In a tragic incident last week, a 24-year-old man from Honduras lost his life after being hit by a vehicle while trying to evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Virginia.

Josué Castro Rivera was en route to his gardening job on Thursday when ICE agents stopped his vehicle. They intended to apprehend him along with three other passengers, his brother, Henry Castro, explained.

In an attempt to escape, Castro Rivera fled on foot and tried to cross Interstate 264 in Norfolk. Unfortunately, he was fatally struck by a 2002 Ford pickup truck, as confirmed by state and federal authorities.

The Virginia State Police reported that Castro Rivera was pronounced dead at the scene at around 11 a.m.

“He had a very good heart,” his grieving brother shared on Sunday.

Castro Rivera had been living in the US for four years and was sending money back to Honduras for his family, Henry said.

ICE officers had been carrying out a “targeted, intelligence-based” operation, and that the passengers were detained for allegedly living in the country without legal permission, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.

Castro Rivera “resisted heavily and fled” and died after a passing vehicle hit him, the DHS said.

“He didn’t deserve everything that happened to him,” his heartbroken brother said.

Castro Rivera’s family plans to raise money to send his body back to Honduras for a funeral, blasting his death as an “injustice.”

The DHS said the garden-worker’s death was “a direct result of every politician, activist, and reporter who continues to spread propaganda and misinformation about ICE’s mission and ways to avoid detention.”

Similar deaths during immigration operations have triggered outrage and calls for additional investigations.

Last month in a Chicago suburb, federal immigration agents fatally shot a Mexican man during a traffic stop.

The DHS initially said a federal officer was “seriously injured,” but police body camera video showed the federal officer walking around and describing his own injuries as “nothing major.”

In July, a farmworker died after falling from a 30-foot-high roof during a chaotic immigration raid at a southern California marijuana farm.

In August, a man ran away from federal agents onto a freeway in the same state and was fatally struck by a vehicle.

With Post wires