U.S. Border Patrol agents shot a woman in Chicago Saturday after an angry mob apparently tried to attack the law enforcement officers.

The gunfire erupted after a group of agents were “rammed in by 10 cars” and “boxed in” while patrolling the city’s South Side, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told the Chicago Sun-Times.

The agents fired “defensive shots,” then discovered the woman, who was driving in a vehicle, “was armed with a semi-automatic weapon,” McLaughlin told the outlet.

Border Patrol Federal Agents and police keep watch as people protest outside an ICE facility in Chicago on October 3, 2025. REUTERS

Demonstrators confront police during a protest outside an immigrant processing and detention center in Broadview, Illinois on October 3, 2025. Gett

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