Ontario police assist DHS operation as a shooting involving federal officers occurred

Ontario Police Department officers were called to assist Department of Homeland Security officers early Thursday morning regarding a shooting.

According to Ontario police, the department was called at 6:33 a.m. to the 2800 block of South Vineyard Avenue. "Ontario Police officers were not involved in the initial incident," the department wrote in a press release.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a written statement that as ICE officers conducted a vehicle stop on Vineyard Avenue, "an unknown individual, not the target, in a vehicle pulled in front of the officers."

As officers ordered the driver to leave the scene, the car stopped and "attempted to run officers over by reversing directly at them without stopping."

"An ICE officer, fearing for his life, fired defensive shots at the vehicle. The subject fled the scene and abandoned his vehicle," McLaughlin said in a statement.

Ontario police officers provided traffic control and security while DHS and the FBI conducted investigations, according to the Ontario Police Department.

McLaughlin noted that anyone who assaults, impedes, or threatens the lives of federal officers will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.