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Driver Shot Dead After Accelerating Toward ICE Officers in Biddeford
A driver was fatally shot by ICE officers in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday after accelerating toward agents at an intersection just after 7:15 a.m. Witnesses described the driver attempting to hit an officer and later saying he tried to stop. The New York Post reported the incident along with accounts of recent ICE activity in the area.
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A driver was shot dead Monday after accelerating toward Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at an intersection in Biddeford, Maine, the New York Post reported. m. Officers in green vests had surrounded a car and drawn their weapons when the driver appeared to drive directly at the agents, according to the New York Post account of witness statements.
Witness Lucas Scott, 18, said the car was put into drive and tried to hit an ICE officer. Scott added that the agent fired roughly four shots. He said he heard popping sounds and saw the agent draw his gun.
Another witness, Daniel Boucher, said he saw the driver exit the car bleeding profusely from his head. ” Graphic footage posted on social media showed a man lying by the side of the road next to a car with a bullet hole in the driver’s side of the front windshield, the Portland Press Herald reported via the New York Post.
Locals had reported an increase in ICE activity in Biddeford in recent weeks.
Resident Larry Humiston told the Portland Press Herald that agents chased men working on a roof one to two weeks earlier and that one man jumped off the roof to escape.
