Man fleeing Home Depot immigration raid is hit and killed by a car on the 210 Freeway

A man was hit and killed on the 210 Freeway on Thursday as he tried to flee federal agents raiding a Home Depot in Monrovia.

Monrovia City Manager Dylan Feik confirmed Thursday afternoon that the man died at an area hospital.

At 9:43 a.m., the Monrovia Police Department received reports of immigration agents approaching Home Depot. An officer observed possible Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducting enforcement activities at the site, according to Feik.

As workers scrambled away from the agents, one person fled the hardware store on foot and entered the eastbound 210 Freeway.

Just a few minutes later, Monrovia Fire & Rescue responded to a call of a vehicle collision with a pedestrian. The person was transported by ambulance to a hospital.

Feik said in a statement that the city of Monrovia did not have any information on the federal immigration operation.

"There is no ongoing ICE activity reported in Monrovia at this time, and the City has not received any communication or information from ICE," he said in a statement.

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Palmira Figueroa, director of communications for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said 13 people were detained in the raid.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to The Times' request for comment.

In July, Jaime Alanís Garcia, 57, was killed during an immigration raid at a farm in Ventura County. The circumstances of his death are still not fully clear, but it sparked concern among immigration advocates.

Alanís’ family said he was fleeing immigration agents at the Glass House Farms cannabis operation in Camarillo when he climbed atop a greenhouse and accidentally fell 30 feet, suffering catastrophic injury.

But the Department of Homeland Security said that Alanís was not among those being pursued and that federal agents called in a medevac for him.

Home Depots, where immigrant laborers gather in search of work, have been the scene of numerous immigration raids across the region beginning this year.

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.