An undocumented immigrant who was shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a traffic stop in Tennessee on Thursday while trying to flee has not been charged with a crime despite an agent claiming he was assaulted, calling into question the events that prompted the shooting.

The incident occurred after ICE officers pulled the man over during a traffic stop in Antioch, Tennessee, on Thursday morning for immigration law violations, said Bryan Cox, a spokesperson for ICE. The man tried to flee the scene in a white box truck, Cox said, and drove toward an agent who then fired two bullets at him.

The FBI was asked to investigate whether the man, who has not been officially identified, assaulted the ICE agent. The 39-year-old Mexican national was not arrested and has not been charged with a crime, said FBI Special Agent Joel Siskovic.

Advocates said the lack of arrest or charges against the undocumented immigrant, who was shot twice by the agent and later surrendered to the FBI at a hospital, at the very least calls into question the ICE agent's version of the events that led to the shooting.

Andrew Free, a lawyer for the family of the undocumented man, said the FBI didn't arrest the Mexican native when he surrendered to agents on Thursday due to a lack of evidence.



"The FBI informed me that if there had been sufficient evidence to charge him when he surrendered he would've been arrested," Free told BuzzFeed News.