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A federal prosecutor revealed in court Tuesday that despite assault charges being dismissed, a separate criminal investigation remains ongoing into an incident in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood last month where a woman was shot by a Border Patrol agent.

The exact nature of the probe was not revealed, though it seems to center on the agent involved in the shooting of Marimar Martinez on Oct. 4 after her car collided with the agent’s vehicle in what became one of the highest-profile incidents of Operation Midway Blitz.

Martinez, who was wounded seven times in the shooting, had been accused of intentionally ramming the agents’ vehicle. But the U.S. attorney’s office dismissed all charges against her last week after it was revealed the agen

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