Partner of man shot by ICE agent in Biddeford posts tribute a month after his death
A month after her partner was shot and killed by a federal immigration officer, Karolina Alvarez said in a tribute on social media that she’s still struggling to adjust to life without him.
A life without holding hands and falling asleep together at night, without sharing lunch and texting each other throughout the day, she wrote on Instagram on Thursday.
“We love you and miss you,” Alvarez said in her post, written in Spanish. “Your daughter still asks for you and is still waiting for you.”
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Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, 25, was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Biddeford the morning of July 13 while driving in a neighborhood where the agency later said its agents were conducting targeted surveillance. Sen. Angus King told reporters that week that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had told him that Durán Guerrero was not the intended target.
Durán Guerrero, of Colombia, had been complying with immigration proceedings and did not have a criminal history, according to attorneys for his family.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General and the Office of the Maine Attorney General both announced they were conducting investigations into the shooting last month. Neither have shared any public updates about the investigations.
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David Brouillette, 37, of Manchester, has been identified by people who know him as the agent who shot Durán Guerrero. DHS has declined several times to name the agent involved in the shooting. Brouillette has not responded to messages seeking comment. A phone number for him was out of service Thursday.
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Attorneys for Durán Guerrero’s family said earlier this week that they are still waiting for more information, and for investigators to return several personal items that were on him when he died, like his jewelry and clothing. The family has also been unable to repatriate Durán Guerrero’s remains to Colombia, their lawyers said, because investigators also still have his legal documents.
Alvarez did not address the investigations in her tribute. She asked Durán Guerrero to continue watching over her, and to grant her and their daughter strength as they go on.
“July 13th will hurt for all of my life,” she wrote.
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