Charles Exum is a CBP agent who shot Marimar Martinez five times on 10/04/2025, pictured above captured in bodycam footage through the trigger guard of another immigration officer’s rifle. Charles Exum did this during Operation Midway Blitz, a large-scale punitive action by ICE against the citizenry Chicago IL, on Oct. 4, 2025. Charles Exum swerved his car to potentially instigate a collision with the car Marimar Martinez was driving, and then apparently shot her for the crime of following him in order to alert her community to the presence of DHS agents. After the federal government dropped charges against Marimar Martinez relating to her arrest, she sued DHS over her brush with state violence on 02/11/2026.
CBP agent Charles Exum lives in Robbinston ME, with his wife and dogs. His property straddles the border between Robbinston and Calais, a town directly northwest. Charles Exum and his wife are both originally from Georgia. As of January 2026, Charles Exum has been reportedly working as a CBP agent for 23 years.
- Year of Birth: 1966 (data brokers appear to have conflated records concerning Charles Exum with his wife, so this might be wrong)
- Web identities: charles.exum
