Newsweek: ICE Fatally Shot a U.S. Citizen Nearly a Year Before Killing Renee Good and Alex Pretti
A 23-year-old U.S. citizen, Ruben Ray Martinez, was fatally shot by an ICE agent in South Padre Island in March 2025 after he did not follow orders to exit his car, according to reports by Newsweek and the New York Times. The connection between the shooting and ICE was only publicly revealed last week. Martinez was described by his mother as a hard-working individual celebrating his birthday at the time of his death.
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 is 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.
Newsweek: ICE Fatally Shot a U.S. Citizen Nearly a Year Before Killing Renee Good and Alex Pretti
HeadlineFeb 23, 2026
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