Reaction from the Maine political world came pouring in after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a man Monday morning in Biddeford.

The state’s two U.S. senators, Susan Collins and Angus King, shared notably different amounts of information in the hours after shooting. Collins said little as the lone Republican member of Maine’s congressional delegation. King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, told reporters he spoke with the homeland security secretary by phone to learn more about what happened.

The shooting occurred sometime after 7 a.m. Monday near the intersection of Hill and Pool streets in downtown Biddeford. Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey’s office said a federal immigration agent fatally shot a man who had “attempted to flee in a vehicle in the direction of the officer.”

Immigrant rights organizations said a 26-year-old man from Colombia whose name has not been released died in the shooting. According to Presente! Maine, the man was authorized to work in the U.S. and had a Social Security number. A neighbor identified him as Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

Protesters gathered near the scene Monday and later tried to enter Collins’ district office in Biddeford. The deadly incident occurred during a high-profile U.S. Senate race in Maine, in which support for ICE has been a key campaign question.

Here’s how major Maine political figures have reacted.

U.S. SEN. SUSAN COLLINS

Collins, who sought to take credit for the end of the high-profile ICE operation that President Donald Trump’s administration carried out in Maine in January, put out a brief statement Monday afternoon that said the shooting in Biddeford “requires a full and impartial investigation of what happened.”

Then, later that day, Collins said she too had been in touch with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who told her the investigation into the shooting will be conducted by the Boston office of the DHS Inspector General, along with the FBI.

In June, Collins voted to pass a roughly $70 billion Republican-backed budget bill to fund ICE and Customs and Border Protection through 2029.

About two dozen demonstrators showed up to her district office on Main Street in Biddeford after the shooting, chanting “vote her out.” They marched into the office’s entryway as a crowd of several hundred outside shouted “ICE out now!”

Collins, who is seeking a sixth term in November, defended her vote for ICE funding in a statement through her office, noting the money came with additional accountability measures for agents. These included $20 million for expanded use of body-worn cameras, $2 million for de-escalation training, and $20 million for increased oversight of detention facilities, her office noted.

“The work that ICE and Border Patrol do goes far beyond immigration enforcement to help protect our country. More than a quarter of ICE’s annual appropriated budget is for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which is tasked with combating cartels, human smuggling, child exploitation, forced labor, and investigating international financial crimes,” a spokesperson said. “In Maine, Border Patrol does critical work to prevent dangerous and illegal weapons, drugs, and other contraband from entering our country.”

However, the officers who shot the 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford were not wearing body-worn cameras, according to King.

U.S. SEN. ANGUS KING

King shared more details while speaking with reporters around noon Monday at the Portland International Jetport. King said he spoke by phone with Mullin about the Biddeford shooting and learned the FBI will lead the investigation.

King said Mullin, a Trump ally and former senator from Oklahoma, told him the man who was killed was in his 20s and had orders to leave the country. Mullin later confirmed that the man was not actually the target.

The ICE agents involved also were not wearing body cameras. King said Mullin told him they were still being distributed across the county and had apparently not made it to Biddeford yet.

“What I said to the secretary was, ‘We want a full, transparent and open investigation of this matter,'” King said, adding agents “should have been having body cameras two years ago when this whole thing started.”

He said the investigation should determine what the victim did with his vehicle and whether it justified the use of deadly force. King said Mullin told him the man who was shot “weaponized his vehicle,” but witness accounts have so far painted different pictures of what happened.

Mullin did not indicate how many ICE agents were currently in Maine. King said he was focused on this incident specifically but would follow up about what ICE is doing and whom they are targeting.

He said he was concerned about what occurred during the ICE surge dubbed “Operation Catch of the Day” in January and whether similar activity will occur in Maine again.

U.S. REP. CHELLIE PINGREE

Pingree, a Democrat whose District includes Biddeford, said in a Monday morning video posted to Instagram that she had similar questions.

“More than anything else, I want to know, why are you in Maine?” Pingree said, directing that to ICE agents. “Every report we hear is about somebody being picked up who legally was here, and is this going to be another one of those stories?”

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U.S. REP. JARED GOLDEN

A day after the Biddeford shooting, U.S. Rep. Jared Golden released his first statement to share that he spoke that morning with Mullin about how an inspector general and the FBI are investigating.

“That’s a good thing,” said Golden, a Democrat whose district does not include Biddeford. “As with any deadly use of force by law enforcement, what we need now is (a) thorough, independent investigation that establishes the facts necessary for accountability.”

Golden said it was unfortunate that, according to officials, ICE officers at the scene were not wearing body cameras. He noted that he supported funding for them earlier this year but that “adoption has been slow.”

