In an uncanny echo of the recent past, a Mexican immigrant who had lived in Texas for 35 years and a young Colombian father halfway across the country in Maine were killed days apart in shootings at the hands of immigration agents.

While the shootings this month are still in their investigative infancy, they are a grim callback to January and the separate killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota when each encountered Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.

Within a week, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, became the third and fourth people to have been fatally wounded by federal immigration agents this year as President Donald Trump’s sweeping deportation agenda has led to immigration enforcement crackdowns resulting in not only arrests and removals, but also violence and death.

Here’s what we know about the four people killed this year by federal agents involved in immigration enforcement activities and other shootings in which agents opened fire:

The mother of three had been participating in demonstrations against the immigration enforcement surge dubbed Operation Metro Surge and stopped her burgundy SUV for a few minutes on a snowy residential Minneapolis street, obstructing the flow of traffic. When Good began pulling forward, an ICE officer standing in front of her vehicle pulled his weapon and fired at least three shots into the car, killing her.

Video of the encounter shows Pretti sought to aid a woman shoved to the ground by an immigration agent, getting pushed to the ground himself as he and others get into a physical skirmish with a group of agents before at least two eventually opened fire.

A federal agent was seen on video removing a handgun from Pretti’s waistband moments before he was killed.

ICE issued a public statement saying its officers “attempted to conduct a vehicle stop as part of a targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien” and said Salgado Araujo attempted to evade them. The agency alleges he “rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands, and weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer,” which led to an “officer firing his weapon in self-defense.”

A lawyer for two of the passengers in the van at the time of the shooting denied Salgado Araujo attempted to ram officers and disputed the officers were in danger. But no video has surfaced depicting the moment of the shooting.

In a statement issued nearly 12 hours after the incident, DHS said the federal agent fired his weapon “fearing for public safety” as the victim “attempted to flee the scene.” The department did not share details on why the officer believed Guerrero was a public safety risk.

Maine Sen. Angus King’s office said Guerrero was “NOT the target” of the immigration operation, while the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition said Guerrero was authorized to work in the US and had been issued a social security number. (CNN)

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