Immigration Officer Shoots Colombian Man in Maine After Vehicle Attempted to Flee

An immigration officer fatally shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian national, during a vehicle stop in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday. Biddeford lies roughly 15 miles southwest of Portland. The shooting marked the ninth death during immigration operations since the start of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.

At least four of the nine deaths involved people in vehicles. One occurred last week in Houston, Texas, where Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national, was shot while driving his crew to a worksite. Earlier cases include Ruben Ray Martinez, a 23-year-old U.S.

Citizen killed during a March 2025 traffic stop in South Texas, and Renee Good, a mother of three shot in January while driving through a Minneapolis residential neighborhood. Administration officials directed immigration officers to suspend most vehicle stops after the Texas and Maine shootings. U.S.

Sen. Susan Collins urged DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Tuesday to end all non-urgent vehicle stops. DHS stated that the officer in Maine fired because the vehicle attempted to flee the scene, threatening public safety.

Maine U.S. Sen. Angus King said Mullin told him the man tried to use the vehicle as a weapon against officers. The department issued its statement nearly 12 hours after the shooting. Maine’s Office of the Attorney General announced it would investigate the Biddeford shooting in coordination with federal authorities.

In the Houston case, Rep. Sylvia Garcia said accounts from men in the vehicle with Salgado Araujo conflicted with the DHS version, claiming officers stood on the passenger side and fired through an open window. Hundreds of protesters gathered near an ICE facility in Scarborough, Maine, on Tuesday.

Democratic state Sen. Mattie Daughtry told the crowd the incident should never happen again in Biddeford or elsewhere in the country.