A previously deported illegal immigrant from Mexico murdered his girlfriend’s mother and injuring two others in a shooting spree Saturday at an Alpine Township home, police allege.

Gilberto Hernandez-Mendez, 42, was arraigned Monday on 11 felony counts, including open murder, attempted homicide, and multiple weapons offenses, according to the Kent County Sheriff’s Office.

“Gilberto Hernandez-Mendez is an illegal alien from Mexico,” a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told MLive in an email. ICE “is assisting the Kent County Sheriff’s Office as this case remains under investigation.”

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Hernandez-Mendez, who was previously deported, was referred to ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement and Removal Operations following his arrest, WWMT reports.

Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report from a neighbor of several gunshots at a home in the 4500 block of Tabor Road in Alpine Township around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday. An involved victim also called to report a shooting at the home, sheriff’s officials said.

When deputies arrived, they found 56-year-old Norma Ramierez-Martinez deceased at the scene, and two others – a 30-year-old female and 36-year-old female – with serious injuries.

An uninjured adult male and uninjured toddler were also at the home, where a preliminary investigation indicated the shooting started as a domestic dispute.

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The injured women, Ramierez-Martinez’s adult daughters, were transported to the hospital and were in stable condition on Tuesday. A neighbor told deputies the suspect fled in a pickup truck shorter after the shooting.

One of the daughters told investigators Hernandez-Mendez was her live-in boyfriend, and he shot all three victims with a pistol following a verbal argument, according to an affidavit cited by MLive.

The affidavit stated Hernandez-Mendez, who went by a false name, also attempted to shoot another person at the home, but the pistol malfunctioned.

KCSO deputies tracked Hernandez-Mendez to Berrien County and he was arrested at about 7 a.m. Saturday in a coordinated effort by multiple law enforcement agencies.

“We’re pretty proud of the fact we were able to identify this guy, who was using an alias, and take him into custody the same day in Coloma, which is a considerable distance,” Kent County Sheriff’s Sgt. Scott Dietrich told The Detroit News.

“The Kent County Sheriff’s Office extends its condolences to the family and friends of the victim,” a KCSO statement read. “KCSO will continue to work swiftly using all resources to bring justice for those affected by violent crime.

“We want to thank the Coloma Township Police Department, Michigan State Police, and Watervliet City Police Department for their assistance in locating and arresting the suspect.”

Judge Daniel O’Hara on Monday arraigned Hernandez-Mendez on felony charges of open murder, two counts of attempted murder, discharging a firearm causing death, two counts of discharging a firearm causing serious impairment, felonious assault, and four counts of felony firearms.

Hernandez-Mendez, who faces up to life in prison if convicted, remains in the Kent County Jail on an ICE detainer with a probable cause hearing scheduled for March 5.

The case follows numerous others involving Michigan deaths at the hands of illegal immigrants in recent years.

In May 2023 illegal immigrant Luis Bernal-Sosa gunned down the mother of his young child, 22-year-old Leah Gomez, while she was sitting in her car with the child in the back seat. Bernal-Sosa, a Mexican national, was sentenced to life in prison with no option for parole in April 2024.

A month later, previously deported illegal immigrant Brandon Ortiz-Vite murdered Grand Rapids’ Ruby Garcia with an illegally purchased handgun before dumping the woman’s body alongside U.S. 131 and fleeing in her car. Ortiz-Vite, a Mexican national deported by President Donald Trump in 2020, was sentenced in November to 39 years in prison.

Garcia’s murder occurred the same month Grand Rapids Police charged Dominican illegal immigrant Louis Angel Otanez-Castello with multiple felonies in a hit-and-run that claimed the life of 53-year-old Robert Delgado, who was sent 115 feet to his death in the May 2024 crash.

Police allege Otanez-Castello was driving “at a high rate of speed” in a 30 mph zone of South Division Avenue after a night drinking at Le Petit Chateau sports bar when video shows Delgado attempted unsuccessfully to avoid the vehicle.

In June, Shelby Township police allege 33-year-old illegal immigrant Jose Medina-Hernandez was driving a box truck on M-59 that “rear ended a Buick Verano which triggered a chain reaction involving two other vehicles.”

Nancy Richmond, 88, and her daughter Crystal Brunn, 63, were in the Buick and killed in the crash that victims said left two cars “cut in half,” the Macomb Daily reports.

Data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement released in September showed more than 662,000 illegal immigrants on the agency’s docket who have criminal convictions or charges pending.

Those criminals, the vast majority free to roam the U.S., include 13,099 convicted murderers, 15,811 convicted of sexual assaults, 162,231 convicted of assault, 56,533 with dangerous drug convictions, 5,797 convicted of fraud, 18,234 convicted of larceny, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 13,423 with weapons convictions 10,031 convicted of robbery, 9,461 with non-assaultive sexual convictions, 2,521 kidnappers, and 217 convicted of extortion.

Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term to launch the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, vowing to prioritize illegal immigrant criminals.

“All illegal entry will immediately be halted. And we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came,” Trump said in his inauguration speech.