“Our team is monitoring this situation very closely and will provided updates as we learn more,” former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, who was expected to attend a demonstration in Biddeford later Monday, tweeted. “My heart is with Biddeford – and with all Mainers.”

“The Maine Solidarity Fund has been providing direct assistance to Maine’s Black and Brown immigrant communities as they face arrest, detention, and deportation from ICE,” former Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Nirav Shah wrote in a post. “If you can, please consider giving in support of their work today: mainesolidarity.org.”

“History teaches us what happens when governments empower armed agents to operate with sweeping authority, limited transparency and too little accountability,” social worker Paige Loud posted.

“ICE is dangerously out of control and embarrassment to our country,” former Capitol Hill staffer Jordan Wood said. “Abolish it and replace it with an agency that answers to the people.”

“In the Senate, I’ll vote to hold ICE accountable and finally provide accountability for murdering people,” Maine Beer Company co-founder Dan Kleban said. “This s*** has to stop.”

“I’ve seen them in their tinted black Camaros, circling the bus stop and looking for people,” said another neighbor who asked not to be named.

“ICE has shown it cannot operate in our communities without harm,” he said. “It’s time to #AbolishICE and build something that treats every person with dignity.”

In a separate social media post, District 2 Councilor Wes Pelletier said, “We must destroy the deportation machine and prosecute everyone involved.”

According to the statement, Biddeford Police’s only involvement in the ongoing investigation is scene security.

“Next door to me is a bus stop for all ages of kids,” she said. “They’re absolutely terrified, and the parents are terrified too.”

The couple has called the ICE hotline four or five times since February. They were initially proud to hear that Biddeford Police were not going to work with ICE, but now are disappointed in their community leaders for not doing more to prevent incidents like this.

“There are no words to express the tumult of emotion that I feel” Bullock said, tearfully.

“He said, ‘I tried to stop,’” Boucher said hours after the shooting.

Another witness who lives near the intersection said she initially thought the shots were from a drive-by shooting, but then saw agents in vests trying to stop an out-of-control car.

“I don’t know who this man was, but he didn’t deserve to be executed in the street,” said Em, who asked to be identified only by her first name because she fears ICE.

However, the department did notify parents that “out of an abundance of caution” it would not visit Clifford Park as scheduled. The park is located off Pool Street.

Reporters have been taking phone calls and recording packages for televised news segments, waiting for a briefing to begin, but so far no officials have showed up. The general consensus is: No one is leaving until they get more information.

“I am so deeply disturbed and angry,” Pingree, whose 1st District covers Biddeford and southern Maine, said. “I, of course, need to know all of the answers here.”

She rattled off questions she has, including whether officers were pursuing someone with a criminal record, if it was a traffic stop, if the officers were wearing body cameras and why the person was shot.

“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?”

Spokespeople for U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, the lone Republican in the delegation, and Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, acknowledged a reporter’s message Monday morning but had not yet shared comments from Maine’s senators.

The same was true for U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat whose 2nd District does not include Biddeford but rather the northern half of Maine.

“We aren’t weighing in (until) more information is available,” a King spokesperson texted a Press Herald reporter.

“It’s really sad,” Malloch added.

Andrew McCormack, with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maine, said the office is aware that the FBI is on scene but declined to provide further details.

A spokesperson for the Office of the Maine Attorney General said information will be shared “when timing is appropriate.”

As he turned to look at the commotion, Scott said he saw an agent with their weapon drawn, yelling at a driver who appeared to move their vehicle toward the officer.

“The car was put into drive and was trying to hit the ICE officer,” Scott said.

The agent then fired about four shots, Scott said.

“I just heard the popping, but I did see him draw his gun,” Scott said.