A man was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13, 2026, House Speaker Ryan Fecteau said. Rights groups identified the victim as Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26, a Colombian who worked as a delivery driver and lived in Biddeford with his wife and three-year-old daughter.
A home security camera captured the sound of five gunshots at 7:17 a.m. ET when Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, identified by some sources as a 25-year-old Colombian national, was fatally shot while in a white sedan, and a photo showed multiple bullet holes in the vehicle's windshield.
Surveillance video reviewed by investigators showed the sedan slowing at 7:18 a.m., agents approaching the car on both sides as it turned in circles for about a minute, and, more than a minute later at 7:19 a.m., an agent in a white SUV pinning the car before Guerrero was pulled out onto the pavement.
Doorbell video showed first responders treating him, and he died at the scene.
Witness Daniel Boucher said he heard Guerrero say, "I tried to stop," and said he believed Guerrero was still cognizant because officers told him to calm down; Boucher also said the ICE officer who fired appeared to be in shock.
The Department of Homeland Security said ICE agents were conducting targeted surveillance on the last known address of an individual with a final order of removal, and multiple law enforcement sources said Guerrero was not the target of that surveillance. Rep. Chellie Pingree said she had "heard on good authority, though it's not been confirmed by [DHS], that they perhaps shot the wrong person, that it was not the person they were going after."
DHS had told agents to temporarily pause most vehicle stops nationwide during immigration enforcement operations, a directive said to apply to ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations and not to Homeland Security Investigations, and Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said the decision to halt the stops was not a policy change and called it "a necessary short-term pause just to look at it and make sure everything's good."
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said, "It would be wise for DHS to have a halt in non-urgent traffic stops until we get this straightened out."
The White House confirmed that the president overturned the pause and instructed ICE to resume vehicle stops, and President Donald Trump wrote on social media, "We CANNOT give up one of ICE's most important and effective Crime fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!" The president's post was reposted by the Department of Homeland Security.
The pause followed two fatal shootings within a week and prompted the Department of Homeland Security to announce that every ICE arrest team will have at least one officer wearing a body camera, after the officers involved in both shootings were not wearing bodycams and officials said both men were unarmed and neither was the intended target of the operations that killed them.
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said, "Our #1 goal is to keep our officers safe and get criminals OFF our streets," and added, "Illegal aliens will be arrested and deported wherever they are" and "If you are here illegally, LEAVE NOW." The department said it would offer a $2,600 check to undocumented people to flee the country.
In Houston, the men in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's van told their attorney no officer was ever in the vehicle's path and that shots came from its sides.
Durán's wife and young daughter reportedly witnessed the aftermath, and the daughter was wearing pyjamas.
The shooting has pushed Immigration and Customs Enforcement back into the spotlight of the Maine Senate race and is set to put Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, on the defensive as Democrats look to oust her in November.