … He never got in trouble.” Martinez worked at an Amazon warehouse in San Antonio.