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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says an illegal immigrant who was previously deported allegedly killed a 61-year-old man in September.

The DHS said Wilmer Fuentes Mejia allegedly killed 61-year-old Richard Ferguson Jr. in a hit-and-run crash in Durham, North Carolina, on Sept. 13. ICE lodged an immigration detainer for Mejia.

The agency said Mejia first entered the U.S. illegally in 2015 and was released into the country during the Obama administration.

He was ordered to be removed by an immigration judge in December 2019 and was removed by ICE in 2020 during the first Trump administration, but illegally returned at a later date, officials said. Mejia is from Guatemala.

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