NEW YORK — The shooting of a Dominican man by a federal immigration officer has escalated into a widening confrontation between the Trump administration and New York officials, with the two sides offering sharply different accounts of an arrest operation that ended with seven shots fired into a vehicle carrying a 5-year-old child.

Oscar Belgal, 28, was wounded Thursday afternoon during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Marble Hill, a neighborhood at the northern edge of Manhattan bordering the Bronx. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said an ICE officer fired seven rounds during the encounter, striking Belgal in the neck. The child in the back seat, described by officials as Belgal’s young son, was not physically injured.

Belgal was taken to a hospital with injuries that authorities said were not life-threatening and later entered federal custody. By the weekend, the episode had become a major political dispute involving New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and President Donald Trump.

Mamdani said he spoke directly with Trump after the shooting and demanded that federal immigration enforcement operations in New York City stop. Hochul also pressed federal officials over the incident. New York leaders have called for a full investigation and the release of federal body-camera footage showing what happened immediately before the shooting.

Federal officials have defended the officers’ actions. Marcos Charles, a senior ICE enforcement official, said Belgal refused commands to leave his vehicle and attempted to drive away after federal vehicles were positioned around him. According to the federal account, Belgal struck government vehicles and drove toward officers, causing them to believe they were in danger.

Homeland Security officials also said the agents did not know a child was inside the vehicle when the officer opened fire. Mullin, appearing alongside ICE officials, argued that the incident demonstrated the hazards federal officers face when arresting people away from secure detention facilities.

The Trump administration has repeatedly linked those risks to sanctuary policies in cities including New York. Federal officials contend that restrictions on local cooperation with immigration authorities can prevent ICE from taking custody of targeted immigrants at jails or other controlled locations, requiring agents instead to make arrests in neighborhoods, workplaces or vehicles.

New York officials reject the administration’s broader characterization of the city’s policies and have focused on the tactics used in Marble Hill. Mamdani has described the shooting as an unacceptable use of federal power, particularly given the presence of a young child. He has also called for ICE operations in the city to end.

The shooting occurred at about 4 p.m. near West 225th Street and Marble Hill Avenue, according to local authorities. Witnesses described a chaotic scene involving masked or plainclothes federal officers. Some residents said it was initially difficult to determine who the armed personnel were or which agency they represented.

That issue has become part of the dispute over the operation. Video and witness accounts circulated after the shooting showed federal personnel around Belgal’s vehicle, while New York police released body-camera footage showing city officers arriving after the gunfire. The NYPD has said its officers were not involved in the federal arrest attempt and were not present when the shooting occurred.

The Department of Homeland Security said Belgal, a Dominican Republic national, was the subject of a targeted enforcement action and described him as being unlawfully present in the United States. Federal officials cited a prior grand larceny conviction, other arrests and alleged links to the Trinitarios gang.

Those allegations have become another point of political conflict. Trump administration officials have emphasized Belgal’s criminal history in defending the decision to target him, while critics of the shooting argue that a suspect’s record does not resolve questions about whether the use of force was justified at the moment shots were fired.

Federal officials have said Belgal previously avoided an effort to take him into custody. They also contend that New York authorities had previously released him despite an immigration detainer, an assertion administration officials are using to reinforce their criticism of sanctuary-city rules.

The shooting has drawn particular attention because Belgal’s son was inside the vehicle. Officials have said the child was unharmed and was placed with a family member. Images and accounts from the scene intensified criticism from immigrant advocates and elected officials who questioned whether firing repeatedly toward a car in a populated neighborhood created unacceptable risks to the child and bystanders.

Demonstrations followed the shooting, including protests at the hospital where Belgal was treated. Tensions between demonstrators and the NYPD added another layer to the controversy, with activists questioning how city police should respond when protests involve federal immigration enforcement that New York’s political leadership opposes.

Mamdani has said city authorities will scrutinize the circumstances surrounding both the federal operation and the local response. The controversy places his administration in the difficult position of condemning federal immigration tactics while maintaining public order during demonstrations against those same operations.

The legal consequences are also beginning to unfold. Belgal’s attorneys have challenged his detention, and a federal judge has intervened to prevent immediate removal while legal issues are considered. His continued detention has become part of the confrontation between New York officials and the administration, with city leaders seeking his release and federal authorities refusing to relinquish custody.

The FBI is involved in reviewing the shooting, and the federal officer who fired faces scrutiny over whether the use of deadly force complied with law-enforcement standards. Federal officials have acknowledged that ICE officers involved in the operation were wearing activated body cameras, making any eventual release of the footage potentially central to resolving competing descriptions of Belgal’s movements.

For the Trump administration, the case has become another opportunity to press its argument that sanctuary jurisdictions undermine immigration enforcement and increase danger for officers. For New York leaders, it has become evidence of what they describe as an increasingly aggressive federal campaign conducted in crowded communities without sufficient local accountability.

The dispute is therefore unlikely to turn solely on Belgal’s immigration status or criminal record. The larger questions concern how federal agents conduct arrests in jurisdictions that resist cooperation, what level of force is justified when a vehicle is involved, whether officers adequately identify themselves, and how much authority state and local governments have to demand accountability from federal immigration agencies operating on their streets.

With Belgal remaining in federal custody and body-camera footage not yet publicly resolving the competing accounts, the Marble Hill shooting has left New York and Washington locked in a confrontation that reaches far beyond a single arrest. It has become a test of the Trump administration’s expanded immigration enforcement strategy — and of how aggressively New York is prepared to resist it.