Shooting six days after fatal Houston encounter
A person was killed Monday in a shooting involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Biddeford, Maine, according to state House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, the latest fatal incident connected to federal immigration enforcement since the second Trump administration took office in early 2025.
Fecteau wrote on a personal Facebook page that the shooting occurred in the morning and that a person was killed, with ICE 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,” he said, according to media reports of the post.
The shooting happened six days after an ICE agent in Houston fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo while officers were trying to stop his vehicle. MSI previously reported that the agent fired during a “targeted enforcement operation” and that a DHS spokesperson said Salgado was not the intended target.
The Biddeford shooting was at least the 10th fatal shooting by federal immigration officials in the United States since the Trump administration took office in early 2025, according to a review of public reports by the Guardian. The tally includes the shooting deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Nicole Macklin Good and Alex Pretti by immigration officials in Minneapolis in separate incidents in January.
Local media reported that authorities closed a road and FBI officials joined local law enforcement at a crime scene in Biddeford, a city of more than 21,000 people about 15 miles south of Portland. Biddeford police referred inquiries to ICE, and the city’s mayor did not immediately respond to requests for comment. ICE and DHS officials could not be reached.