The Colombian man who was fatally shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Biddeford, Maine, was not the target of the warrant that officers were attempting to serve, according to Sen. Angus King (I-ME).The shooting comes less than a week after another fatal ICE officer-involved shooting in Houston, in which the victim was not the target of the warrant. In that case, officers killed Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who had lived in the United States for more than 35 years.King said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the man was shot after allegedly using his vehicle as a weapon against officers.
“He was in a vehicle — pulled out in the vehicle, and the term the secretary used was ‘weaponized’ the vehicle and was shot by an ICE agent,” King said.The Maine Attorney General’s Office, which is investigating the shooting alongside the FBI and other agencies, said preliminary evidence indicates the man was attempting to flee in the direction of an officer when the shooting occurred. King was originally told in his meeting with Mullin that the man shot was out for arrest on a final deportation order. The ICE officer involved has been placed on leave.Immigrant rights groups identified the man as a 26-year-old Colombian national who “came to Maine to live and work.”Biddeford City Councilor Abigail Woods hugs an unidentified constituent during an impromptu protest near the scene of a shooting involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Monday, July 13, 2026, in Biddeford, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
