CHICAGO — October 5, 2025 — A woman was shot and wounded by federal agents in Chicago on Saturday, just hours before President Donald Trump announced the federalization of the Illinois National Guard as part of a sweeping move to deploy troops in Democratic-led cities.
According to a criminal complaint filed Sunday in U.S. District Court, Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz are charged with assaulting federal officers after allegedly ramming a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) SUV on Chicago’s Southwest Side around 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
Federal investigators say Martinez and Ruiz boxed in and struck the CBP vehicle near 39th Place and South Kedzie Avenue, prompting agents to exit their vehicle. Martinez then allegedly accelerated toward one of the officers, who fired several rounds, hitting her.
Martinez was later found wounded at a nearby auto shop and transported to a hospital before being taken into FBI custody. No agents were seriously injured, according to DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who said the woman had been flagged in a recent intelligence bulletin for allegedly doxing agents and calling for violence online.
The Department of Homeland Security said the officers “were forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed U.S. citizen.”
The shooting came as the Trump administration escalated its deployment of federal forces across several states. On Saturday, the White House said Trump had authorized 300 Illinois National Guard members to operate under federal command, citing “violent riots and lawlessness” in Chicago.
The move drew sharp criticism from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who said on X that the “Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will.” Pritzker called the order “outrageous and un-American.”
The NPR report on the deployment noted that federalized Guard units will be used to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Federal Protective Service, and other federal officers — including CBP and Homeland Security personnel — amid ongoing protests in Chicago and Portland.
A federal judge in Oregon has already blocked Trump’s attempt to deploy National Guard troops there, though Guard members from California began arriving anyway, according to state officials.
Martinez and Ruiz face federal charges of assaulting officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon, under 18 U.S.C. §111(a) and (b). The complaint was sworn Sunday morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Heather K. McShain.
The FBI continues to investigate the Chicago shooting. DHS officials said the incident marked the second attack on federal agents in as many days and reflects a “growing trend” of vehicles being used as weapons against law enforcement.
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