Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz said in a statement Wednesday that the federal officer who shot and killed a San Antonio man on South Padre Island last March has been no-billed.
“Today, The Cameron County District Attorney’s office presented the March 15, 2025, Officer Involved Shooting to the Grand Jury. The Grand Jury, thereafter, issued a no bill on the case,” the statement read.
Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was shot and killed on March 15, 2025 by a federal immigration agent on South Padre Island during a traffic encounter, the Associated Press previously reported.
The fact that Martinez was killed by an immigration agent was not publicly disclosed for nearly a year and it became public after federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.
The AP reported that Martinez’s death marks at least six fatal shootings by federal officers during the nationwide immigration crackdown ordered by President Donald Trump.
DHS told the AP that Martinez “intentionally ran over a Homeland Security Investigation special agent,” causing another agent to fire “defensive shots to protect himself, his fellow agents, and the general public.”
Joshua Orta, Martinez’s passenger, who was a key witness who contradicted that narrative and said they were trying to comply, died in a car crash in San Antonio last Saturday, the New York Times previously reported.
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