“DHS needs to make this a priority,” Golden said. “Mainers are understandably scared and shocked by this painful loss of life. My heart goes out to all those who are hurting, and I urge Mainers to take care of one another and stay safe.”

Though he has been known to vote with Republicans at times, Golden opposed the nearly $70 billion budget bill from Republicans that funded ICE and Customs and Border Protection for the next three years, arguing the agencies are “already able to cover their costs well into the future.”

GOV. JANET MILLS

Mills, a Democrat, put out a brief statement Monday morning saying she had been “briefed on the fatal shooting in Biddeford this morning involving federal law enforcement.”

The governor added that state police, the attorney general’s office, the chief medical examiner’s office and federal officials are working to “determine the facts of what occurred this morning.”

Mills spoke more in a Monday evening social media post. She referred to the update from Mullin that the victim was not the intended target of the operation.

“This development makes this tragedy even more disturbing and infuriating, and it underscores the reckless and haphazard manner in which immigration enforcement operations are being conducted in Maine and across the country,” Mills said. “This has to end.”

DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE HANNAH PINGREE

Former Maine House Speaker Hannah Pingree, who is running for governor, said a “life was lost in Biddeford this morning in a shooting involving ICE.”

“I’m monitoring closely and will share updates as they come,” Pingree wrote on social media. “Every Mainer deserves safety and security in their own community, along with transparency and a thorough, independent investigation into what happened.”

REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE BOBBY CHARLES

Charles, the Republican gubernatorial nominee from Leeds and a former federal official, said in a statement Monday afternoon that “Maine deserves the truth about what happened.”

“We don’t have full details yet, and anyone claiming to know exactly what happened is getting ahead of the facts. What I do know is this: federal agents put their lives on the line every day, often in split-second, dangerous situations, and if an agent’s life was threatened, he had every right under the law to protect himself, just as any Maine citizen would,” Charles said. “What happened in the moments before that decision was made is now for Maine’s Attorney General and the FBI to determine, thoroughly and transparently.”

Charles, who drew criticism from the left on the campaign trail for his rhetoric about Somali American lawmakers, added that “we also welcome, wholeheartedly, every lawful immigrant who comes here to work, to assimilate and to build a life under our laws.”

He said he believes “in due process, the presumption of innocence and letting facts, not politics, drive our conclusions.”

“That applies to everyone involved,” Charles said. “Maine is one of the most law-abiding states in the country, and we owe our law enforcement — local, state and federal — our respect and our support.”

INDEPENDENT GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE RICK BENNETT

Bennett, a state senator from Oxford, called for an independent investigation into the shooting.

“The news out of Biddeford is deeply disturbing,” he said. “A young man is dead, a family is grieving, and a whole community is shaken. We need answers now.”

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR SENATE

Numerous Democratic candidates who are running to replace Platner on the U.S. Senate ballot by winning the nomination at a special party convention later this month put out statements Monday that reiterated past calls for ICE to either get abolished or sharply restructured.

FORMER GOV. PAUL LEPAGE

LePage, the Republican who is running for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, said in a social media post Monday afternoon that the “events which took place in Biddeford this morning remind us all to remain calm and allow for a full, transparent and fair investigation before rushing to judgement without all of the details.”

“The Department of Homeland Security has indicated they will pursue a transparent investigation. Our men and women at all levels of law enforcement are often in situations where they have to make split-second decisions in rapidly changing situations,” LePage said. “In any incident like this, law enforcement, and the deceased, deserve a fair process that carefully examines all of the facts. Any loss of life is tragic but anyone who would seek to politicize this incident to try and perpetuate illegal immigration is wrong.”

MAINE HOUSE SPEAKER RYAN FECTEAU

Fecteau, a Biddeford Democrat, was the first to confirm Monday morning that a federal agent fatally shot the man before issuing a statement a few minutes before 12:30 p.m. that said ICE “was involved” in the shooting.

“Our community is shaken by this incident. We are heartbroken that someone lost their life. We deserve answers about why lethal force was used and why an operation was being carried out in our streets,” Fecteau said. “I also know that our immigrant neighbors are particularly impacted by this violence. I want them to know that their elected leaders, their neighbors and their state is here for them.”

The Maine shooting comes less than a week after an ICE agent fatally shot a Mexican man in Houston, setting off protests in Texas and reportedly marking at least the 10th person whom federal immigration agents have fatally shot nationwide during Trump’s second term.

Monday’s shooting also came amid advocates and residents continuing to report increased ICE activity in Biddeford and other Maine cities in recent months. In January, the Trump administration targeted Maine with a ramped-up ICE operation that saw about 200 people arrested, the majority of whom had no criminal convictions or pending charges.

Staff writers Sophie Burchell, Dylan Tusinski, Morgan Womack and Gillian Graham contributed to this report.