A coverage of a shooting in Maine on Monday revealed that U.S. immigration agents were involved and a person was killed, according to a state lawmaker, following an earlier incident in Texas where an ICE agent fatally shot a man during a traffic stop.
“This morning a shooting occurred in Biddeford. One person was killed. ICE was involved,” Ryan Fecteau, the speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and a resident of Biddeford, posted on Facebook. “State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on the scene to gather details and expect the FBI to investigate as well.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security officials could not be reached for comment at the time of writing.
Biddeford police declined to comment and referred the inquiry to ICE, while the mayor did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Biddeford, a city of over 21,000 residents, is located 15 miles (24 km) south of Portland and 90 miles (145 km) north of Boston.
Monday’s incident occurs six days after an ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston during a traffic stop, an event that sparked protests in the city’s heavily Hispanic East End. ICE said in a statement that Salgado, a Mexican national who had lived in the U.S. illegally for more than three decades, had rammed a law enforcement vehicle with his van and tried to run over an officer who fired in self‑defence.
