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Updated · WMTW Portland · Jul 16
Wife of 25-Year-Old Killed by ICE Agent Speaks Publicly in Maine
Updated
Updated · WMTW Portland · Jul 16

Wife of 25-Year-Old Killed by ICE Agent Speaks Publicly in Maine

3 articles · Updated · WMTW Portland · Jul 16

Summary

  • Karolina Rojas Alvarez was set to speak Thursday in Biddeford about the death of her husband, Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent on Monday.
  • The 25-year-old Colombian was heading to work when he was shot, according to the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition, which said he was authorized to work in the United States and had a Social Security number.
  • Homeland Security said Guerrero entered the U.S. illegally in September 2023 and received a work permit in May 2025, adding that any pending asylum case would not have changed his immigration status.
  • Guerrero is survived by his wife, a 3-year-old child and his sister, who said from Colombia that the family wants the shooting clarified and justice pursued.

Insights

He had a US work permit but was deemed 'illegal.' How did this contradiction lead to a fatal shooting?
ICE claims the car was a weapon, but there's no bodycam video. What really happened on that street?