Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials may have been involved in a fatal shooting in Maine, although few details about the incident have been released.
“This morning a shooting occurred in Biddeford. A person was killed. ICE was involved,” Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau said in a statement on Facebook on Monday morning.
Biddeford is a city in southern Maine near Portland.
He added that the Maine State Police and the state’s Department of Public Safety are investigating, and that he expects the FBI to get involved.
“These are the details that I have at this time,” Fecteau said. “I will provide further updates, as they are relayed to me.”
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) said in a post on social media that her office is “aware of reports that someone was fatally shot in Biddeford this morning, and ICE may be involved.”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, and the Maine State Police did not immediately respond to an Epoch Times request for comment.
Several other Democratic Maine candidates released statements following the shooting.
Troy Jackson, a Democrat who is running for the U.S. Senate seat after former party nominee Graham Platner dropped out of the race on Friday, said in a statement that he received information about the shooting.
“I’ve been alerted to the fatal ICE shooting in Biddeford this morning. Our team is monitoring this situation very closely and will provide updates as we learn more. My heart is with Biddeford—and with all Mainers,” he said in a post on X.
Nirav Shah, another Democrat running for the Senate seat, also released a statement.
“The Maine Solidarity Fund has been providing direct assistance to Maine’s Black and Brown immigrant communities as they face arrest, detention, and deportation from ICE. If you can, please consider giving in support of their work today,” Shah wrote Monday in a post on X that included a link to a funding organization.
The shooting took place several days after an ICE-involved shooting of an illegal immigrant in Houston, officials said. Federal authorities said he rammed an ICE vehicle, prompting an officer to shoot him.
DHS said that federal officers were looking for someone else when they attempted to stop a vehicle driven by Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who lived in the United States. DHS said Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle and that an officer opened fire in self-defense.
Two people were fatally shot during ICE-related activities in Minneapolis earlier in the year.
DHS, meanwhile, has said that ICE agents and their families have faced a significant increase in threats and assaults since the Trump administration took over.
