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

Mullin told King the victim was not the warrant’s target after initially giving him a different account.

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Sen. Angus King’s office said the man fatally shot by an ICE agent in Biddeford was not the target of the arrest warrant, after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin corrected an earlier account to King. King called for a transparent investigation as authorities investigate the shooting.

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Homeland Security secretary who gave King an initial account and later corrected it

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Angus S. King, Jr.
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Maine senator pressing for an investigation into the fatal shooting

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Susan M. Collins
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Maine senator who called for an impartial investigation

Maine governor who said state police were cooperating with the investigation

ALSO MENTIONED  Ronald Reagan, Former president referenced by King in a quoted motto

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