Illinois Quick Hits: State Police Investigating 2025 Fatal ICE-Involved Shooting

Illinois Quick Hits: State police investigating 2025 fatal ICE-involved shooting

(The Center Square) – Illinois State Police have begun investigating the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez last September by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Franklin Park.

Illinois State Police investigating fatal ICE shooting of Silverio Villegas González – Capitol News IL

The investigation was prompted by a request last week from the police department of Franklin Park, where Silverio Villegas González was fatally shot Sept. 12, 2025. Shortly after Villegas González dropped off his children at school and daycare that Friday morning, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled him over and, in the altercation that followed, shot him in the neck.

Illinois State Police investigating fatal ICE shooting of Silverio Villegas González

CHICAGO — Eight months after a federal immigration agent shot and killed a man in the earliest days of “Operation Midway Blitz,” the Illinois State Police has opened an investigation into the fatal shooting. The investigation was prompted by a request last week from the police department of Franklin Park, a near-west suburb of Chicago... The post Illinois State Police investigating fatal ICE shooting of Silverio Villegas González appeared first …