2026年2月21日 / 美国东部时间下午6:14 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
得克萨斯州一名民主党议员正在援引一项新创建的州立法规则，要求就2025年3月一名23岁美国公民被美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）特工枪杀一事举行公开听证会。这一案件引发了关于执行特朗普总统驱逐政策官员的透明度和监督问题的进一步讨论。
拟议的听证会将调查2025年3月15日发生在得克萨斯州南帕德里岛的鲁本·雷·马丁内斯（Ruben Ray Martinez）枪击死亡事件。尽管当时已报道了他的死亡，但ICE参与此次枪击的情况直到本周才披露，距离枪击发生已超过11个月。
得克萨斯州众议院国土安全、公共安全和退伍军人事务委员会副主席、民主党州议员雷·洛佩兹（Ray Lopez）表示，他正式行使了得克萨斯州众议院规则第4条第6A款规定的权力，要求委员会主席、共和党人科尔·赫夫纳（Cole Hefner）安排关于马丁内斯死亡事件的听证会。
一张未注明日期的鲁本·雷·马丁内斯照片，他于2025年3月15日在得克萨斯州南帕德里岛被美国移民与海关执法局特工枪杀。（Rachel Reyes 提供）
洛佩兹称，这是该条款的首次公开使用。该条款是在去年6月结束的第89届立法会议期间通过的，要求委员会主席“立即安排”副主席指定的听证会。洛佩兹要求赫夫纳在2月23日工作日结束前书面回应，目前尚不清楚听证会何时会安排。
得克萨斯州当地新闻媒体去年报道了马丁内斯被枪杀的事件，但联邦移民特工参与致命枪击的情况直到本周才由《新闻周刊》首次披露。该媒体利用美国监督项目（American Oversight Project）这一非营利性道德监督组织最近发布的政府文件，将这起死亡事件与ICE内部报告联系起来。
ICE内部报告隐去了马丁内斯的姓名，称3月15日的事件涉及国土安全调查局（HSI，ICE下属部门）的特工，他们在一场重大车祸后的深夜协助南帕德里岛警察控制交通。
报告描述，一辆蓝色福特车接近ICE特工指挥交通的区域，司机“未遵循指示”并试图继续行驶。在特工发出指令后，车辆“减速停下”。特工包围车辆并要求司机下车，报告称。
随后司机“加速向前”并撞上一名ICE特工，报告称该联邦官员“最终被甩到了车盖上”。此时，另一名ICE特工通过打开的侧窗向司机“连开数枪”。司机被给予急救后转移至布朗斯维尔医院，报告称他在那里被宣布死亡。
报告还指出，车内一名同样为美国公民的乘客（姓名被隐去）被南帕德里岛警方当场拘留。
ICE在报告中称，被车辆撞倒的特工膝盖受伤，被送往当地医院治疗后出院。
监督ICE的美国国土安全部（DHS）在向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻提供的声明中证实了这起致命枪击事件，称司机“故意撞倒一名国土安全调查局特别探员，导致其被甩到车盖上。在目睹此情况后，另一名特工开枪自卫，以保护自己、同事和公众。”
DHS表示，该事件由得克萨斯州公共安全部游骑兵分部调查，并将问题转交给了得克萨斯州DPS。
得克萨斯州DPS发言人克里斯托弗·奥利瓦雷斯（Christopher Olivarez）周六向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻证实调查正在进行中，并补充道：“我们没有更多信息可以提供。”
洛佩兹认为，联邦和州当局近一年来未公开披露ICE参与枪击事件的情况，马丁内斯的家人是通过新闻报道才得知联邦特工的角色。
“当任何层级的执法部门（联邦、州或地方）的权威人士决定采取最极端的措施——即结束某人的生命时，必须确保这是最后手段，”洛佩兹周六接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时表示，“我认为我所读到的信息并未表明这是最后手段，我希望查明真相。”
马丁内斯的母亲雷切尔·雷耶斯（Rachel Reyes）在向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的声明中表示，她的家人一直在寻求问责。
“自鲁本一年前去世以来，我们唯一想要的就是为他讨回公道，而对他被杀事件的沉默让我们倍感痛苦，”雷耶斯说，“现在国家正处于危机之中——不幸的是，其他家庭也在经历我们所承受的一切……我希望现在对鲁本之死的关注能帮助为他带来我们想要的正义和一直缺失的答案。”
鲁本家人的律师查尔斯·M·斯塔姆（Charles M. Stam）和亚历克斯·斯塔姆（Alex Stamm）在声明中表示：“近一年来，鲁本的家人一直在寻求透明度和问责，他们将继续坚持下去，直到获得结果。关键在于要对为何国土安全调查局会出现在交通事故现场，以及为何一名联邦官员在一名美国公民试图遵守当地执法人员指挥交通的指令时将其枪杀进行全面公正的调查。”
雷耶斯向美联社透露，她的儿子在前往南帕德里岛庆祝的周末旅行前23天刚满23岁。南帕德里岛位于墨西哥湾沿岸靠近美墨边境处，是一个热门的春假目的地，吸引了数千名大学生游客。
雷耶斯告诉美联社，她的儿子在亚马逊仓库工作，喜欢玩电子游戏和与朋友相聚，此前从未有过任何执法部门接触记录。
“他是个典型的年轻人，”雷耶斯说，“他从未有机会真正外出体验生活，这是他第一次离开家乡。他是个好人，很谦逊，一点也不暴力。”
