Person killed in shooting involving ICE agents in Maine, reports say | Maine
Days after a man was killed by an immigration officer during a traffic stop in Texas, a man was killed in a shooting involving U.S. immigration officers in Maine on Monday, media outlets reported, citing a prominent state lawmaker.
Media reports about the shooting in Biddeford, Maine, referenced a post by Maine state House speaker Ryan Fecteau on his personal Facebook page.
“A shooting occurred in Biddeford this morning,” Fecteau reportedly said. Referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), his post continued: “One person has been killed. ICE is involved. State Police and the Department of Public Safety are currently on scene gathering details and are waiting for the FBI to investigate as well.”
Local media reported that authorities blocked a road and escorted local law enforcement along with FBI officials to a crime scene in Biddeford, a town of more than 21,000 people located about 25 miles south of Portland and 90 miles north of Boston.
ICE and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Biddeford police had no comment to Reuters and referred an investigation by the news agency to ICE. The mayor did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
The incident in Biddeford occurred six days after an ICE agent in Houston fatally shot a man identified as local builder Lorenzo Salgado Araujo as officers tried to stop his vehicle.
Despite ICE’s claims that the agent who killed Salgado fired in self-defense, witnesses denied that Salgado “used a gun” on his vehicle during the encounter.
A DHS spokesperson said Salgado was not the target of an ongoing ICE arrest operation at the time of his killing. However, in the statement made by the spokesperson, it was stated that ICE agents tried to stop the van because there was only one person inside who “looked like the target.”
Salgado’s death was the 10th fatal shooting by federal immigration authorities in the United States since the second Trump administration took office in early 2025, according to public reporting by the Guardian.
These include the shooting deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration officials in Minneapolis in separate incidents in January.
The killings of Salgado, Good, Pretti and other similar cases sparked protests.
Reuters contributed reporting
