Man fleeing Home Depot immigration raid is struck, killed by car on the 210 Freeway

Jenny Jarvie, Karen Garcia and Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times on Aug 14, 2025

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LOS ANGELES — 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.

His death at an area hospital was confirmed Thursday afternoon by Monrovia City Manager Dylan Feik. Monrovia police received reports at 9:43 a.m. of immigration agents approaching the Home Depot, according to Feik, who said an officer observed possible Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the site.

A day laborer who spoke to the Los Angeles Times and asked that his name not be used, citing safety concerns, said he goes to the Monrovia Home Depot every day around 8 a.m. in search of work.

Thursday morning started like any other, he said, until he heard people start to yell, “ La migra, corre.” (“Immigration, run!”)

That’s when the day laborer took out his phone and started to record.

Although he avoided detention, he said he “felt powerless” that he couldn’t help his friends. “It feels horrible — I couldn’t do anything for them other than record what was happening.”

As workers scrambled away from the agents, one person fled the hardware store on foot, jumped a concrete wall 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.

A motorist, Vincent Enriquez, said he saw the man soon after he was struck and he was still alive.

“By the time I was passing by ... he must’ve been struck no more than a few minutes prior,” said the driver. “He was still moving.”

The person was transported by ambulance to a hospital but did not survive his injuries.

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.

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.

Immigrant rights advocates voiced their anger following the fatality.

“We hold the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the Home Depot responsible for his death, and they must be held accountable,” said Ron Gochez, a member of Unión del Barrio, an immigrant rights group that patrols neighborhoods to alert residents of immigration sweeps.

“This is a painful reminder for us that we must continue to boycott the Home Depot due to their complicity to the ICE raids at their stores,” he said. “The Home Depot and the agents that chased the man have blood on their hands.”

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.