马丁内斯之死是过去一年中几起涉及联邦移民特工枪杀美国公民事件之一。今年1月在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市，蕾妮·古德（Renee Good）和亚历克斯·普雷蒂（Alex Pretti）在抗议该市大规模移民行动的过程中被枪杀。上周，特朗普政府宣布将结束在明尼苏达州的大规模移民执法行动。
近几个月来，移民执法已成为一个突出的政治问题，尤其是在得克萨斯州等边境州，联邦和州当局经常在此协调行动。得克萨斯州将于3月3日举行初选，移民行动已成为关键竞选中的突出议题。
（注：本文内容严格按照原文排版和信息完整性翻译，未遗漏任何数据、观点或细节。）
Records show ICE agent fatally shot U.S. citizen nearly a year ago in Texas, as lawmaker seeks public hearing
February 21, 2026 / 6:14 PM EST / CBS News
A Texas Democratic lawmaker is invoking a newly created state legislative rule to force a public hearing into the March 2025 fatal shooting of a 23-year-old U.S. citizen by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, a case raising further transparency and oversight questions about the officials enforcing President Trump’s deportation crackdown.
The proposed hearing would examine the shooting death of Ruben Ray Martinez in South Padre Island, Texas, on March 15, 2025. While his death was reported at the time, ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week, over 11 months after the shooting.
Democratic Texas state Rep. Ray Lopez, who serves as vice chair of the Texas House Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety and Veterans’ Affairs, said he formally exercised authority under Rule 4, Section 6A of the Texas House Rules to compel Committee Chairman Cole Hefner, a Republican, to schedule a hearing on Martinez’s death.
An undated photo of Ruben Ray Martinez, who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on March 15, 2025, in South Padre Island, Texas. Rachel Reyes
Lopez said it is the first public use of the provision, which was adopted during the 89th Legislative Session that concluded last June. The rule requires a committee chair to “promptly schedule” a hearing designated by the vice chair. Lopez requested a written response from Hefner by the end of business on Feb. 23. It was not immediately clear when a hearing might be scheduled.
Local news outlets in Texas reported on Martinez’ killing last year, but the involvement of federal immigration agents in the fatal shooting was first revealed earlier this week by Newsweek, which used government documents recently released by the American Oversight Project, a nonprofit ethics watchdog, to connect the death with an internal ICE report.
