CrimeUpdated: Jul. 02, 2026, 9:42 a.m.Published: Jul. 01, 2026, 4:53 p.m.121/12FBI investigate shooting in Harrisburg: July 1, 2026By Jenna Wise | jwise@pennlive.comAn ICE agent on Wednesday fired at a car in Harrisburg when its driver, whom they were trying to arrest, crashed his car into one of the agency’s vehicles, a spokesperson said.Agents were performing a “targeted vehicle stop” before 6 a.m. in the 400 block of South 17th Street to arrest Clemente Lara-Hernandez, a Mexican citizen with a history of assault, a hit-and-run and domestic violence, according to ICE. PennLive was not immediately able to verify his criminal history.ICE said Lara-Hernandez “weaponized” his vehicle and drove into an ICE-operated vehicle.He “then dangerously drove [in] the wrong direction on a one-way street and crashed into a civilian vehicle,” the agency said in a Wednesday afternoon news release.ICE shot once at Lara-Hernandez’s vehicle during the incident. One agent sustained a cut to their hand.Lara-Hernandez sped away after the shot was fired and has not been arrested. When asked if he was injured in the shooting, an ICE spokesperson responded, “He remains at large.”The FBI is investigating the shooting, but on Wednesday refused to release details on the investigation into an ICE agent who shot at a car during an attempted arrest in Harrisburg.“The FBI responded to assist on-scene immediately following this morning’s shooting incident in Harrisburg,” the FBI said in an email. “Department of Justice policy prevents us from commenting on the nature of any investigations that may or may not be occurring.”Harrisburg Mayor Wanda Williams declined to comment on Wednesday, referring questions to city police. City Council President Danielle Hill also declined to comment.City police were uninvolved in the shooting but were dispatched to help secure the scene.Police previously confirmed an agent fired a single shot after a person they were trying to arrest “made a hostile move toward the agent.”Wednesday morning, Harrisburg police secured a portion of 17th Street from Derry to Berryhill streets with yellow tape, which included a white Lincoln parked on a sidewalk and broken vehicle glass in the middle of the street.At least four yellow cones marked evidence at the scene. Officers spent at least three hours photographing and collecting evidence before leaving around 9 a.m.Neighbors told PennLive they didn’t hear gunshots, but noticed a police car and crime scene tape when they awoke about 6 a.m. and looked outside.The shooting comes two weeks after an ICE agent fired at a suspect in New Jersey. That driver also got away.Policing experts have long discouraged shooting at moving vehicles, even when the driver rams a law enforcement vehicle or is involved in unsafe driving practices.“Usually if an officer has time to shoot, they have time to get out of the way,” Justin Nix, associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha, told PennLive in 2022. “If the officer successfully strikes the driver, now you’ve got an injured or possibly dead person operating a motor vehicle - that creates its own dangers.”Between January 2015 and May 2017, police killed nearly 200 people nationwide who were inside a moving car, according to a Washington Post database.An independent research organization that focuses on critical issues in policing, the Police Executive Research Forum, has advocated against officers shooting at moving vehicles since at least 2016.Harrisburg police in 2016 updated its policy to restrict officers from firing at moving vehicles except under very limited circumstances.Gloria Merrick, executive director of the Latino Hispanic American Community Center in Harrisburg, said the ICE activity has been quiet in Harrisburg in the last couple of months.“I think they’ve gotten a little more strategic, a little bit more focused on people who have committed crimes,” she said.A lot of the cases she’s heard about involving ICE activity were attached to crimes like domestic violence, DUIs and crashes, and fighting.Regardless, Merrick said on Wednesday that she’s sure the shooting will have a chilling effect.“It will definitely escalate concerns,” she said on Wednesday afternoon. “It has not cascaded down through the community yet.”Christine Vendel and DaniRae Renno contributed to this report.Jenna Wise is the dayside crime and public safety reporter for PennLive. After graduating from Shippensburg University with a communication/journalism degree in 2019, she covered breaking news all over New...