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One witness told the Biddeford Gazette, external<\/span><\/a> that at around 07:20 local time, he saw lights flashing from an unmarked white SUV, and “at least two officers wearing green ICE vests”.<\/p>\n Lucas Scott, a Biddeford resident, said the agents were shouting as they surrounded a white sedan. He then heard at least four gunshots.<\/p>\n Another witness told the Associated Press (AP), external<\/span><\/a> news agency that the man who was killed lived nearby with his wife and daughter.<\/p>\n “I watched a wife fall to her knees looking at her husband’s dead body on the ground,” Mary Hayes said. <\/p>\n “I watched a little girl crying with a little pink backpack on because she’s never going to see her father again.”<\/p>\n Senator King said that Mullin, the head of DHS, had told him the man was shot after attempting to drive his car at police.<\/p>\n “He was in a vehicle – pulled out in the vehicle, and the term the secretary used was ‘weaponised’ the vehicle and was shot by an ICE agent,” King said.<\/p>\n He added that officers involved did not wear body cameras, and that officials would be investigating whether deadly force was necessary.<\/p>\n “That’s what this investigation is all about and I certainly intend to stay after it to do everything I can to be sure the investigation is as transparent and thorough as possible,” King said, according to the AP.<\/p>\n The incident draws renewed scrutiny on DHS and ICE.<\/p>\n On 7 July, an ICE officer fatally shot 52-year-old builder Lorenzo Salgado Araujo as he was driving to a construction site in Houston.<\/p>\n Federal officials later acknowledged that the Mexican man was not the intended target of the enforcement operation, but they said he had tried to run over an ICE agent.<\/p>\n Mullin took over leadership of DHS in March, replacing Kristi Noem after she was fired by US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Noem’s tenure saw fatal shootings by immigration officers of two protesters, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, both American citizens.<\/p>\n The deaths of Pretti and Good came after the Trump administration announced immigration enforcement surges in Minnesota and other states. <\/p>\n Federal officials launched a similar operation in Maine, in January, dubbed Operation Catch of the Day. <\/p>\n Civil rights organisations filed a lawsuit against alleging aggressive tactics by federal agents during enforcement surges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One witness told the Biddeford Gazette, external that at around 07:20 local time, he saw lights flashing from an unmarked white SUV, and “at least two officers wearing green ICE vests”. 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