Man Fleeing ICE Officers in Florida Is Struck and Killed by Tractor Trailer, Police Say
The Florida Highway Patrol said the man fled an ICE and Homeland Security Investigations encounter, and the semi driver stopped to help.
- On Tuesday, a 28-year-old man died near State Road 16 and Green Acres Road in St. Augustine, Florida, after running into the path of a tractor trailer while fleeing an encounter with Homeland Security Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
- Four occupants of a vehicle fled a gas station parking lot during the encounter, Florida Highway Patrol said. One person ran "across State Road 16 and into the path of the tractor trailer," while the 64-year-old truck driver "immediately stopped and attempted to render aid to the victim."
- Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the traffic fatality, though officials confirmed they were not involved in the initial encounter. Neither Immigration and Customs Enforcement nor the Department of Homeland Security has commented on the incident.
- This death marks the third fatal encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in about a week, following shootings in Maine involving Joan Sebastian Guerrero and in Houston involving Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Officials indicated neither victim was the person agents were targeting.
- The Trump administration ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to pause most traffic stops on Tuesday, following mounting scrutiny over the agency's operational tactics and the series of fatal encounters across the country.
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Florida man dies after ICE encounter
Investigators say a 28-year-old man was running across a St. Augustine highway, fleeing an encounter with ICE agents at a near by gas station, when he was struck and killed by a passing semi-truck. The post Florida man dies after ICE encounter appeared first on KYMA.
ST. AUGUSTINE— A man fleeing a meeting with immigration agents and another federal unit in Florida was hit on Tuesday by a cargo truck, authorities said. “This is the third death in the last week related to encounters with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, following the shootings in Texas and Maine. The 28-year-old man was one of four occupants of a vehicle that stopped in the parking lot of a gas station and convenience sto…
In Florida, another man has been killed in connection with the ICE immigration agency's actions, and the agency is now to restrict its controls.
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