DISTURBING AUDIO CAPTURES THE FINAL MOMENTS – NEW RECORDING EMERGES AFTER MAINE MAN IS FATALLY SH0T DURING CONFRONTATION WITH ICE AGENTS.
Gunshots were heard ringing out in a quiet Maine town as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot dead a man who allegedly drove his car at them.
The unidentified motorist was killed in Biddeford shortly after 7am ET Monday morning after apparently ignoring orders from officers.
Ring camera footage obtained from inside a nearby home by The Maine Wire captured the sound of the deadly confrontation, with two cats looking startled by the sudden burst of loud noise.
Photos taken in the aftermath showed a bullet hole on the windshield of the white Kia sedan being driven by the victim when he was killed.
A witness told the Portland Press-Herald that the man emerged from the car bleeding profusely from his head moments after the shooting.
Photos taken from the scene show the victim lying on a nearby road.
It remains unclear if the victim happened upon ICE by chance or if he was protesting the presence of officers.
Agents have been carrying out raids in Biddeford in recent weeks and locals knew they were there, the Press-Herald reported.
Maine’s House Speaker Ryan Fecteau said: ‘A 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. These are the details that I have at this time. I will provide further updates, as they are relayed to me.’
Witness Lucas Scott, 18, told the Press Herald that he was driving through the intersection moments before the shooting, and saw a group of unmarked vehicles descend on another car.
He said he saw agents in ICE uniforms confronting the driver of the vehicle, seconds before an agent pulled his weapon and ordered the man to exit his car.
‘The car was put into drive and was trying to hit the ICE officer,’ Scott said. He said he then heard the ICE agent fire several shots quickly.
A spokesman for Biddeford Police told CNN that there was no further threat to the public.
Mary Hayes, a resident who lives near the scene, told the Press Herald that she did not see the agent open fire, but arrived in time to see the victim lying in the street.
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A driver was shot dead by ICE officers in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday morning after allegedly trying to mow down agents with his car
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Footage circulating social media showed a man laying by the side of the road as police and ICE agents provided aid and consoled each other
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Details of the fatal shooting are still developing, and lawmakers have called for answers as to what the ICE agents were doing in the small Maine town or why the driver’s vehicle was targeted
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‘There’s a dead body down there,’ she said.
‘I mean, we live in Maine. We don’t expect this to happen here. What have we come to?’ she added.
Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree said she was ‘deeply disturbed and angry’ by the news.
‘I, of course, need to know all of the answers here,’ the Democrat said.
Pingree said she wanted to know if the ICE agents were pursuing a migrant with a criminal record or if the shooting was a routine traffic stop, but added, ‘More than anything else, I want to know why you’re in Maine?’
‘Every report we hear is about somebody being picked up who legally was here, and is this going to be another one of those stories?’
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Officers at the scene of the shooting on Monday morning, after witnesses said they saw the victim ‘trying to hit the ICE officer’ with his car
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Agents hugging each other in footage taken in the aftermath of the shooting
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A witness said he saw the driver ‘trying to hit the ICE officer’, moments before hearing an agent fire roughly four shots
It comes just days after an ICE agent fatally shot a Mexican immigrant during a traffic stop in Houston, which sparked mass protests.
Scrutiny on ICE activities was also compounded by the fatal shootings of anti-ICE protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota earlier this year.
The shooting on Monday has quickly led to calls for protest, with the social justice group Biddeford Saco for Racial Justice saying on Facebook that it would be holding a demonstration within a matter of hours.
‘Folks are really upset,’ the group said. ‘I imagine there will be more.’
