NEW YORK, Oct. 15 -- Oscar Belgal had picked up his 5-year-old son from school and stopped at McDonald's, his lawyers say, before parking by a fire hydrant near home. Then a masked man with a drawn gun came to the car window. Nearly a week later, the bullet that struck him below the left ear is still in his neck.

Belgal, 28, a Dominican national, was shot on Oct. 8 in Marble Hill during what Immigration and Customs Enforcement called a targeted arrest. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Hector Gonzalez temporarily barred his deportation and his transfer outside the federal districts of New York and New Jersey, ABC News reported, and asked the government to explain why it believes mandatory detention is warranted.

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