Editor’s note: This article has been edited to include a statement from officials and to clarify that the target of the ICE officers was not the individual who was shot.

(NewsNation) — A 26-year-old Colombian national is dead after a shooting involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer took place Monday morning in Maine, NewsNation has confirmed.

The shooting took place around 7:20 a.m. local time in Biddeford, which is about 15 miles south of Portland and 90 miles north of Boston. Federal immigration officials have not released any details about what led to the fatal shooting.

While Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine, initially said that he was told that the man who was fatally shot by ICE was being targeted by the agency, he later corrected that information, saying that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had notified him the arrest warrant was not for the person who was shot, The Associated Press reported.

King said Mullin “got new information, and when he got it, he called me to tell me.”

The Maine Attorney General’s Office is among those investigating the incident. The office said that initial reports indicate that the man was trying to leave the scene in the direction of the officer who fired his gun. The officer has been placed on leave, which is standard policy for ICE-involved shootings.

An ICE spokesperson issued a statement Monday, detailing 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 vehicle attempted to flee the scene and fearing for public safety an officer discharged his weapon.

The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine identified the man as a 26-year-old Colombian national who was authorized to work in the United States and who had been issued a Social Security number.

“He was a member of our community, a neighbor, and a human being whose life was cut tragically short, the groups said in a statement released Monday. “We extend our deepest condolences to his family, loved ones, and everyone now grieving this unimaginable loss.

“This is devastating, enraging, and unacceptable. His loved ones deserve answers, and the public deserves a full and transparent account of what happened.”

Ruben Torres, the advocacy and policy manager at Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition, told NBC News that the organization is waiting to notify the man’s family before publicly releasing his name.

By Monday afternoon, multiple agencies — including Homeland Security Investigations — were being called to the scene of the shooting as anti-ICE protests began to grow and were becoming unruly, sources said.

A source told NewsNation on Monday that investigators have no body camera footage of the shooting. The FBI is on the scene of the shooting along with the Maine State Police, and ICE officers have returned to the field office to begin follow-up work on the incident, the source said.

The shooting is the ninth such deadly incident involving federal immigration officers and agents since President Donald Trump took office in early 2025.

Ryan Fecteau, the Maine speaker of the house, wrote on social media Monday morning that a shooting had happened.

“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,” Fecteau wrote in the post. “These are the details that I have at this time. I will provide further updates, as they are relayed to me.”

The shooting is the second ICE-involved fatality in less than a week. Salgado Araujo, 52, died at a Houston hospital from his injuries last week after he was shot during what the Department of Homeland Security initially said was a targeted traffic stop that took place during an immigration enforcement operation.

DHS officials later confirmed that Salgado Araujo was not the intended target of the operation and instead resembled a person that ICE was targeting and who was seen driving a white van. DHS and the FBI are conducting investigations into the shooting.

Investigators said that in Houston last week, ICE officers were not wearing body cameras during the incident despite the agency being provided $20 million for cameras under President Donald Trump’s funding bill that provides billions of dollars for his immigration crackdown.

U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Democrat from Houston, said during a news conference Friday that she was upset that ICE officers working in the field in Houston did not have cameras despite former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem promising in February that they would be delivered.

On Monday, King, the Maine senator, said Mullin told him body-worn cameras would be delivered within 45 days, which mirrors the message officials in Houston said they received last week.

“I am concerned that they should have been having body cameras two years ago when all this started. It shouldn’t be a case of, ‘Oh well, maybe we should do something about body cameras,’” King said.

DHS launched an immigration enforcement operation in Maine in January that it dubbed “Operation Catch of the Day”, focusing on a state of just 1.4 million residents.

The operation began after DHS focused on cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis. The Associated Press reported in January that DHS had identified approximately 1,400 targets it was seeking for detainment.

Gov. Janet Mills issued a statement saying she had been briefed on the fatal shooting “involving Federal law enforcement.” Mills, a Democrat, said that the State Police are at the scene and working with the state attorney general’s office, chief medical examiner’s office and federal officials to determine what happened.

“I know that situations like these are alarming and frightening,” Mills said.

Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins wrote in a social media post Monday that the shooting requires a “full and impartial investigation” into what happened.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.