ICE identifies man agents fatally shot in Maine as Joan Sebastian Guerrero | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
The man killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Maine on Monday has been identified as Joan Sebastian Guerrero. based on to local news sales points.
An immigration agent shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday morning, after reportedly crashing his car.
There was ICE on Tuesday reportedly He gave orders to his agents stop According to media outlets such as CNN and Daily Wire, most vehicles are being stopped for now.
Many of the circumstances of the case remained unclear.
Immigrant rights activists said Guerrero, who is married with a young child, has a social security number and a permit to work in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, did not respond to a question about his immigration status.
Meanwhile, Colombia’s US embassy he said in a statement It said Monday it was “deeply saddened by the death of a Colombian national in Biddeford, Maine” and requested “information and clarification” from DHS “about the circumstances surrounding this deplorable death.”
An eyewitness told the Portland Press Herald that Guerrero’s daughter was still with Bluey, the pajama-wearing children’s show character. when his father was killed.
DHS offered little additional information about the killing in its statement about
It was unclear Tuesday morning whether this was a reference to the man later identified as Guerrero.
The statement continued: “ICE law enforcement attempted to stop the vehicle. The vehicle attempted to flee the scene and an officer, fearing for public safety, fired his weapon. The driver of the vehicle was shot and emergency services were immediately notified. He died from his injuries.”
The office of Maine U.S. Senator Angus King said DHS informed him that Guerrero was not the subject of the arrest warrant identified in the department’s statement.
Press Herald and Maine WTW The news station reported Guerrero’s identity, attributing it to a neighbor and a family friend, respectively. The New York Times also reported Guerrero’s ID, courtesy of King’s office.
Woman who witnessed the attack he told the Bangor Daily News The agents crashed into Guerrero’s sedan and then surrounded him, guns drawn. They demanded that he get out of the car, and when he tried to escape, at least one agent opened fire. Another witness he told the Press Herald Guerrero was speaking as agents removed the body from the car and said: “I tried to stop.”
Guerrero is the 11th person shot and killed by federal immigration officers since Donald Trump is inaugurated for his second presidency in early 2025.
He is also the fifth person killed by ice while driving.
Guerrero’s killing Monday also marked the second time ICE agents killed someone in a week. On July 7, agents in Houston fatally shot Mexican Lorenzo Salgado Araujo while searching for a different person.
The killings of Salgado and Guerrero were met with protests reminiscent of those seen after U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed by immigration officers in Minneapolis in separate cases in January.
