ICE agent shoots two unarmed brothers while executing deportation order

A federal ICE agent shot two unarmed men — one in the face — while trying to nab an undocumented immigrant in Brooklyn Thursday, officials and witnesses said.

Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, armed with a deportation order, were escorting a man from a home on W. 12th St. near Quentin Road in Gravesend about 8:15 a.m. when the shooting occurred.

When the man’s brother tried to intervene, a shot was fired, officials said. The bullet went through the brother’s hand into his sibling’s cheek, sources said.

During the chaos, the man shot in the face ran back into the home and barricaded himself inside but later surrendered, sources said.

A video viewed by the Daily News shows one victim struggling with the two agents, cursing at them in Spanish, when an agent wearing a light grey hoodie and a hat zaps him with a Taser as he’s propped against a car.

A second later the shot was fired, witnesses said. A law enforcement source said both wounded men were unarmed but the man shot in the hand was holding something when he was shot.

“We saw people in the street, trying to get him handcuffed,” said a witness who wished not to be named. “There were a lot of people involved. The next thing I know there was this big bang.”

“I heard a shot and I ran,” she added. “I didn’t know if more shots were coming.”

Once everyone took cover, the woman’s daughter looked up and saw the agents giving medical aid to one of the wounded men.

“The person was lying on the floor with a towel on his head, bleeding profusely,” she said.

The man ICE agents were looking for was stopped by the NYPD for driving around with a forged Connecticut licence plate earlier in the week, sources said. ICE heard of the incident and began taking steps to deport him.

The undocumented immigrant was the subject of a domestic violence investigation in 2016 but hadn’t been on the police’s radar until he was pulled over with the forged license plate, sources said.

One of the victims was rushed to Maimonides Hospital in serious condition and is expected to survive, officials said. It was not immediately clear if the other sibling was treated at the scene or needed further medical care.

An email and a call to the Department of Homeland Security for comment were not immediately returned.