An ICE officer fatally shot a man Monday morning in Maine — marking the second fatal ICE shooting in less than a week as the Trump administration pushes for more arrests of people in immigration proceedings.

Immigrant rights groups identified the man as a 26-year-old Colombian national who had a U.S. work authorization and Social Security number. Officials have not yet identified the deceased by name.

After this article was published, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) said he was told by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin that the “victim was not the target of the warrant.”

And by Monday evening, an unnamed ICE spokesperson had released a statement on the incident.

“On July 13, 2026, at approximately 7:00 AM ET, ICE was conducting targeted surveillance on the last known address of an illegal alien with a final order of removal. An illegal alien departed the residence in a vehicle. ICE law enforcement attempted to conduct a vehicle stop,” the statement began, without clarifying whether the person who departed the residence was in fact the target of ICE’s surveillance.

The statement continued: “The vehicle attempted to flee the scene and fearing for public safety an officer discharged his weapon. The driver of the vehicle was struck, and emergency services were immediately contacted. He passed away from his injuries.”

The statement added that the DHS inspector general’s office “has been notified and like all discharge of firearms this will be investigated.”

The shooting comes just six days after ICE agents fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father of three and longtime Houston resident, in Texas. Immigration agents have fatally shot 11 people in Trump’s second term, and dozens more have died of other causes while in ICE’s custody, marking a record-breaking stretch.

Details of the Biddeford, Maine, incident are scant so far. Photos published by the Portland Press Herald show a white Kia sedan with at least five shots into its front windshield. As in Texas, officers involved in the shooting reportedly were not wearing body cameras.

The Maine Attorney General’s Office said in a press release midday Monday it was investigating “a fatal use of deadly force” involving federal law enforcement.

“Initial statements indicate an Enforcement Removal Operations Officer was conducting an enforcement operation related to a final order of removal when the subject attempted to flee in a vehicle in the direction of the officer and was fatally shot,” the release said.

The office did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s questions about what statements it was referencing or who made them.

Earlier Monday, King told reporters that Mullin had alleged to him the victim “weaponized” his vehicle — a claim the department has regularly made following shootings by federal agents. Similar claims from immigration agents have frequently turned out to be false. (Notably, ICE’s statement on Monday evening said only that the “vehicle attempted to flee the scene.”)

Lucas Scott, a man who was driving through the intersection where the shooting occurred, told the Press Herald he heard yelling, looked over and saw an ICE officer draw his weapon.

“He kept yelling and yelling, and warning the person driving — which is when the car was put into drive and was trying to hit the ICE officer,” Scott said. That’s when shots rang out, Scott said.

Daniel Boucher, who lives nearby, told the Press Herald he heard gunshots and then saw a man who agents had pulled out of a vehicle “bleeding profusely from the head.”

“He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop,’” Boucher said. Later, Boucher said, an agent he believed to have fired the shots that hit the driver walked past his front door.

“I said, ‘This was awful,’ and he said, ‘He was trying to ram me,’” Boucher recalled to the paper. Another person, Mia Covino, told The New York Times one agent was “yelling, ‘He tried to run me over,’” after she heard shots fired.

Another woman, Em Akerley, told the Press Herald she saw agents pressed up against the driver’s side door trying to guide it from hitting anything. A video published by the paper appeared to show that scene, which would have followed the shooting. After agents pulled the driver out of his vehicle, “no one went to him and no one did anything,” Akerley said.

Cecelia Humiston told the paper a young girl — “she couldn’t have been older than three” — was present near the body of the deceased, with an older woman yelling, “You took her dad, you took her dad!”

The shooting came less than a week after ICE officers shot Salgado Araujo in Houston on Tuesday.

Salgado Araujo was not the target of the agents who ultimately shot him, but he was nonetheless followed in his work van by two unmarked ICE vehicles.

Reports indicated three witnesses in Salgado Araujo’s vehicle, themselves taken into ICE custody, were facing pressure to “self-deport.” The witnesses have since disputed the Trump administration’s assertion that an ICE officer acted in self-defense. As with the shooting in Maine, DHS said Salgado Araujo “weaponized” his vehicle. But video footage has not shown Salgado Araujo deliberately ramming any law enforcement vehicle, contrary to the government’s claims.

ICE activity has increased around the country in recent weeks, including in Houston and around Maine, according to several reports. Multiple outlets have reported a spike in ICE arrests.

ICE officials have been told the Trump White House wants an increase in arrests and that 2,000 arrests per day is the new benchmark, The New York Times reported July 1. During a previous peak in ICE activity, from December 2025 through January 2026, ICE arrested an average of 1,264 people per day, according to the American Immigration Council.