ICE agent driving vehicle that struck and injured Houston man is placed on administrative leave

The ICE officer accused of running over an immigrant in Houston on Saturday has been put on administrative leave while the incident is investigated, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News. As NBC News has reported, a senior DHS official said that multiple ICE officers on the scene at the time were wearing body cameras and that ICE is reviewing video of the scene as part of an internal investigation. The DHS official said no decision has been made about sharing the video with the public or with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, which is conducting its own investigation. District Attorney Sean Teare told NBC News on Thursday that he has interviewed a key witness who was handcuffed in the back of the ICE vehicle when it hit Miguel Parra Hernández.

The witness “had a front-row seat to the incident and everything that led up to it,” Teare said. “We did get a significant amount of relevant details from him.” The witness was interviewed at the Port Isabel Processing Center, about 35 to 40 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas, according to the district attorney’s office. The Port Isabel facility is historically known as the last stop before an immigrant is removed from the U.S. Teare said his office is compiling all information it