Death came same day as Austin ICE shooting, Evanston mistaken-identity arrest

Mario David Coronado Juarez, a 36-year-old Guatemalan construction worker, was killed Sunday in Grand Rapids, Michigan, when his car struck a tree at high speed and burst into flames as he attempted to evade a traffic stop by officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the Grand Rapids–based immigration advocacy group Movimiento Cosecha.

According to Movimiento Cosecha, Coronado was from the Guatemalan city of San Marcos. He had come to the United States alone, the group said, to work as a construction worker and send money home to his wife and three young children.

His death came the same day as two other reported incidents involving ICE officers. Critics have characterized the string of events as part of a pattern of increasingly aggressive enforcement tactics carried out in support of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

In Austin, Texas, an ICE agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan man, Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, who was working as a Door Dash delivery driver.

In Evanston, Illinois, a U.S. citizen required hospital treatment for injuries sustained when two ICE agents attempted to arrest him in what local reporting described as an apparent case of mistaken identity.

The crash is the latest fatal incident in enforcement operations that a Washington Post analysis published in July found had resulted in at least 17 motorists being shot, six of them fatally.

In Michigan, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, said she had ordered a review of the Grand Rapids incident.

Grand Rapids Police Chief Joseph Trigg asked the Michigan State Police to join the investigation, noting in a statement that his own traffic detectives had been “limited in their ability” to obtain information from federal agencies.

“MSP, under the direction of the governor and attorney general, may be in a better position to determine the timeframe and any other potentially relevant circumstances, and any next steps that may be appropriate,” Trigg’s statement said.

Democratic Michigan Congresswoman Hillary Scholten said she had asked ICE for an explanation of its agents’ actions prior to the accident.

“No traffic stop should end with a fatality. Something went wrong, and we need to know what and how,” she said in a statement that requested “a transparent investigation into facts we don’t yet know.”

ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, its parent agency, had not commented on the incident.