MELROSE PARK — Chants of “Justicìa!” rang out Tuesday as a planned Mexican Independence Day march evolved into a protest over last week’s fatal shooting of a man immigration agents sought to arrest after he dropped his children off at school.

Marchers held photos of Silverio Villegas-Gonzáles — the 38-year-old man fatally shot by an immigration agent in nearby Franklin Park Friday — during an afternoon procession through Melrose Park Tuesday.

“[ICE] assassinated a hard-working man, a father that only wanted to drop off his kids, go to work and then come back … but he never came back home,” said Nancy Salgado, director of organizing for the Melrose Park-based immigrant rights nonprofit PASO West Suburban Action Project. “Today, we stand in solidarity with his family.”

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