Authorities in Maine are calling for a full investigation of a fatal shooting involving ICE agents. Witness video from Biddeford, Maine, appears to show federal immigration agents pulling an unresponsive driver from a car and handcuffing him moments after shots were fired Monday morning, the Bangor Daily News reports. A local resident who filmed the scene says agents in green vests rammed a white sedan with an SUV, surrounded it with guns drawn, shouted that there was a weapon, then opened fire when the driver didn't get out. Advocacy groups say the victim was a 26-year-old Colombian man with legal work authorization and a Social Security number; officials have not publicly identified him.
Independent Sen. Angus King says Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the man was shot after he "weaponized" his vehicle against ICE agents pursuing him for deportation, the AP reports. King says the agents were not wearing body cameras. "The question is, what did he do with his vehicle," King says. "Were officers threatened? Were the threats rising to the level that justified deadly force?" Officials including Gov. Janet Mills and Biddeford's mayor called for an investigation, the New York Times reports. "We will get answers, but we do not have them yet," Mayor Liam LaFountain said in a statement, calling for a "full, thorough and transparent investigation into this fatal incident." Republican Sen. Susan Collins also called for "a full and impartial investigation."
The shooting quickly drew protesters and Democratic candidates to a downtown park. "I watched a wife fall to her knees looking at her husband's dead body on the ground," Mary Hayes, who lives near the scene of the shooting, told the AP. "I watched a little girl crying with a little pink backpack on because she's never going to see her father again." She said the man lived nearby with his wife and daughter.
- A witness tells CNN that she heard multiple gunshots, then saw "a small white car doing a slow circle in the intersection with two agents pressed up against the driver side door." Cory Poulin, whose family runs a nearby laundromat, tells the AP that security cameras captured the vehicle rolling into the intersection. "Two ICE members ran to the intersection and another ICE member in a Ford SUV went into the intersection to stop the car from rolling," he says. "I don't know for a fact, but I don't believe he was alive when the car started rolling."
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