Person fleeing ICE agents in Florida fatally struck by vehicle, highway patrol says
St. Johns County Sheriff's Office posted this image of the road that was closed due to the accident on Tuesday
(CNN) — A person who ran away from federal immigration agents in St. Augustine, Florida, early Tuesday was struck and killed by a tractor trailer, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The incident occurred around 6:40 a.m. during an encounter with Homeland Security Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the highway patrol said in a statement.
Four occupants of a vehicle ran away and one ran across State Road 16 and “into the path of the tractor trailer,” Sgt. Dylan Bryan told CNN.
While the driver stopped and tried to render aid, the person died at the scene, Bryan said.
The Associated Press reported the person is a man.
His immigration status and nationality are unknown, and the reason for the encounter with federal agents is not yet clear.
The highway patrol is investigating the incident, and the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office helped with traffic control.
CNN has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment.
The incident comes after other high-profile deaths involving ICE this past week.
Monday, 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Durán Guerrero from Colombia was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Biddeford, Maine.
A week earlier, on July 7, Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston.
Neither was the target of an immigration enforcemnt operation, officials said.
Tuesday’s crash is also not the first time a person has died while fleeing immigration enforcement.
Last August, a Guatemalan man running from an immigration raid in Los Angeles died after being struck by an SUV on a freeway.
In October, a Honduran man was fatally struck by a vehicle on a Virginia highway while fleeing immigration agents, The Associated Press reported.
In February, a teacher was killed near her school after a man fleeing ICE crashed a car into hers.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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