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BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) \u2014 An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a motorist in Maine on Monday, the second time in a week that ICE has used deadly force and at least the ninth death since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n

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Immigrant rights groups identified the man who was killed in Biddeford as a 26-year-old native of Colombia. The Colombian Embassy said it was in contact with U.S. authorities about the Colombian national\u2019s death and \u201cis providing the necessary consular assistance to his family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE, said in a post on X that agents were surveilling an address for a person with a final order of removal from the country. When ICE tried to stop a vehicle driven by someone coming from that address, the \u201cvehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n

Prior to the brief ICE statement on the incident, Maine U.S. Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the officer opened fire after the man tried to use his vehicle as a weapon against ICE agents in Biddeford, a coastal city roughly 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of Portland. The agents involved didn\u2019t have body cameras, he said.<\/p>\n

When asked about the contrasting statements, King told CNN that that\u2019s what the investigation is all about.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid this young man actually try to run over an ICE agent or was he in danger of running over other people in the street?\u201d he said. \u201cWas there a reasonable expectation of bodily harm or deadly force to justify this shooting?\u201d<\/p>\n

DHS did not immediately respond to an email seeking clarity on what led to the shooting.<\/p>\n

King, an independent, said Mullin also told him the officers were in Biddeford to serve an arrest warrant but that it was not for the person who was shot. King said Mullin told him that earlier information that the man was the target of an enforcement action was incorrect.<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said Mullin told her the Homeland Security Department\u2019s Office of Inspector General is investigating in cooperation with the FBI.<\/p>\n

Messages seeking comment were left for the inspector general\u2019s office and the Maine Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n

The Maine attorney general\u2019s office, which is also investigating, said initial statements suggest the motorist was trying to flee in the direction of the agent. The office said the agent who killed him has been placed on leave.<\/p>\n

Witness says he heard driver say, \u2018I tried to stop\u2019<\/h3>\n

Daniel Boucher said he looked out his third-floor window after hearing a \u201cpop, pop, pop\u201d sound and saw a small car \u201cturned 90 degrees to the curb\u201d with an SUV behind it. The driver was wounded and the car started moving down the street until the SUV hit it, Boucher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis face was bloody. His head was bloody,\u201d Boucher said, getting choked up. \u201cI clearly heard the victim say, \u2018I tried to stop.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Boucher said he saw an ICE officer bring a medical bag to where the man was lying before an ambulance and fire truck arrived. At one point, Boucher said, the agent who shot the man walked close to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was emotional and I just let him have it, and he looked at me and said, \u2018He tried to run me over,\u2019 or something to that effect,\u201d Boucher said. \u201cI don\u2019t remember his exact words.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video from a security camera at a nearby business, obtained by the AP, shows a white vehicle approaching an intersection at a modest speed before making several slow circles. A law enforcement SUV blocked its path and two officers open the driver\u2019s door and dragged out a limp body.<\/p>\n

It was not clear from the video at what point shots were fired.<\/p>\n

The man was authorized to work in the US, advocates say<\/h3>\n

Two advocacy groups \u2014 the Maine Immigrants\u2019 Rights Coalition and Presente! \u2014 said the man who was killed was authorized to work in the U.S.<\/p>\n

After the shooting, his family contacted the Immigrants\u2019 Rights Coalition, but they weren\u2019t ready to speak publicly about the shooting, said the group\u2019s executive director, Mufalo Chitam.<\/p>\n

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Mary Hayes, who lives close to where the shooting happened, said the man lived nearby with his wife and daughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI watched a wife fall to her knees looking at her husband\u2019s dead body on the ground,\u201d Hayes told the AP as she held a piece of cardboard with \u201cNo ICE Stop ICE\u201d written on it. \u201cI watched a little girl crying with a little pink backpack on because she\u2019s never going to see her father again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sadie Dilboy said the man killed in the shooting regularly came to her laundromat and would bring his daughter, who he\u2019d give quarters to buy candy from the vending machine.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was such a good person,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was always cleaning up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anti-ICE protesters gather near the scene<\/h3>\n

Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Biddeford on Monday night to wave anti-ICE signs and call for the agency to be abolished.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will always be a city of immigrants,\u201d said Maine Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau, a Democrat from Biddeford.<\/p>\n

A handful of pro-ICE and pro-Trump protesters demonstrated across the street.<\/p>\n

Some demonstrators had gathered in the city within hours of the shooting. Amy Goodman arrived with a sign that said \u201cStop Killing Us\u201d and directed it toward police working at the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, it\u2019s something we\u2019re seeing a whole lot more often lately, and I\u2019m mad about it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A recent uptick in Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown<\/h3>\n

On July 7, an ICE officer fatally shot 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, of Houston, after federal agents driving unmarked vehicles pursued him while he was taking his construction crew to a job site.<\/p>\n

The shootings come amid a Trump administration push to carry out its mass deportations agenda. During the five-day period at the end of June, ICE arrested more than 10,000 people.<\/p>\n

The figures indicate that while the administration is no longer cracking down on individual cities, the arrests are surging. The administration\u2019s enforcement efforts were widely condemned last winter after the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of Maine ICE arrests since Trump\u2019s return<\/h3>\n

ICE had a significant presence in Maine earlier this year, which prompted several protests. Immigration officials later said in late January that they had ceased \u201cenhanced operations\u201d in Maine after hundreds of arrests.<\/p>\n

A Homeland Security spokesperson said at the time that some Maine arrests were of people \u201cconvicted of horrific crimes\u201d including aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n

Court records show that while some had felony convictions, others had unresolved immigration proceedings or had been arrested but never convicted of a crime.<\/p>\n

ICE arrested 546 people in Maine between the start of Trump\u2019s second term and March 11, 2026, the most recent data available, according to ICE arrest data provided to the University of California, Berkeley Deportation Data Project and analyzed by the AP.<\/p>\n

About 45% of arrested people had criminal backgrounds. During the equivalent 416-day period before Trump took office, roughly 69% of those arrested had criminal backgrounds, the data shows.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Willingham reported from Boston and Brook reported from New Orleans. Associated Press reporters Michael R. Sisak in New York, Aaron Kessler in Washington, Kate Brumback in Atlanta and Hallie Golden in Seattle contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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