Biddeford’s mayor said this week that it’s “totally unacceptable” that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents weren’t wearing body cameras before Monday’s deadly shooting in his city.
In a Wednesday statement, Mayor Liam LaFountain said that requires immediate corrective action, noting that all Biddeford police officers are equipped with bodycams.
“The department’s annual budget is less than $10 million, and they’ve had these cameras in the field for almost a decade. The fact that ICE is swimming in billions of taxpayer dollars and can’t perform a basic function like properly equipping its people is a severe indictment,” he said.
ICE agent David Brouillette, who was hired this year by ICE, allegedly shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero as he left for work about 7 a.m. at the intersection of Pool and Hill streets, where the Colombian immigrant encountered Brouillette and other agents with ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division.
Brouillette, whose ex-wife and family identified him as the alleged shooter and spoke with the media about his history of violent behavior, fired four or five bullets, according to witness testimony and video and audio recordings, when Duran Guerrero allegedly tried to flee.
The ICE agents weren’t equipped with body cameras, for which Congress approved $20 million in funding this year, on top of more than $73 billion appropriated to the agency under the so-called Big Beautiful Bill in 2025, meaning there’s apparently no direct video evidence of what happened between Duran Guerrero and them in the moments before the shooting.
On Wednesday, Gov. Janet Mills included equipping all agents with body cameras among her proposals for reforming ICE.
An ICE spokesperson claimed this week that Duran Guerrero was in the country illegally and had a final removal order against him. But Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who previously suggested Duran Guerrero had “weaponized” his white Kia, told U.S. Sen. Angus King that Duran Guerrero wasn’t actually the target of the agents’ administrative warrant.
Benjamin Gideon, a prominent and politically connected lawyer representing Duran Guerrero’s family, said during a Thursday press conference that the 25-year-old was in the United States legally. Family and friends who spoke with the Washington Post said Duran Guerrero came here in 2023 to build a better future for his then-infant daughter.
In the aftermath of Duran Guerrero’s death, ICE has temporarily halted most traffic stops. The death of Duran Guerrero, and that of 52-year-old construction worker Lorenzo Araujo in Texas last week, happened during a traffic stop. On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump ratcheted up pressure on ICE to reverse course on the policy shift, putting him at odds with U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, who faces a heated campaign for reelection in November and pressed Mullin, the Homeland Security secretary, to stop “non-urgent” traffic stops.
Several federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are participating in the investigation, which the Colombian embassy said it will be monitoring as it stays in touch with Duran Guerrero’s family here. On Tuesday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro called the shooting murder, saying that Duran Guerrero was “killed because he was deemed an inferior being devoid of rights.”
In a Tuesday letter to Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, Maine’s congressional delegation called for him to “prioritize” a “comprehensive, transparent, and expedited investigation” into Duran Guerrero’s death.
This may be at least the 11th fatal shooting involving ICE agents since Trump’s second inauguration. That doesn’t include deaths of those in the agency’s custody. As of July 6, at least 21 people have died in immigration detention centers in 2026, on top of 33 who died last year, according to the National Immigration Project.
Earlier this year, Maine became the latest state to see a surge in ICE agents as part of the Trump administration’s Operation Catch of the Day. That surge was cut short amid a nationwide pushback against the agency’s tactics following the fatal shootings of two protesters in Minneapolis.
Of the nearly 200 detained in Maine during the January ICE surge, only 11 had criminal convictions, undercutting the Trump administration’s claim that it was targeting the “worst of the worst.”