• Renewed demands for ICE accountability: A person was killed today in an ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine, just days after a federal agent fatally shot a Mexican immigrant during a traffic stop in Houston. The two shootings have reignited calls for accountability among ICE agents, which reached a fever pitchearlier this year following the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis
• Inside DHS:Department of Homeland Security officials have privately shared concerns that repeat instances of ICE-involved shootings will derail public sentiment about the agency
• Mexico speaks out: Meanwhile, the Mexican government will file complaints with the US Justice Department regarding the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals during immigration authorities’ operations, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced. The cases include that of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the man who was killed in Houston
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FBI investigators speak to a resident today as they work near the scene of an ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine.
A person was killed Monday in an ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine — the state’s sixth-largest city, situated on the Atlantic Coast
About 18 miles southwest of Portland, the former textile milling hub is home to about 22,000 people and predominately White, according to the US Census Bureau. About 3.5% of its population was born outside the United States
There are about 28,400 noncitizens living in Maine, according to the Vera Institute of Justice. That’s about 2% of the state’s roughly 1.4 million residents
The man killed was the target of an immigration enforcement operation who said he spoke with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin about the incident
The ACLU and other advocates filed a lawsuit against federal immigration agents for “abducting a lawful immigrant” during a statewide immigration enforcement surge in January, which the administration called “Operation Catch of the Day.”
More than 200 people were “picked up” during that operation, Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine said today
“But we have continued to see people who are having knocks come at their door, people who are afraid to go to work, people are afraid to go to the grocery store. Even though they’re legally here, they’re worried that their status won’t be believed and they will be picked up and detained,” she said
Cell phone video taken from the scene of a fatal ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford shows what appears to be the Kia Sedan the 26-year-old Colombian man may have been driving, turning in a slow circle as law enforcement officials pursue it
It is unclear if this footage was shot before or after the shooting
Car involved in ICE-involved shooting in Maine turning slowly as law enforcement pursue
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Car involved in ICE-involved shooting in Maine turning slowly as law enforcement pursue
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(Video credit: From Portland Press Herald)
Federal officers and Biddeford police provide aid to man killed in ICE-involved shooting
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A video obtained by CNN shows federal officers and Biddeford police providing aid to a man who an official says was killed in an ICE-involved shooting in Maine this morning
One person was killed in a shooting involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Biddeford, Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau said
The slain person was a 26-year-old Colombian man, according to the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition. He was a target of an immigration enforcement operation
CNN has reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security for comment
The flag of Mexico is seen at a memorial site where Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
The Mexican government will file complaints Monday with the US Justice Department and state prosecutors regarding the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals during operations conducted by immigration authorities, President Claudia Sheinbaum said
Sheinbaum confirmed that these cases include that of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, an immigrant who was shot and killed by an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent in Houston a few days ago
The Foreign Ministry communicated the complaints to the US ambassador before filing them in the United States
“He was very receptive to our concerns regarding alleged human rights violations against Mexicans in detention centers, as well as the deaths of three Mexicans during operations by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement),” she said
The president emphasized that protecting Mexicans abroad must be a national cause, amidst an escalation of her government’s actions regarding the situation of immigrants in the US. Days earlier, following the death of Salgado Araujo during an operation, Sheinbaum had indicated that the response would go “beyond” diplomatic notes
People march to honor Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on July 8 in Houston.
The federal government is not collaborating with local officials on an investigation into the fatal ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Harris County, Texas, District Attorney Sean Teare said, so he is pursuing his own independent probe
Teare said federal investigators have “not invited us in” as they look into what happened while Salgado Araujo and other men were going to work Tuesday morning
While still protecting the integrity of the investigation and any future prosecution, Teare pledged to make information public “as soon as possible,” but he cautioned the process could take “many, many months” or even years
Teare and other local officials have tried to contact several federal agencies with “varying success,” he said, and have yet to speak to the agency doing the investigation
The federal government’s cooperation will influence the length of the investigation, he said, “before we make a decision and present this to a grand jury.”
FBI investigators work the scene of an ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday.
After a person was killed in Maine today in an ICE-involved shooting, Republican Sen. Susan Collins said the incident requires a “full and impartial investigation.”
“The shooting in Biddeford requires a full and impartial investigation of what happened,” the Maine senator wrote on X. “It is my understanding that the Biddeford police have secured the site and that the FBI is investigating.”
The person who was killed was the target of an immigration enforcement operation, MaineSen. Angus King said earlier Monday
The shooting comes just days after another person was fatally shot by a federal agentduring a traffic stop in Houston
While federal officers are permitted to use deadly force to stop an imminent threat of death or serious physical injury, the Department of Homeland Security also tells its officers to remain tactically sound, including avoiding “intentionally and unreasonably placing themselves in positions in which they have no alternative to using deadly force.”
