Trump and Mamdani Held a Two-Hour Call After the NYC ICE Shooting. It Ended in a Split.

*Updated 04:16 UTC. This is a developing story; details may change as officials confirm them.*

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent about two hours on the phone with President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Thursday night, trying to negotiate the release of a man shot by ICE officers hours earlier in Manhattan. The effort failed. Shortly before Mamdani faced reporters at a late-night news conference, ICE agents moved the wounded man out of a hospital in an unmarked vehicle.

The shooting happened around 4 p.m. ET Thursday in the Marble Hill neighborhood of northern Manhattan. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch identified the wounded man as Oscar Belgal, 28, a citizen of the Dominican Republic. Federal officials spelled his last name "Bengal" and gave no immediate explanation for the difference. He was shot in the neck below his left ear and taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, where officials said he was conscious and in stable condition.

A 5-year-old child, Belgal's son, was in the back seat of the car when the shots were fired, according to Mamdani. The child was physically unharmed.

Accounts of the encounter differ. Tisch said the officers wore construction vests and masks that concealed their faces. "There was no reasonable way to identify them as ICE agents," Mamdani said. Tisch said residential police cameras showed Belgal parallel parking his gray Honda before officers approached with a gun drawn. By the time NYPD officers arrived, she said, Belgal was handcuffed and sitting on the ground.

Federal officials described the encounter differently. Marcos Charles, acting head of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations, said officers had used their vehicles to block Belgal during the attempted arrest. "He then accelerated his vehicle, smashing into two of our government ICE vehicles and then weaponized his vehicle and proceeded to accelerate going towards other officers," Charles said. Fearing for their own safety, the officers "used their training" and opened fire, he said. The Department of Homeland Security said Belgal had a prior grand larceny conviction, prior arrests, and alleged ties to the Trinitarios gang. No video of the shooting has been made public, though Mullin said the agents wore body cameras and that footage exists.

On the call, Mamdani said: "For the past two hours, I've been on the phone with President Trump and Secretary Mullin negotiating the release of the man ICE agents shot. Those negotiations were unsuccessful." He called the shooting "unconscionable and incredibly serious" and demanded that the Trump administration halt all ICE enforcement actions in New York City. "ICE is rotten to its core," he said.

Mullin answered on Friday. He accused Mamdani of incitement and criticized the city's sanctuary policies. He said Trump had been willing to release Belgal to NYPD custody if the city pursued charges. "The mayor once again said, 'We will not be detaining him,'" Mullin said. "He wanted us to walk away and allow this dangerous criminal back on to the streets."

Gov. Kathy Hochul said she also spoke with Trump and Mullin on Thursday night, urging them to halt ICE operations in New York and to release any body camera footage. According to USA Today, Belgal's lawyers could not locate him for hours after the shooting.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the hospital Thursday night. Shoving matches broke out with NYPD officers and some demonstrators were handcuffed, according to witnesses and video from the scene. What the federal government does next, and where Belgal is now, had not been publicly confirmed as of Friday morning.