MONROVIA, Calif. (KABC) -- A somber vigil honored a 52-year-old man who was fatally struck by a vehicle on the 210 Freeway in Monrovia after he fled from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a nearby Home Depot.

Friends said Carlos Montoya had been in the U.S. for five years, working to support his four daughters back home in Guatemala.

"He needed to feed his family," Yvette del Corazon said at the vigil. "He ran out of desperation and they ran after him."

"Most of the people here who are being rounded up by men in masks -- who are not showing their faces, in unmarked vans -- are here to support their families," said Monrovia resident Dawn Lovi, who attended the vigil.

The ICE operation happened shortly before 10 a.m. on Aug. 14.

Monrovia City Manager Dylan Feik confirm

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