Originally published Secretary Noem Provide Updates on Shooting of CBP Officer, 2 Suspects Named on by https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/border-security/secretary-noem-provide-updates-on-shooting-of-cbp-officer-2-suspects-named/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=secretary-noem-provide-updates-on-shooting-of-cbp-officer-2-suspects-named at Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has delivered an update in New York following the July 19 shooting of an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer during what appears to have been an attempted robbery. The New York Police Department (NYPD) is actively investigating the incident. Secretary Noem is joined by federal and local law enforcement partners, including officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, CBP leadership and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division.
New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference Sunday afternoon that the video showed one of the suspected shooters, identified as 21-year-old Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, drawing a firearm and the Border Patrol agent also pulling out a handgun to defend himself, according to abc NEWS.
Secretary Kristi Noem also posted the following to X about the first suspect, Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez:
Suspect Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez is a national and citizen of the Dominican Republic.
RE ENTERED and RELEASED under Biden— on April 4, 2023 the United States Border Patrol apprehended him at/near San Luis, AZ.
This criminal has a criminal warrant in Massachusetts for… https://t.co/zHo93ENSuo pic.twitter.com/zajApb7nLh
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) July 20, 2025
Later she also posted about the second suspect’s capture by ICE, Christhian Aybar-Berroa:
The second suspect involved in the shooting of @CBP agent was caught by @ICEGov early this morning. Christhian Aybar-Berroa, is an illegal from the Dominican Republic. He entered the country illegally in 2022 under the Biden Administration and was ordered for final removed in… pic.twitter.com/8LJVxcWtwq
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) July 21, 2025
Originally published Secretary Noem Provide Updates on Shooting of CBP Officer, 2 Suspects Named on by https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/border-security/secretary-noem-provide-updates-on-shooting-of-cbp-officer-2-suspects-named/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=secretary-noem-provide-updates-on-shooting-of-cbp-officer-2-suspects-named at Homeland Security
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