A vigil is planned outside a Monrovia Home Depot store Friday night for a man who died as he was allegedly fleeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers Thursday morning.

The National Day Laborer Organizing Network is hosting the 6 p.m. event in memory of the man who died, who has not yet been identified.

"The worker was fleeing an unannounced raid by immigration agents, the latest in an ongoing wave of violent, chaotic kidnappings and assaults that ICE and other agencies are waging at Home Depots and other locations across Southern California," the group said in a statement.

The Monrovia Police Department said the man ran away from the Home Depot at 1625 Mountain Avenue as ICE agents approached the hardware store. The man crossed Evergreen Avenue and ran onto the 210 Freeway

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