- Federal immigration agents reportedly shot and killed a driver in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday morning.
- Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau confirmed the death in a brief statement, saying that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “was involved,” with state and federal agencies expected to investigate.
- Lucas Scott, 18, told the Portland Press Herald that he saw ICE agents in green vests hop out of unmarked vehicles with flashing blue lights. As he turned to see what was happening as he passed through an intersection, he saw an agent draw a firearm and yell at a driver who “was trying to hit the ICE officer,” Scott told the newspaper.
- Another witness, Daniel Boucher, observed an unmarked SUV attempting to ram the smaller car. “He was bleeding profusely from the head,” Boucher told the Press Herald. “He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop.'”
- This incident marks at least the 11th fatal shooting involving federal immigration agents since the beginning of the Trump administration last year, amidst an acceleration of ICE arrests nationwide. Last Tuesday, a Mexican man was killed in Houston by an ICE agent.
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