Trump administration orders ICE to suspend most vehicle stops after 2 deadly shootings
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Footage from a security camera captured Monday’s shooting during an immigration enforcement operation in the city of Biddeford, Maine. The incident marked the second time in a week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents used deadly force and at least the ninth death since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown
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Immigrant rights groups are demanding answers and planning more protests Tuesday over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer’s fatal shooting of a Maine driver. (AP Production: Marissa Duhaney)
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A federal officer shot and killed a driver during an immigration enforcement operation in Biddeford, Maine. People gathered Tuesday at a makeshift memorial for Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. (AP Video shot by Rodrique Ngowi)
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Community leaders and organizers rallied to demand accountability after an ICE agent fatally shot a motorist in Biddeford, Maine on Monday. (AP video: Rodrique Ngowi and Patrick Whittle)
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Footage from a security camera captured the shooting Monday during an immigration enforcement operation in the city of Biddeford. The incident marked the second time in a week that ICE used deadly force and at least the ninth death since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown
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The shooting of a Colombian man in Maine by ICE agents happened one block from his apartment building. AP’s Patrick Whittle shows the scene. (AP Video: Rodrique Ngowi)
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A man yells at a woman working security near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty)
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This undated photo provided by the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition shows Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Monday, July 13, 2026. (Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition
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Protesters gather near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty) CORRECTION: Corrects ID to Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero NOT Joan Sebastian Guerrero
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Protesters gather near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty)
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Dr. Nirav Shah, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, attends a protest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty) CORRECTION: Corrects ID to Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero NOT Joan Sebastian Guerrero
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Footage from a security camera captured Monday’s shooting during an immigration enforcement operation in the city of Biddeford, Maine. The incident marked the second time in a week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents used deadly force and at least the ninth death since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown
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Immigrant rights groups are demanding answers and planning more protests Tuesday over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer’s fatal shooting of a Maine driver. (AP Production: Marissa Duhaney)
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A federal officer shot and killed a driver during an immigration enforcement operation in Biddeford, Maine. People gathered Tuesday at a makeshift memorial for Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. (AP Video shot by Rodrique Ngowi)
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Community leaders and organizers rallied to demand accountability after an ICE agent fatally shot a motorist in Biddeford, Maine on Monday. (AP video: Rodrique Ngowi and Patrick Whittle)
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Footage from a security camera captured the shooting Monday during an immigration enforcement operation in the city of Biddeford. The incident marked the second time in a week that ICE used deadly force and at least the ninth death since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown
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The shooting of a Colombian man in Maine by ICE agents happened one block from his apartment building. AP’s Patrick Whittle shows the scene. (AP Video: Rodrique Ngowi)
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A man yells at a woman working security near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty)
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A man yells at a woman working security near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty)
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This undated photo provided by the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition shows Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Monday, July 13, 2026. (Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition
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This undated photo provided by the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition shows Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Monday, July 13, 2026. (Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition
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Protesters gather near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty) CORRECTION: Corrects ID to Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero NOT Joan Sebastian Guerrero
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Protesters gather near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty) CORRECTION: Corrects ID to Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero NOT Joan Sebastian Guerrero
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Protesters gather near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty)
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Protesters gather near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty)
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Dr. Nirav Shah, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, attends a protest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty) CORRECTION: Corrects ID to Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero NOT Joan Sebastian Guerrero
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Dr. Nirav Shah, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, attends a protest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty) CORRECTION: Corrects ID to Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero NOT Joan Sebastian Guerrero
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BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Trump administration officials told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings within a week, people familiar with the decision said Tuesday
The policy change came after an ICE officer shot and killed a Colombian driver Monday in Maine and a week after one shot and killed a motorist in Houston, renewing criticism of the agency’s enforcement tactics that were widely condemned last winter after the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota
In Florida on Tuesday, a third man in roughly a week died during an encounter with immigration officers. This time, a 28-year-old man was killed after he was hit by a tractor trailer while running from immigration and other federal officers, authorities said
The suspension of vehicle stops allows room for exceptions when executing a criminal warrant or working with partner agencies, according to a person who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive law enforcement operations. Matthew Felling, a spokesperson for Maine Sen. Angus King, said the senator’s office was also told by the Department of Homeland Security that ICE was suspending stops
Hundreds of people in Maine protested Tuesday over the fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian national
A man yells at a woman working security near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty)
Local residents walk by a makeshift memorial to the victim of a shooting involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Tuesday, July 14, 2026 in Biddeford, Maine. /Robert F. Bukaty)
DHS said Monday that an officer, “fearing for public safety,” shot and killed Durán Guerrero while officers were watching the home of someone they believed was in the U.S. illegally and facing a final order of removal from the country. It said in a post on X that when ICE tried to stop a car driven by someone who came from the home, the person attempted to flee in the vehicle and the officer fired
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That was a shift from how King earlier described the encounter, when he said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the officer opened fire after the man tried to use his vehicle as a weapon. King said Mullin told him the officers were trying to serve an arrest warrant, but not for the man who was shot
DHS, which oversees ICE, didn’t respond to an email seeking clarity on what led to the shooting
In a scathing post on X, outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro called the shooting a targeted killing “at the hands of the U.S. government.”
