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Silverio Villegas Gonzalez

Named on the ICE FY2025 deaths list; incident circumstances require separate verification.

Record ID
IB-021
Date of death
September 12, 2025
Outcome
Fatal
Category
ICE custody death / classification to verify

What happened

Silverio Villegas González was killed during an immigration-enforcement encounter in the Chicago area in September 2025. The case involves an enforcement shooting outside a detention facility, not an ordinary death inside ICE custody. His inclusion in an ICE-related directory must distinguish what agents reported about the encounter from eyewitness accounts and subsequent investigative findings.

Investigation & findings

Reclassify as an enforcement-operation shooting where supported by contemporaneous reporting; do not label this a custodial death solely because it appeared on a compiled list. The exact chronology and agency findings require examination.

Last reviewed: October 25, 2026

Sources & records

  1. Primary source
  2. Deaths and Health Care Issues in ICE Detention CentersKFF · 2026 · Research analysis
  3. Mortality in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement DetentionJAMA · 2026 · Peer reviewed analysis