By Lizbeth Diaz

IRIMBO, Michoacan, Mexico (Reuters) -Family and friends gathered in a small Mexican town on Friday to mourn and demand justice for a 38-year-old father of two who was killed by an immigration agent during an arrest attempt in a Chicago suburb earlier this month.

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez left Irimbo, in Mexico’s Michoacan state, for the United States 18 years ago. He returned on Thursday in a coffin after he was shot dead by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on September 12.

On Friday afternoon, a somber procession followed his coffin to a funeral mass.

“We are in a lot of pain,” Villegas’ older brother Jorge Villegas told Reuters through tears.

“At least my brother is here now. We can finally give him a Christian burial.”

Villegas’ killing, just after

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