Another Person Dies in Fatal ICE Shooting—a Week After the Last One
ICE has fatally shot a person in Biddeford, Maine.

A young man was shot and killed Monday morning by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Biddeford, Maine, according to reports by local media outlets and authorities.
“This morning a shooting occurred in Biddeford,” Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau wrote in a Facebook post. “A person was killed. ICE was involved. State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on scene to gather details and would expect the FBI to investigate as well.”
The victim, who appears to have been shot while operating a car, was a 26-year-old Colombian man “who was authorized to work in the United States and had been issued a Social Security number,” according to two immigrants rights groups, Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine.
“A 26-year-old man came to Maine to live and work, and now his family is mourning his death following an incident involving ICE,” the groups said in a statement. “This is devastating, enraging, and unacceptable. His loved ones deserve answers, and the public deserves a full and transparent account of what happened.”
At a press conference Senator Angus King said the FBI would investigate the incident. King also said the agents involved were not wearing body cameras and that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had told him the victim was the target of an immigration operation “based on his immigration status.”
But hours later, King amended the latter point, stating that the Homeland Security secretary had since informed him the victim was actually “not the target of the warrant.”
According to King, Mullin alleged the man “weaponized” his vehicle against an agent—recalling accusations ICE has made dubiously against other victims of high-profile fatal incidents involving the agency in the past.
A statement from the Maine Attorney General’s Office, citing “initial statements,” says the man “attempted to flee in a vehicle in the direction of the officer and was fatally shot.”
Footage of the aftermath appears to show ICE agents standing around the deceased man in an intersection, beside a white Kia sedan whose windshield bore several bullet holes.
A witness told the Portland Press Herald that he heard gunshots, then saw an SUV attempting to “ram a small white car in the intersection” before agents in vests stopped the white car and pulled the man from the vehicle. Before he died, the victim was “bleeding profusely from the head,” that witness said. “He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop.’”
Another witness told the Press Herald that the victim’s family was apparently at the scene of the shooting. As the man lay on the street, an “older woman” was present “with a distressed family,” including a toddler—a little girl in Bluey pajamas. “You took her dad, you took her dad!” the woman yelled.
This is at least the eleventh fatal ICE shooting since Donald Trump returned to office—and the second in less than a week, coming just days after ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, on July 7.
Members of the community protested the fatal shooting Monday morning and afternoon.
At one such protest, City Councilor Abigail Woods told the Biddeford Gazette, a local news source, that friends of hers had witnessed the incident. “It’s unacceptable to have one of our own residents in the city of Biddeford be murdered by ICE,” Woods said.
This story has been updated.



