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FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. (WLS) — ABC7 has obtained body camera video of Franklin Park police responding to a deadly shooting involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent earlier this month.
The Department of Homeland Security said the shooting unfolded on the morning of Sept. 12 when the man they were targeting in a traffic stop drove his car toward officers, hitting one of them.
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The bodycam video, obtained from the Franklin Park Police Department through the Freedom of Information Act, shows police officers speaking with witnesses and ICE agents moments after the deadly shooting. And the ICE officer, who shot the man after being hit, described his own injuries as “nothing major.”
The footage begins with officers arriving to the scene near Grand and Elder Lane. It shows 38-year-old Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, who DHS says was an undocumented immigrant with a history of reckless driving, being treated on the ground after being shot by an ICE agent.
“He tried to run us over,” an ICE agent says in the video.
ABC7 blurred Villegas-Gonzalez’s body as well as faces of bystanders and witnesses.
Villegas-Gonzalez, who his family says, came to the United States more than 20 years ago from Mexico, died at the hospital.
In the video, an officer asks an ICE agent if there are any other suspects, and the agent responds, “He’s the only one.”
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The shooting happened after, federal authorities say, Villegas-Gonzalez tried to escape arrest by driving away. They say during that alleged escape, “One of the ICE officers was hit by the car and dragged a significant distance. Fearing for his own life, the officer fired his weapon.”
DHS said the ICE officer suffered severe injuries and was stabilized at the hospital before being released.
The bodycam video shows how that federal agent, seen with a torn pants leg, described his injuries to responding officers on scene.
“I got dragged a little bit,” he says. “Uh, just a left knee injury, and some lacerations. Nothing major.”
Cellphone video obtained by ABC7 that same day shows when ICE officers removed Villegas-Gonzalez from his car, which crashed into a box truck.
The box truck’s driver described what he saw to police.
“They had pulled him over. They cut him off. They got out the car. They were trying to get him, but he reversed. And, I was already pulling to the side, and that’s when — I don’t know if they shot him beforehand, and that’s why he crashed into the trailer,” the driver said. “But I’m assuming he had gotten shot because why else would he crash into the trailer?”
The box truck driver told the officer he heard one shot being fired.
This shooting received backlash from both city and state leaders.
In a response to ABC7, DHS said the officer who fired his weapon has been an ICE officer since 2021, and was the first time he fired his weapon in a use-of-force incident.
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