A man was shot and killed by ICE agents in the Chicago area after driving a car at an officer, immigration officials confirmed.

Officials named him as Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez and said he was in the country illegally.

A video posted online showed the moment a lorry driver called police to report his vehicle had been hit by the man’s car in Franklin Park village, 15 miles north-west of Chicago.

“I’m a CDL (commercial driver’s licence) truck driver,” the driver says. 

“A car hit my trailer. I think ICE tried to pull him over and he crashed into my trailer.”

A spokesman for the department of homeland security (DHS) said Friday morning’s incident occurred during “an enforcement operation targeting a criminal illegal alien”.

“ICE officers conducted a vehicle stop to arrest Villegas-Gonzalez. He refused to follow law enforcement commands and drove his car at law enforcement officers,” said a DHS statement.

The spokesman added: “One of the ICE officers was hit by the car and dragged a significant distance. Fearing for his own life, the officer fired his weapon.”

Villegas-Gonzalez was “a criminal illegal alien with a history of reckless driving”, the spokesman claimed, although they did not provide further details.