A Person Is Killed And An Ice Agent Injured In An Immigration Arrest Near Chicago

An serviceman fatally changeable a personification who injured an ICE supplier during an migration apprehension successful nan Chicago area Friday, according to national migration officials.

A spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that officers were conducting a conveyance extremity arsenic portion of a "targeted rule enforcement activity" connected Friday morning.

The personification being stopped resisted and attempted to thrust his conveyance into nan officers arresting him, subsequently striking and dragging 1 of them, ICE said successful a statement. "Fearing for his life, nan serviceman discharged his firearm and struck nan subject," ICE said.

Photos and video captured by NBC Chicago showed aggregate rule enforcement vehicles successful Franklin Park, wherever nan shooting occurred.

Both nan serviceman and nan driver were taken to a hospital. The driver was pronounced dormant astatine nan hospital. The serviceman sustained terrible injuries and is successful unchangeable condition, ICE said.

“We are praying for nan speedy betterment of our rule enforcement officer," Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. "He followed his training, utilized due force, and decently enforced nan rule to protect nan nationalist and rule enforcement."

​The Department of Homeland Security identified nan driver who was killed arsenic Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. DHS said successful a connection that he was nan "target of nan enforcement operation" and that he came to nan United States "at an chartless day and time."

DHS accused Villegas-Gonzalez of having "a history of reckless driving."