Texas grand jury won't indict in 2025 fatal shooting of U.S. citizen by ICE agent

A grand jury did not find probable cause to issue an indictment in the fatal shooting of a man last year on South Padre Island by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz said his office presented the case on Wednesday and the jury issued a no bill. Prosecutors can pursue a criminal case after a no bill but rarely do so.

Agents assigned to a Department of Homeland Security subagency fatally shot 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez of San Antonio multiple times in the early hours of March 15 as they helped local police direct traffic at the scene of an auto accident, records released by American Oversight, a nonprofit government watchdog, show.

Martinez was at Padre Island that weekend celebrating his birthday with friends, said Will Miller, a spokesperson for Rachel Reyes, Martinez’s mother and their lawyers.

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