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A person was killed on Monday in a shooting involving US immigration agents in Maine, media outlets reported citing a prominent state lawmaker, days after a man was killed by an immigration agent during a traffic stop in Texas.
Media reports of the shooting in Biddeford, Maine, cited a post by the Maine state house’s speaker, Ryan Fecteau, on a personal Facebook page.
“This morning a shooting occurred in Biddeford,” Fecteau reportedly wrote. Referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), his post continued: “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.”
Local media said authorities closed a road and local law enforcement were joined by FBI officials at a crime scene in Biddeford, a city of more than ۲۱,۰۰۰ people that is about ۱۵ miles south of Portland and ۹۰ miles north of Boston.
ICE and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
Biddeford police did not comment to Reuters and referred an inquiry from the news wire service to ICE. And the mayor did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
The case in Biddeford was six days after an ICE agent in Houston fatally shot a man identified as local builder Lorenzo Salgado Araujo while officers were trying to stop his vehicle.
Witnesses have denied that Salgado ever “weaponized” his vehicle during the encounter despite ICE’s claims that the agent who killed Salgado fired in justifiable self-defense.
A DHS spokesperson has said Salgado was not the target of an ICE arrest operation in progress at the time of his killing. But ICE agents attempted to stop his van because there was an individual inside who merely “resembled the target”, a statement from the spokesperson said.
Salgado’s death marked the ۱۰th fatal shooting by federal immigration officials in the US since the second Trump administration took office in early ۲۰۲۵, a review of public reports by the Guardian shows.
Those include the shooting deaths of US citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of immigration officials in Minneapolis in separate cases in January.
The killings of Salgado, Good, Pretti and other similar cases have prompted protests.
Reuters contributed reporting
