Has there been any ice agent deaths related to undocumented immigrants and or us citizens?
Executive summary
A review of the reporting shows no documented case in the provided sources of an ICE agent being killed by an undocumented immigrant or by a U.S. citizen; deaths connected to ICE in recent years instead fall into two categories: civilians (both undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens) killed by ICE agents during enforcement actions, and ICE personnel who died from illness, accidents, or violence not perpetrated by the people they were policing [1] [2] [3].
1. What the records and recent reporting actually show about ICE officer fatalities
Detailed public reporting and agency-sourced compilations indicate ICE officers have died in the line of duty from causes such as COVID-19, cancer, accidental injuries and rare instances of targeted violence (for example, an agent killed by cartel members while on assignment in Mexico), but those deaths are not attributed to undocumented immigrants or U.S. citizens encountered during domestic enforcement operations; ICE’s own compilations and investigative reporting conclude that none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history as reported here [2].
2. Civilians killed in encounters with ICE agents — documented instances
Multiple outlets document that ICE agents have shot and in some cases killed civilians — including both undocumented immigrants and at least one U.S. citizen — during enforcement actions since 2015 and especially during the recent enforcement surge; reporting cites at least two high-profile fatal shootings in 2025–2026, including the September killing of Silverio Villegas‑Gonzalez, an undocumented immigrant in the Chicago area, and the January 2026 killing of Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen shot during an operation in Minneapolis, and databases and investigations show dozens of people have died in ICE custody or in confrontations with agents in 2025 alone [4] [5] [6] [1] [7] [3].
3. Shooting totals, detention deaths, and accountability questions
Aggregations by investigative outlets and nonprofit trackers report a spike in agent-involved shootings (for example, The Trace and The Guardian tally a series of shootings — 14–16 incidents with several fatalities — since the start of the recent administration’s surge) and 32 people dying in ICE custody in 2025 alone, raising questions about tactics, medical care and oversight inside detention facilities; at the same time, watchdog reporting notes that despite “more than two dozen” people killed by immigration agents over the past decade, criminal prosecutions of officers appear rare or nonexistent in the cases covered by these sources [5] [6] [1] [3].
4. What ICE and DHS say, and competing narratives
DHS and ICE statements repeatedly stress that ICE does not arrest or deport U.S. citizens and defend agent actions as lawful and often framed as self‑defense, while state and local officials, videos and independent reporting frequently dispute those official accounts and document instances where bystander and agent video contradict federal narratives; DHS has publicly pushed back against reporting it calls false, underscoring the political and institutional stakes in how incidents are reported and investigated [8] [9] [10] [7].
5. Conclusion and limits of the record
Based on the sources provided, there is no documented instance reported here of an ICE agent being killed by an undocumented immigrant or by a U.S. citizen; the recent, better‑documented fatalities involve civilians killed by ICE agents during enforcement and detainee deaths in custody, and ICE officer deaths that did occur have other causes (illness, accidents, or violence unrelated to domestic detainees) according to the reporting cited [2] [1] [3]. If there are additional incidents outside the scope of these sources, they are not covered in the material reviewed and cannot be confirmed here.