ICE-involved shooting leaves 26-year-old Colombian man dead in Maine
- Federal immigration agents shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man, authorized to work in the U.S., in Biddeford, Maine, according to immigration advocacy groups Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine.
- Witnesses reported seeing agents in unmarked vehicles, with one agent firing shots after the driver allegedly attempted to hit an officer.
- The Maine Attorney General’s Office stated an ICE officer was conducting an enforcement operation when the subject attempted to flee in a vehicle towards the officer and was fatally shot.
- 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.
- This marks at least the 11th fatal shooting involving federal immigration agents since the beginning of the Trump administration, occurring less than a week after a similar incident in Houston.
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