On Monday morning, July 14, 2026, in Biddeford, Maine, a home security camera captured the sound of five gunshots as 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian national, was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer while he was in a white sedan. A photo from the scene showed multiple bullet holes in the car's windshield.

Surveillance video showed the sedan slowing down at 7:18 a.m., with ICE agents approaching the vehicle on both sides as it turned in circles for about a minute. At 7:19 a.m., an agent in a white SUV pinned Guerrero's car, and the wounded man was pulled onto the pavement.

Witness Daniel Boucher, who heard the gunshots and saw the aftermath, told CBS News, "I heard him say, 'I tried to stop.' I know that he was still cognizant because they told him to calm down."

Chellie Pingree of Maine stated 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."

Multiple law enforcement sources informed CBS News on Tuesday that federal officials are suspending most vehicle stops during immigration enforcement operations nationwide. This directive applies to ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, which primarily handles civil immigration arrests, but not to Homeland Security Investigations, which handles criminal cases. Sources described the suspension as a necessary short-term pause to review the situation.

An ICE official remarked on the incident, saying, "You never forget that. You never forget the attitude of the ICE officers, too. And the ICE officer that shot him was in shock."

The operation was reportedly conducting targeted surveillance on the last known address of an illegal alien with a final order of removal.

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