A person was killed Monday morning in a shooting involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Biddeford, Maine. The incident occurred at approximately 7:20 a.m. local time, with an eyewitness reporting seeing at least two officers in green ICE vests and hearing at least four gunshots.
Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau confirmed the shooting on Facebook, stating that ICE was involved and that the FBI is expected to investigate. The activist group Project Relief Maine said a young person was killed during a confrontation with immigration agents. State police and the Department of Public Safety were also present at the scene.
The shooting marks the second fatal ICE-related incident in less than a week. Six days earlier, an ICE agent in Houston fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant. The back-to-back deaths have drawn renewed scrutiny of the agency's enforcement operations.