Susan Collins is now tied to a case that turned a routine traffic stop into a fatal shooting in Biddeford this week. David Brouillette, an ICE agent, was identified as the officer who shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in a vehicle about 7 a.m. at Pool and Hill streets.
That identification answers the first question the public had after federal officials withheld the officer’s name. It also places a name on a shooting that left Guerrero’s wife and young daughter behind, according to Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine.
Biddeford traffic stop
David Brouillette’s role in the shooting matters because the encounter happened during a traffic stop and the ICE agents had no body cameras. Without that footage, the public record has to be pieced together from statements, employment records, and competing accounts of what Guerrero was doing when the shots were fired.
Federal officials have refused to identify or share any information about the officer who killed Guerrero. The Maine attorney general’s office is carrying out its own parallel investigation and has declined to comment, leaving state and federal review on separate tracks while the shooting remains under scrutiny.
Ashley Brouillette, David Brouillette’s ex-wife, said he called her shortly after the shooting and asked her to “lie for him” and to “cover for his character.” Ashley Brouillette also described him as “unusually calm” during that call, a detail that adds a personal account to a case otherwise shaped by official silence.
ICE, Guerrero, and the warrant
ICE said Guerrero was in the country illegally and had a final removal order. Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine said Guerrero had authorization to work in the United States and had been issued a Social Security number.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told U.S. Sen. Angus King that Guerrero was not the target of the agents’ administrative warrant. That leaves the basis for the stop central to the case: if the warrant did not name Guerrero as the target, then the encounter that ended in his death turns on what agents were authorized to do and how far that authority was carried out in the car at Pool and Hill streets.
The record around Brouillette’s career is now part of the public picture too. Employment records show that he was hired by the Togus VA Police Department in March 2017, worked at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham from Nov. 30 2015 to August 2016, and had two brief stints with the volunteer fire department in Manchester, where the Portland Press Herald reported he was removed after shouting and refusing to follow a supervisor’s orders.
ICE has temporarily halted most traffic stops after Guerrero’s death and the death of Lorenzo Araujo in Texas last week. President Donald Trump increased pressure on ICE on Wednesday morning to reverse course, keeping the agency’s stop-and-search tactics under political scrutiny while the Maine attorney general’s parallel investigation continues.
The next real test is not a press statement but the evidence gap: what exactly happened during the traffic stop that led David Brouillette to shoot Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero?
