India, Jan. 10 -- Federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, a day after an officer shot and killed a driver in Minnesota, authorities said.

The Department of Homeland Security described the vehicle's passenger as "a Venezuelan illegal alien affiliated with the transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring" who had been involved in a recent shooting in Portland. When agents identified themselves to the occupants during a "targeted vehicle stop" Thursday afternoon, the driver tried to run them over, the department said in a written statement. "Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired a defensive shot," the statement said. "The driver drove off with the...