Maine ICE shooting victim was not target of arrest warrant, Sen. King's office says after earlier DHS account

A man fatally shot by an ICE agent in Maine on Monday was not the intended target of the arrest warrant federal agents were executing, Sen. Angus King's office said, marking a shift from what the senator had told reporters hours earlier after speaking with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. In an interview with Fox News, King, I-Maine, confirmed that Mullin later informed the senator the "victim was not the target of the warrant." "When I first talked to him, he said the person was the target of the warrant. He called me back. He initiated a call to me to say he had learned subsequently that he was not the target of the warrant," King said. "So he corrected the information he had." King had said earlier Monday afternoon that Mullin told him the man who was killed in Biddeford, a coastal city roughly 15 miles southwest of Portland, was the target of an immigration enforcement operation and had been ordered to leave the country. "About 20 minutes ago, I talked to Secretary Markwayne [Mullin] of the Department of Homeland Security about the incident in Biddeford," King told reporters Monday afternoon. "The individual who has been killed is a male in his 20s. That's all I know about him," King continued. "He had been given an order to leave the country. He was in a vehicle -- pulled out in the vehicle, and the term the secretary used was 'weaponized' the vehicle and was shot by an ICE agent." King said at the time that, based on what Mullin had told him, the man who was shot was the target of the immigration enforcement operation. "He had given me incorrect information," King told Fox News. "Once he learned it was incorrect, he let me know which I respect." In a statement to Fox News Digital, an ICE spokesperson said that agents were 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," they said. "The driver of the vehicle was struck, and emergency services were immediately contacted. He passed away from his injuries." "The Biddeford Police Department and FBI responded to the scene," the spokesperson continued. "DHS OIG has been notified and like all discharge of firearms this will be investigated. This is a developing situation, and we will update the public when more information is available." Earlier on Monday, King said in a press conference that he pressed Mullin for a "full, transparent and open investigation" into the fatal shooting, which he said would be led by the FBI because it involved a federal operation. "What I said to the Secretary was, we want a full, transparent and open investigation of this matter," King said. "And one of the problems is apparently -- and again, everything I'm saying is what I know now, certain facts may come out -- but apparently there are no cameras. Body cameras were not on the agents. So we have no video evidence of what occurred in this case." King said Mullin committed to him that the investigation would be fair and transparent. "But my motto, as with Ronald Reagan, is trust but verify," King said. In a statement, Collins said the FBI is investigating. "The shooting in Biddeford requires a full and impartial investigation of what happened," Collins said.