Off-Duty FBI Agent Kills Gunman Firing at Chicago Homeless Camp; Feds Say He Was Released at Border
An off-duty FBI agent shot and killed a man who was firing a gun at people in a Chicago homeless encampment Monday evening, and federal officials say the gunman was in the country illegally.
The agent was driving home alone in a bureau vehicle around 5:30 p.m. when he saw the man fire at least two shots toward people near 18th Street and Union Avenue in Pilsen, the FBI said.
“In an effort to stop the ongoing threat, the agent engaged with the individual,” the bureau said in a statement. No one else was hurt, and the agent was not injured.
The Cook County medical examiner identified the man as 27-year-old Oscar D. Isaya-Corrales. He was shot in both legs, the chest and the right side and died at Stroger Hospital less than an hour later, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Officers responding to an officer-in-distress call found the 41-year-old agent holding a man at gunpoint. Police found a handgun beneath an e-bike the man had apparently been riding, according to a preliminary police report.
A witness described a man in black wearing a ski mask riding an e-bike and holding an object as the shots rang out, CWB Chicago reported.
Released more than once
The FBI said it learned after the shooting that Isaya-Corrales was a Venezuelan national who had been taken into custody at the southern border in 2023 and then released during the Biden administration.
Federal law enforcement sources told Fox News that he had also been arrested in California and released despite an ICE detainer. The charges in that case and the jurisdiction that released him have not been disclosed.
In Chicago, Isaya-Corrales was arrested in May at a Nordstrom store downtown and charged with felony retail theft after security guards said he tried to steal five necklaces worth nearly $320.
He was carrying a Guatemalan passport that police said did not belong to him. Chicago and Cook County do not honor ICE detainers, and the theft charge was not one that allowed jail detention under Illinois law.
He was released and failed to appear for his next court date six days later. A felony warrant for his arrest had been active since then, according to Cook County court records.
Federal sources stressed that the shooting had nothing to do with immigration enforcement. The agent, who joined the FBI in 2017, was off duty and happened upon the gunfire.
“The FBI takes all shooting incidents involving our agents or task force members seriously,” the bureau said, adding that its Inspection Division is reviewing the shooting under standard policy, Fox 32 Chicago reported.
The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, the standard classification for a death caused by another person. The FBI said it does not expect to release more information while the review continues.
Chicago’s police department said its Investigative Response Team documented the scene, and the investigation remains open.
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