1 person killed in Maine shooting involving ICE, state House speaker says
A person was killed during a shooting in Maine involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday morning, state House Speaker Ryan Fecteau said.
The police department in Biddeford, Maine, said in a statement that it responded to an incident involving ICE personnel at the intersection of Pool and Hill streets on Monday morning and was providing security at the scene. The department directed inquiries about the incident to ICE.
Project Relief Maine, an immigrant advocacy group, said in a statement on social media that the person who was killed was one of their community members.
"We are in contact with the family and are committed to supporting them during this unimaginable time," the group said. "This was a young person whose life was cut short, and our community must come together to stand with their loved ones and ensure they are not alone. They must get justice."
Fecteau said on Facebook that state police and the state Department of Public Safety were on the scene gathering details. He said he didn't immediately have other information to provide.
Maine shooting comes after deadly incident in Houston
The shooting comes after an ICE officer shot and killed a Mexican man in his work van last week in Houston.
In that incident, security camera footage obtained by CBS affiliate KHOU-TV shows ICE officers in unmarked vehicles followed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo after he picked up co-workers for a construction job.
The Department of Homeland Security said officers thought one of the men resembled someone they were looking for and that Araujo attempted to run over an officer who fired in self-defense. An attorney for two of the men in the van said the ICE officer fired into the vehicle through a window on the passenger side.
"Lorenzo had already parked the van. The ICE agent reaches in, fires a shot directly in front of Victor's face, strikes Lorenzo on the side," attorney Hugo Balderas-Ibarra said in an Instagram video.
The ICE officers involved in the shooting weren't wearing body cameras and didn't have dashboard cameras in their vehicles. The FBI is investigating the shooting.
