A 28-year-old Mexican man died on 14 July after being struck by a tractor-trailer while fleeing immigration agents in St. Augustine, Florida. Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán was a tourist with a valid visitor visa, according to his wife and a Florida-based farmworker advocacy group, Colectivo Árbol, which is assisting the family. He had been in the United States for three weeks, visiting relatives in Georgia before travelling to Florida’s east coast, and had a return flight booked to Mexico.

U.S. authorities have not publicly identified the deceased, but Mexican state officials in Guanajuato confirmed his name and said his widow, Yezzika Alamilla, travelled to Orlando to repatriate his remains. The state government will cover funeral and transport costs, the undersecretary for migrant affairs, Susana Guerra Vallejo, told reporters. The couple had two young children. Coronilla Durán was one of four people in a vehicle that stopped at a petrol station car park before 7 a.m.; all four fled on foot when agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations approached, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. He ran across a busy road and was hit by a lorry.

It remains unclear what prompted the encounter and what happened to the other three occupants. The Department of Homeland Security has not commented on Coronilla Durán’s visa status or provided a detailed account, citing an ongoing investigation by the highway patrol and HSI. The incident is the third death in roughly a week involving encounters with ICE agents, following the fatal shooting of a Mexican man in Houston on 7 July and a Colombian national in Biddeford, Maine, on 13 July. The Mexican government has asked U.S. state attorneys general to review the deaths for possible criminal prosecution.

The three deaths have drawn renewed attention to ICE tactics, particularly vehicle stops and the absence of body cameras. White House border czar Tom Homan said on Monday that he wants cameras deployed "as soon as possible," while a group of Democratic senators accused the administration of having had sufficient time and funding. The vehicle stop policy was briefly suspended last week before President Donald Trump reversed the decision. In the Florida case, no official account has been released, and the investigation continues.