Two people have been shot in Portland by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, one day after a woman was fatally shot in her car by members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The FBI’s Portland office said it was investigating a shooting that happened around 2.15pm, the Associated Press reported.
Just minutes later police received information that a man who had been shot was asking for help in an area nearby. Officers responded to find the two people with gunshot wounds and determined they were injured in the shooting with federal agents, the news agency reported.
Portland City Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney said the two people were alive as far as she knew. They were taken to hospital, but their condition is unknown.
“As far as we know both of these individuals are still alive and we are hoping for more positive updates throughout the afternoon,” she said.
Portland police secured the shooting scene and the area where the two injured were found people pending investigation. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and the city council called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to end all operations in the city until a full investigation is completed.
“Just one day after the horrific violence in Minnesota at the hands of federal agents, our community here in Portland is now grappling with another deeply troubling incident,” Wilson said in a statement.
The Portland shooting comes a day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis.
Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, was shot in the head in front of a relative, in what federal officials have said it was an act of self-defense.
Footage captured by witnesses and posted online show an officer approaching a vehicle stopped in the middle of the road. The officer tells the driver to open the door and grabs the handle. The vehicle begins to pull forward and a different officer, standing in front of the vehicle, fires at least two shots at close range.
It is not clear whether the officer is hit by the vehicle, which speeds into two parked cars before stopping, nor is it clear what occured in the build-up to the incident.
Good was US-born citizen and mom of three. Her ex-husband said she had just dropped off her 6-year-old son at school and was driving home when she encountered ICE agents on a residential street.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the vehicle was part of a protests that had been harassing agents and “impeding operations” that morning, AP reported.
Noem said agents had freed one of their vehicles that was stuck in snow and were leaving the area when the incident occurred. This has not been confirmed by video footage.