Petro, who has openly quarreled with U.S. President Donald Trump, urged Trump to provide an explanation and accused ICE officers of treating Durán Guerrero as “an inferior being without rights.”
The shooting also sparked outrage in Maine, where hundreds of protesters gathered Tuesday outside an ICE detention center in Scarborough, just up the coast between Biddeford and Portland
“These people are killers and they must leave our state now,” organizer Todd Chretien told the crowd
Protesters gather near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. /Robert F. Bukaty)
Maine’s congressional delegation on Tuesday demanded a “comprehensive, transparent, and expedited investigation.”
Questions surround the shooting
Durán Guerrero’s shooting marked at least the ninth time ICE has used deadly force since Trump began his immigration crackdown
Photos showed bullet holes in Durán Guerrero’s car windshield, but the officers involved in the shooting didn’t have body cameras, leaving many questions. Among them are how close the officer was to the vehicle when they fired, whether officers told Durán Guerrero to stop, and why ICE believes he had put the public in danger
“We are always evaluating our procedures to keep our officers safe and criminals off our streets. We will not disclose or discuss law enforcement tactics,” an ICE spokesperson said in a statement
Border Czar Tom Homan told reporters Tuesday that the investigation needs to play out
“If officers acted inappropriately or illegally, they’ll be held accountable,” he said
Maine’s attorney general’s office, which noted that it’s working with federal agencies to investigate, said initial statements suggest the driver was trying to flee in the direction of the officer, whose name hasn’t been released and who was placed on leave
Blood is seen on the pavement near the scene of a shooting involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Monday, July 13, 2026 in Biddeford, Maine. /Robert F. Bukaty)
The state’s other senator, Republican Susan Collins, said Mullin told her that DHS’ Office of Inspector General is investigating in cooperation with the FBI
Democrats seeking to unseat Collins in November sought Tuesday to connect her with ICE’s methods, which have drawn public scrutiny and derision. Collins later said in a statement that although ICE needs to improve, eliminating the agency would make the nation less safe
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who is vying for Collins’ seat, called the ICE officers at the shooting “thugs” during a vigil Tuesday evening in Lewiston
“That agency is broken and we need to go back to a time where the rule of law united all of us regardless of the politics,” she told the crowd
Video shows the shooting’s aftermath
According to neighbors and public records, Guerrero lived in an apartment about 150 feet (46 meters) from where his car came to a rest outside an apartment building across the street from a pawnshop and laundromat
Video from a nearby business’ security camera obtained by the AP shows a white car slowly approaching an intersection before making several circles. A law enforcement SUV blocks its path and two officers open the driver’s door and drag out a limp body
It isn’t clear from the video when the shots were fired
Daniel Boucher said he heard a “pop, pop, pop” and ran to the intersection
“His face was bloody. His head was bloody,” Boucher said. “I clearly heard the victim say, ‘I tried to stop.’”
Boucher said the officer who shot Durán Guerrero walked close to him
“He looked at me and said, ‘He tried to run me over,’ or something to that effect,” Boucher said. “I don’t remember his exact words.”
A demonstrator fights back tears at an anti-ICE rally after a man was shot and killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday, July 13, 2026, in Biddeford, Maine. /Robert F. Bukaty)
Durán Guerrero is survived by his wife and young daughter
Two advocacy groups — the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! — said Durán Guerrero was authorized to work in the U.S
Neighbors say Durán Guerrero was a friendly and familiar face even though they rarely chatted because he didn’t appear to speak English
Sadie Dilboy and Cory Poulin, who owns the laundromat near the intersection, said they saw Durán Guerrero all the time
Claudia Morton, who often waved to Durán Guerrero, was distraught. “The whole world should be crying,” she said
Brook reported from New Orleans and Sisak from New York. Associated Press reporters Astrid Suarez in Bogota, Colombia, John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, and Hallie Golden in Seattle contributed
PATRICK WHITTLE
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REBECCA SANTANA
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