Man was fatally hit by vehicle while fleeing ICE on Virginia highway, officials say

A man fleeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ran out onto a busy highway and was struck and killed Thursday in Virginia, authorities said.

A man fleeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ran out onto a busy highway and was struck and killed Thursday in Virginia, authorities said. The incident appeared to be the second time since August that a person was killed by oncoming traffic while attempting to flee ICE agents, according to local officials.

Jose Castro-Rivera died Thursday after ICE officers made a car stop in what a senior Department of Homeland Security official said was a “targeted, intelligence-based immigration enforcement operation.” The official did not include additional details about Castro-Rivera.

Virginia State Police said it responded at 11 a.m. Thursday to a report of a man being struck by a vehicle on Interstate 264 eastbound at the Military Highway interchange in Norfolk.

The DHS official told NBC News that after determining that the occupants were allegedly in the United States illegally, the immigration agents began detaining the people in the car; that's when Castro-Rivera resisted and ran onto a busy highway. The official did not provide additional details about the other people in the car.

“Unfortunately, a passing vehicle struck Castro-Rivera,” the official said, adding that an ICE officer administered CPR to Castro-Rivera, but he died.