Biddeford, United States. A person was killed on Monday in a shooting involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, according to Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau.
Fecteau said state police and the Department of Public Safety were at the scene and that he expected the FBI to investigate.
Officials seek details
“This morning a shooting occurred in Biddeford. A person was killed. ICE was involved,” Fecteau, a Biddeford native, wrote on Facebook.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security officials could not immediately be reached for comment. Biddeford police referred inquiries to ICE, while the city’s mayor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Biddeford, a city of more than 21,000 people, is about 15 miles south of Portland and 90 miles north of Boston.
Recent shooting in Texas
The incident occurred six days after an ICE agent fatally shot a man identified as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a traffic stop in Houston, prompting protests in the city’s heavily Hispanic East End.
ICE said hours after the Houston shooting that Salgado, a Mexican national who had lived in the United States illegally for more than three decades, rammed a law enforcement vehicle with his van and attempted to run over an officer. The agency said the officer fired in self-defense.
ICE has not provided evidence supporting that account. Three men who witnessed the shooting disputed the agency’s description, according to a lawyer representing two of them.
Relatives said Salgado, a father of three and construction worker, was in the process of obtaining a work permit.
Broader enforcement crackdown
The shootings occurred amid President Donald Trump’s federal crackdown on migrants nationwide, which has drawn objections from local Democratic leaders and prompted protests in multiple cities.