Is a federal employee described as an "ICE agent" in social media posts now wanted by law enforcement for his involvement in a Chicago shooting? No, that's not true: No court records say that such an arrest warrant was issued. An attorney for the injured woman, charged with interfering with on-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents, confirmed to Lead Stories that the claim was not true.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) published on TikTok on November 4, 2025. The add-on text in the clip read:
BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot a Chicago woman five times and then fled to Maine in the ICE vehicle now has a WARRANT out for his arrest for the incident. He is facing up to 20 years in prison. GOOD. But he should get locked away for life.
This is what it looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at tiktok.com/@tylermatl)
The post referred to an incident that took place in Chicago, Illinois, on October 4, 2025. According to the government's criminal complaint (archived here and here), on that day, two cars driven by Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz "aggressively" pursued a silver Chevrolet Tahoe driven by a Customs and Borders Protection agent, which resulted in "driving into and striking" the agent's vehicle on both the driver's and "passenger's side.
When Martinez's and the CBP agent's cars stopped, the agent later identified as Charles Exum (archived here) "proceeded to fire approximately five shots from his service weapon at the driver of the Martinez Vehicle." The woman was later taken to the hospital to be treated for gunshot wounds.
When asked if an arrest warrant had been issued for Exum, Christopher Parente, who is one of Martinez's attorneys, told Lead Stories via email on November 10, 2025:
This is not true.
According to searches on Google News and Yahoo News (archived here), no credible media outlet reported that an arrest warrant had been issued for Exum, the CBP agent involved in the incident, as of this writing.
Martinez was charged with "one count of forcibly impeding, intimidating, and interfering with" U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents while they are on duty with "a deadly or dangerous weapon, namely, a motor vehicle".
According to court records available via PACER (case #1:25-cr-00636), Martinez's defense contests the government's version of events, suggesting that it was the agent's vehicle that struck her car first and raising questions about the release of his vehicle from the FBI garage before the defense could examine it.
Lead Stories manually reviewed the case's docket report and found no mentions of the purported arrest warrant for the CBP agent.
