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ICE Agent Who Killed Maine Man Reportedly Has History of Violent Behavior: ‘You Should Have Your F***ing Throats Cut’ 46%
By Michael Luciano57%
7/17/2026, 12:43:16 AM
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The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed a man in Maine has a history of mental illness and violent behavior, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.
On Monday, 25-year-old Colombian immigrant Joan Sebastian Guerrero was fatally shot by an ICE agent during a traffic stop.
His father said he was living in the U.S. legally.
The Department of Homeland Security said agents were monitoring a home in Biddeford, Maine, where they believed a resident was in the country illegally.
DHS did not say if Guerrero was the man they were looking for.
Guerrero exited the residence and got into a vehicle.
The department claims that Guerrero “attempted to flee the scene” and that agents were “fearing for public safety,” so they shot him.
Agents present were not wearing body cameras.
No footage has emerged that confirms the DHS account of the shooting.
On Thursday, the AP reported that the shooter was 37-year-old David Brouillette .
According to records and witnesses in the report, he has a history of mental illness since childhood and violent behavior, so much so, that his ex-wife did not believe ICE had hired him when he told her.
In fact, she believed he was having a mental health crisis:
Brouillette, 37, told his ex-wife Ashley Brouillette late last year that he had been hired by ICE.
She said that because of his long history of psychiatric issues, she thought he was having a mental health episode and she didn’t believe him.
She didn’t realize he’d been telling the truth until this week, when videos began circulating online of the moments surrounding the shooting.
The agent and his ex-wife married in 2007, but divorced in 2009 after he became physically violent toward her, she said.
“According to Ashley Brouillette, he once threw boiling water at her while she was holding their child — an incident her mother Avis Collins also recounted,” the report added.
David Brouillette joined ICE in late 2025 and around that time reportedly left a disturbing voicemail on Ashley Brouillette’s phone, in which he stated that she and her female relatives should die.
“And all of you should have your f——–g throats cut,” the voicemail said.
“Yeah, you should.
Am I threatening that I’m gonna do that?
Nope.
Nope.
But do I think that you should have your f——-g throats cuts?
Or should have had them cut?
Yep.”
The AP noted that David Brouillette does not appear to have a criminal record in Maine, but family court records indicate some troubling behavior.
A second ex-wife, whom the AP did not identify because she fears retaliation, alleged he stalked her and attacked his daughter.
“The ex-wife — whom the AP is not identifying because she fears retaliation — alleged that he had stalked and harassed her and physically and verbally abused his daughter, according to multiple requests for temporary protection orders,” the AP reported.
“Brouillette tackled his teenage daughter and smashed spaghetti in her hair, and during another outburst, he dragged his daughter around the house as she cried, she said.”
David Brouillette served in Afghanistan as a member of the U.S.
Army, an experience that one immediate relative said ruined him.
“Afghanistan destroyed him — trained him to be a killing monster, a machine.
They took someone who was extremely mentally ill and turned him into a killing machine,” the relative told the AP.
After serving in Afghanistan, records show Brouillette became a police officer at a Veterans Affairs center in Maine.
The AP reported that David Brouillette told associates he had acted in self-defense.
DHS, meanwhile, would neither confirm nor deny the identity of the agent and said in a statement, “The ICE officer in question has nearly a decade of federal law enforcement experience with required training including use of force training.”
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