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.ICE SAYS OFFICER SHOT AND KILLED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO TRIED TO RAM HIM WITH CAR IN HOUSTONA man was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Maine was not the target of the arrest warrant being executed, according to Sen.Angus King’s office.
(AP Photo/Robert F.Bukaty)"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.""He had given me incorrect information," K...