A man who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Biddeford Monday has been officially identified.
The Maine Office of the Attorney General has officially identified him as 25-year-old Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero.
His death remains under investigation.
Guerrero, originally from Columbia, came to the U.S. in 2023 to build a better future for his young daughter, a close friend told the Washington Post.
Six bullets were fired as Guerrero allegedly tried to flee from agents. The ICE agents have not been publicly identified, but have been placed on administrative leave.
The agent that fatally shot the Columbian man allegedly had joined the agency within the past year, according to a report from The Atlantic magazine.
In a Monday evening statement, an ICE spokesperson said that Guerrero was in the country illegally and had a final removal order against him. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who previously suggested earlier in the day that Guerrero had “weaponized” his white Kia, told independent U.S. Sen. Angus King that Guerrero wasn’t actually the target of the agents’ administrative warrant.
The ICE agents weren’t equipped with body cameras, for which Congress approved $20 million in funding, meaning there’s apparently no direct video evidence of what happened between Guerrero and them in the moments before the shooting.
BDN reporter Christopher Burns contributed to this report.