The internal ICE report, which redacts Martinez’s name, stated that the March 15 incident involved agents from Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of ICE, who were helping South Padre Island police officers control traffic in the late night hours following a major car accident.
The report describes a blue Ford approaching the area where the ICE agents were directing traffic. The driver of the vehicle “failed to follow instructions,” the internal report reads, and tried to continue driving. After commands from the agents, the report said the vehicle “slowed to a stop.” The agents surrounded the car and directed the driver to exit the vehicle, the report said.
The driver then “accelerated forward” and struck one of the ICE agents, according to the report, which said the federal officer “wound up on the hood of the vehicle.” At that point, according to the report, another ICE agent fired “multiple rounds” at the driver through an open side window. The driver was given first aid and then transferred to a hospital in Brownsville, where the report said he was pronounced dead.
A passenger who was in the vehicle, also a U.S. citizen whose name was redacted, was taken into custody at the scene by South Padre Island police, the report states.
The agent who was struck by the vehicle was taken to an area hospital with a knee injury, where they were treated and released, ICE said in its report.
In a statement provided to CBS News, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, confirmed the fatal shooting, alleging that the driver “intentionally ran over a Homeland Security Investigation special agent resulting in him being on the hood of the vehicle. Upon witnessing this, another agent fired defensive shots to protect himself, his fellow agents, and the general public.”
DHS said the incident is under investigation by the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Ranger Division, and deferred questions to Texas DPS.
Christopher Olivarez, a Texas DPS spokesperson, confirmed to CBS News Saturday that an investigation was underway, adding, “We have no further information to provide.”
Lopez argued that federal and state authorities failed to publicly disclose ICE’s involvement in the shooting for nearly a year. He said Martinez’s family learned of the federal agent’s role through news reports.
“When anyone in authority in any level of policing, federal, state, or local, decides to take the most drastic measure and that’s ending someone’s life, you need to be sure that you’re doing it as a last resort,” Lopez told CBS News in an interview Saturday. “I don’t feel that the information that I’ve read implies to me that it was a last resort and I want to get to the bottom of it.”
In a statement to CBS News, Martinez’s mother, Rachel Reyes, said her family has been looking for accountability.
“Since Ruben’s death a year ago, all we have wanted is justice for him and we have struggled with the silence surrounding his killing,” Reyes said. “Now, the country is in crisis — and, terribly, heartbreakingly, other families are enduring what we have…It’s my hope that attention being raised now into Ruben’s death will help bring the justice we want for him and the answers we haven’t had.”
Charles M. Stam and Alex Stamm, attorneys for Ruben’s family, said in a statement that “Ruben’s family has been pursuing transparency and accountability for nearly a year now and will continue to do so for as long as it takes. It is critical that there is a full and fair investigation into why HSI was present at the scene of a traffic collision and why a federal officer shot and killed a US citizen as he was trying to comply with instructions from the local law enforcement officers directing traffic.”
Reyes told The Associated Press that her son had just turned 23 days before he and his best friend drove from San Antonio to South Padre Island for a weekend trip to celebrate. South Padre Island, located along the Gulf Coast near the U.S.-Mexican border, is a popular spring break destination that draws thousands of college-aged visitors.
Reyes told the AP that her son worked at an Amazon warehouse, enjoyed playing video games and spending time with friends, and had never previously had any run-ins with law enforcement.
“He was a typical young guy,” Reyes said. “He never really got a chance to go out and experience things. It was his first time getting to go out of town. He was a nice guy, humble guy. And he wasn’t a violent person at all.”
Martinez’s death is one of several fatal shootings of U.S. citizens involving federal immigration agents over the past year. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, in January, Renee Good and Alex Pretti were fatally shot in separate incidents while protesting a massive immigration operation in that city. Last week, the Trump administration announced it would end its large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota.
Immigration enforcement has become a salient political issue in recent months, particularly in border states like Texas, where federal and state authorities frequently coordinate operations. Texas will hold its primary elections on March 3, and immigration operations have become prominent issues on the campaign trail in key races.