“DHS LEOs (law enforcement officers) should seek to employ tactics and techniques that effectively bring an incident under control while promoting the safety of LEOs and the public, and that minimize the risk of unintended injury or serious property damage,” US Customs and Border Protection policy says
DHS officers are permitted to use force that is “reasonable in light of the totality of the circumstances,” the policy says. They are not required to wait for an attack before using “reasonable force” to stop a threat
Multiple gunshots heard during second fatal ICE-involved shooting in less than a week
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Laura Peters heard gunshots come from the intersection of Pool Street and Hill Street in Biddeford, Maine, around 7:17 a.m. Monday, the Biddeford resident told CNN
At least four gunshots can be heard in surveillance video captured by Peters’ doorbell camera
One person was killed Monday in an ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford
Authorities have not publicly confirmed the person’s identity. CNN has reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security for comment
A bullet hole and blood stains are seen in a crashed vehicle on at the scene of Renee Good’s shooting in Minneapolis on January 7.
Hard drives of evidence in a string of Minneapolis shootings earlier this year, previously withheld by the federal government, have been turned over to state authorities, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced Monday
The evidence trove includes statements and body camera footage in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, she said. Good and Sosa-Celis were shot by an ICE agent and Pretti was shot by a Border Patrol agent
Physical evidence, including Good’s SUV, was also delivered to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Moriarty said
“The wonderful thing is now we have all the evidence. We don’t have to speculate about what we don’t have,” Moriarty said
The handover comes after months of back-and-forth between state and federal authorities over access that drove the state of Minnesota to file a lawsuit against the federal government
Moriarty said she could not speak as to why federal agencies decided to change course in the investigation
State investigators will now comb through what Moriarty called a “voluminous” amount of evidence and make a decision on whether or not to file charges against the federal agents
A 26-year-old Colombian man was killed in the shooting involving ICE officers in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, according to the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition
Authorities have not publicly confirmed the man’s identity. CNN has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment
The young man was authorized to work in the US and was issued a social security number, the group said in a statement. Federal officials have not confirmed those details
The 26-year-old was headed to work when the shooting occurred, Mufalo Chitam, the group’s executive director, told CNN
Maine Sen. Angus King described the individual as a “male in his 20s” who had been ordered removed from the United States
People pay their respects for Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a candlelight vigil on July 8, in Houston.
The recent pair of fatal shootings involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — last week in Houston and Monday in Maine — may represent the most serious challenge for Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin since he assumed control of the Department of Homeland Security in March
Mullin was propelled to the role partly as a result of how his predecessor, Kristi Noem, handled a pair of shootings in Minneapolis earlier this year that resulted in the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti
Within the Department of Homeland Security, officials have privately shared concerns repeat instances of ICE-involved shootings will derail public sentiment about the agency, as Mullin has tried to rebuild on the heels of Noem’s ouster, according to a DHS official
During his confirmation hearing, Mullin said one of his top goals was ensuring ICE would not be in the headlines nearly every day as it had been under his predecessor. He has publicly favored a low-key style of immigration enforcement that relies more on targeted operations rather than the large-scale and largely unfocused sweeps that were a hallmark of Noem’s tenure
But those targeted operations are now made more difficult by the proliferation of know-your-rights trainings that have popped up in immigrant communities across the country throughout President Donald Trump’s second term. The trainings have encouraged immigrants to not open their doors to immigration authorities, making detaining immigrants at their homes more challenging
As a result, immigration officers have begun relying more frequently on vehicle stops to apprehend undocumented immigrants. Such was the case in Houston, where Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was driving a van shortly before he was fatally shot by an ICE agent
A Kia sedan reportedly driven by the victim of a fatal shooting can be seen with four bullet holes in the windshield at the scene on Pool Street in Biddeford on Monday.
The individual fatally shot by federal agents in Maine on Monday was the target of an immigration enforcement operation who said he spoke with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin about the incident
King described the individual as a “male in his 20s” who had been ordered removed from the United States
“He was in a vehicle, pulled out in the vehicle, and the term the secretary used was ‘weaponize the vehicle.’ He was shot by an ICE agent,” King said, recalling the conversation
King, who’s calling for an investigation, said the agents were not wearing body cameras. The FBI is leading the investigation, he added
“The FBI has responded to assist on-scene immediately following this morning’s shooting incident in Biddeford, Maine. We have no additional comment at this time,” the agency said
“What did he do with his vehicle? Were officers threatened? Were the threats rising to the level that justified deadly force?” King said
King also stated he was concerned that officers involved in the incident were not wearing body cameras
“We’ve been told that body cameras would be widely distributed,” he said. “The secretary told me that they’re on order, that they have been distributed widely across the country, but not everywhere.”
