A man fleeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ran out onto a busy highway and was struck and killed Thursday in Virginia, authorities said. The incident appeared to be the second time since August that a person was killed by oncoming traffic while attempting to flee ICE agents , according to local officials.

Jose Castro-Rivera died Thursday after ICE officers made a car stop in what a senior Department of Homeland Security official said was a “targeted, intelligence-based immigration enforcement operation.” The official did not include additional details about Castro-Rivera.

Virginia State Police said it responded at 11 a.m. Thursday to a report of a man being struck by a vehicle on Interstate 264 eastbound at the Military Highway interchange in Norfolk.

The DHS official to

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