{"id":760548,"date":"2026-07-13T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760548\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:12:09","slug":"one-killed-in-maine-ice-involved-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760548\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed in Maine ICE-involved shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n A person was killed Monday in an ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine, according to the state\u2019s speaker of the house \u2014 just days after a federal agent fatally shot a Mexican immigrant during a traffic stop in Houston<\/a>, sparking mass protests and demands for transparency and accountability.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cA 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,\u201d Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau said in a statement on Facebook. \u201cThese are the details that I have at this time. I will provide further updates, as they are relayed to me.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security for comment.\n <\/p>\n

\n Biddeford police told CNN there was a \u201cpolice incident\u201d in the area, about 18 miles south of Portland, and said there is no threat to the public at this time, but declined to provide additional details.\n <\/p>\n

\n Maine Democratic US Rep. Chellie Pingree said she was \u201cdisturbed and angry\u201d upon hearing the news of the shooting. She called for an investigation into the incident, adding a question directed at ICE officers: \u201cWhy are you in Maine?\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The incident 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 a source later said Salgado Araujo was not the target of the operation.\n <\/p>\n

\n 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\u2019s operation in Minneapolis.\n <\/p>\n

\n The administration dubbed a similar surge in immigration enforcement across Maine in January \u201cOperation Catch of the Day.\u201d<\/a> The ACLU and other advocates filed a lawsuit against federal immigration agents for \u201cabducting a lawful immigrant\u201d during the surge.\n <\/p>\n

\n Some community groups and advocates that rallied against the surge earlier this year have already started to organize in response to Monday\u2019s shooting. The group \u201cMaine Resists<\/a>\u201d has planned an emergency community rally in the city at noon. The racial justice and immigrant rights group Project Relief<\/a> said it is in touch with the victim\u2019s family.\n <\/p>\n

\n This is a developing story and will be updated.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was killed Monday in an ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine, according to the state\u2019s speaker of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-760548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}