One person was killed in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine, Monday morning, state Rep. Ryan Fecteau said in a social media post.
“This morning, a shooting occurred in Biddeford. A person was killed. ICE was involved,” Fecteau wrote. “State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on scene to gather details and would expect the FBI to investigate as well.”
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NBC News reported that the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition and Presente!, two immigrant advocacy groups, identified the victim as a 26-year-old Colombian man. They said that he had authority to work in the U.S. The Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition told the outlet it was waiting to notify the victim’s family before it released additional information.
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said during a news conference Monday that Department of Homeland Security Director Markwayne Mullin told him that his office would investigate the shooting but said the agents had not been wearing body cameras. Mullin told King that DHS has widely distributed body cameras, but they had not been deployed to Biddeford. King said they might reach the area within the next 45 days, according to NBC.
“I am concerned that they should have been having body cameras two years ago when all this started,” King said. “It shouldn’t be a case of, ‘Oh well, maybe we should do something about body cameras.'”
King originally said that Mullin told him ICE officials targeted the man because he had a final deportation order. But on Monday afternoon, King said that Mullin later told him the victim was not the target of the warrant agents were executing, according to The Associated Press.
Details of shooting
Mullin reportedly told King that the victim had “weaponized” his vehicle and tried to drive into ICE officers, who opened fire.
“He was in a vehicle — pulled out in the vehicle, and the term the secretary used was ‘weaponized’ the vehicle and was shot by an ICE agent,” King said, according to the AP.
Cory Poulin told the AP that security cameras from his nearby business captured the immediate aftermath of the shooting. He said the video shows the victim’s car rolling into the intersection after officers opened fire, while other images from the scene show the car going around in circles with bullet holes in its windshield.
“Two ICE members ran to the intersection and another ICE member in a Ford SUV went into the intersection to stop the car from rolling,” he told the AP. “I don’t know for a fact, but I don’t believe he was alive when the car started rolling.”
Numerous news organizations reported that witnesses saw ICE officers surround a car with their guns drawn.
ICE agents fatal shooting footage from Biddeford, Maine has been released by Portland Press Herald. https://t.co/3VUBN54l3M pic.twitter.com/OYivFM8SKV
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U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, responded to the incident in a post on Instagram, saying she was on her way to the airport to go to Washington, D.C., when she heard about the shooting.
“I am so deeply disturbed and angry,” Pingree said. “I, of course, need to know all of the answers here.”
She said she and her team are working to learn more.
There are also reports of protests in the city, and Troy Jackson, who is running for U.S. Senate, says he will speak at a rally downtown.
“Our immigrant communities are under attack by ICE,” he wrote on X. “For too long, federal agents have been abducting our neighbors in brazen violation of the Constitution, and today, they have tragically escalated even further. This rogue agency must be abolished.”
The shooting comes less than a week after a man was shot and killed by ICE in Houston.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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