Federal immigration officials opened fire on a vehicle on Wednesday that they said was carrying two illegal immigrants and tried to run them over as they conducted a “targeted immigration enforcement operation” in the Baltimore, Maryland, suburb of Glen Burnie.

A spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the Washington Examiner in a statement that Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, who has allegedly been in the United States illegally from Portugal since 2009, was shot by ICE officers after he “drove his van directly at ICE officers” in an attempt “to run them over.”