Flowers, candles and handwritten messages at a memorial site where Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston, on Saturday.
The ICE-involved shooting in Maine comes on the heels of another death involving the federal agency in Houston last week
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have said an agent opened fire Tuesday morning after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national, rammed a law enforcement vehicle and refused to follow verbal commands during a traffic stop that was part of a “targeted operation.”
The shooting prompted protests and a vigil on Saturday outside city hall, with demonstrators calling for justice. Salgado Araujo was not the target of the operation, a
- Salgado Araujo was a father of three who ran his own construction business. He has lived in the US for about 35 years.
- He was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Houston while on his way to work Tuesday. He had been driving to Houston’s predominantly Hispanic East End to pick up his construction crew — his brother and two others — before driving north to work on some homes, the family said.
- Unmarked cars began following his white van. Three other men in the van, including Salgado Araujo’s brother, were detained, according to his family.
- ICE said in a statement Salgado Araujo attempted to evade arrest when agents tried to conduct a traffic stop.
- Men who were in Salgado Araujo’s work van, however, told attorney Hugo Balderas-Ibarra and Rep. Sylvia Garcia the version of events ICE presented is false. Two of the men told Garcia the agents’ vehicles bumped into them and then swayed into the van, forcing them to stop. The agents never identified themselves to the men, they told Garcia.
- The men told Garcia agents had exited their vehicles and run toward the van, she told CNN. They pulled out the passengers as one of the agents fired one shot at Salgado Araujo, she said they told her.
- Salgado Araujo’s cause of death was a gunshot wound to the torso and the manner of death was ruled a homicide, the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences told CNN.
CNN’s Julianna Bragg, Priscilla Alvarez, Alisha Ebrahimji, Caroll Alvarado, Danya Gainor, Carolina Peguero and Norma Galeana contributed reporting to this post
People stop at a memorial for Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on February 4, 2026.
The latest shootings involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Maine and Houston have renewed calls for accountability after similar scrutiny earlier this year when Renee Good and Alex Prettiwere killed by federal immigration agents during the Trump administration’s Minneapolis operation
In December 2025, the Trump administration launched “Operation Metro Surge” in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area
The surge led to weeks of protests and tense confrontations between protesters and officers. Tensions escalated in the Twin Cities on January 7, when an immigration agent fatally shot Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, in her SUV. A little more than two weeks later, agents fatally shot Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse. The administration attempted to paint both as terrorists who wanted to harm law enforcement
The deaths fueled outrage over the federal government’s presence in the Twin Cities and the Department of Homeland Security’s use of armed, masked agents in immigration enforcement operations and responses to protests
At its peak, about 3,000 immigration officers were deployed to the area. DHS said federal agents arrested more than 4,000 immigrants in Minnesota between Dec. 1 and Feb. 4
President Donald Trump deployed White House border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis following the deadly shootings of Good and Pretti. Homan officially announced the end of the operation on February 12
CNN’s Amy O’Kruk, Michael Williams, Koko Nakajima, Renée Rigdon, Byron Manley, Janie Boschma, Sharif Paget, CJ Riculan and Graham Hurley contributed to this report
FBI agents work at a scene of a shooting involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills said she has been briefed on the fatal shooting involving federal law enforcement in Biddeford, Maine
“I know that situations like these are alarming and frightening,” Mills said in a statement on X
The Maine State Police are on scene and working with state and federal officials on the investigation, the governor added
A police vehicle is parked near a scene of a shooting involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday.
A person was killed Monday in an ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine, according to the state’s speaker of the house — just days after a federal agent fatally shot a Mexican immigrant during a traffic stop in Houston, sparking mass protests and demands for transparency and accountability
“A person was killed. ICE was involved. State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on scene to gather details and would expect the FBI to investigate as well,” Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau said in a statement on Facebook. “These are the details that I have at this time. I will provide further updates, as they are relayed to me.”
CNN has reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security for comment
An FBI official places an evidence card on Pool Street in Biddeford where a man was reportedly killed in a shooting involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Monday.
Monday’s ICE-involved shooting in Maine’s sixth-largest city comes less than a week after a man on his way to work in Houston was shot and killed by an ICE agent
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed during a traffic stop in what ICE initially described as a targeted enforcement operation, though an
The shooting has reignited calls for accountability among ICE agents, which reached a fever pitch earlier this year after 37-year-old mother Renee Good and 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti were killed by federal immigration agents during the Trump administration’s operation in Minneapolis
