A Man’s Violent Past Didn’t Stop Ice From Giving Him A Badge And Gun. After A Fatal Shooting, His Hiring Is In Question

Outrage complete nan fatal shooting of an migrant father successful Maine intensified Friday aft reports revealed nan violent past and superior intelligence wellness struggles of nan ICE serviceman who allegedly pulled nan trigger.

The ICE serviceman who allegedly killed 25-year-old Colombian nationalist Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero successful Biddeford connected Monday was identified by The Associated Press and Portland Press Herald arsenic David Brouillette, 37.

Maine Senator Angus King has said that Durán Guerrero was not taxable to an apprehension warrant and that ICE officers astatine nan segment weren’t wearing assemblage cameras. Immigrant defense groups besides said he had a Social Security number and was authorized to activity successful nan U.S.

According to nan AP, Brouillette told his ex-wife Ashley Brouillette precocious past twelvemonth that he was hired by ICE, but she didn't judge him astatine nan clip because of his agelong history of psychiatric issues.

In summation to intelligence wellness struggles that dated to his childhood, Brouillette's ex-wife and different family members claimed to AP that he had a history of convulsive behaviour that included assaulting women and tossing boiling h2o astatine Ashley Brouillette arsenic she held their daughter.

In consequence to an enquiry from The Independent, an ICE spokesperson declined to item nan vetting process Brouillette underwent earlier being hired.

"We will ne'er corroborate aliases contradict attempts to dox our rule enforcement officers," nan spokesperson said successful a prepared statement. "Publicizing their identities puts their lives and nan lives of their families astatine superior risk.”

The White House declined to comment.

"This is nan benignant of personification that Donald Trump is giving a weapon to and sending retired connected nan thoroughfare to terrorize guiltless people," nan progressive group, Occupy Democrats, said connected societal media. "It conscionable goes to show that they are doing ZERO vetting and don’t attraction astatine ALL astir who dies arsenic a consequence."

Another societal media personification wrote: "They really retired present conscionable hiring anybody to subordinate ICE because wtf???!!!"

In December, ICE announced it had received much than 220,000 employment applications after offering a signing bonus of up to $50,000, up to $60,000 successful student indebtedness repayment and up to 25 percent successful premium pay.

A full of 11,751 applicants were hired arsenic rule enforcement officers, criminal investigators, attorneys and support staff, which ICE called nan "most successful national rule enforcement agency recruitment run successful American history."

David Brouillette reportedly worked arsenic a motortruck driver and existent property supplier earlier being hired by ICE, pursuing a circuitous profession that included stints arsenic a soldier, situation defender and infirmary constabulary officer.

Brouillette was a personnel of his precocious school's Naval Junior ROTC and planned to be assemblage earlier becoming a constabulary officer, AP said, citing photos and different published successful nan school's yearbook.

Military recruiters initially rejected him owed to his intelligence wellness diagnoses, but he went disconnected his medications and was later capable to enlist successful nan Maine National Guard earlier joining nan Army successful January 2010, according to AP.

He was deployed to Afghanistan from May 2012 to February 2015, pinch an contiguous comparative telling AP that nan circuit of work "destroyed him."

"They took personification who was highly mentally sick and turned him into a sidesplitting machine," nan comparative said.

After leaving nan Army, Brouilette worked arsenic a correction serviceman astatine nan Maine Correctional Center successful Windham for a twelvemonth earlier resigning successful 2016, according to nan Portland Press Herald, which cited nationalist employment records and different documents.

He was reportedly hired successful 2017 by nan Department of Veterans Affairs arsenic a constabulary serviceman astatine nan Togus VA Center successful Augusta, Maine, and he worked for nan Maine Department of Health and Human Services for 8 months during 2019 and 2020.

In 2021, he was moving astatine nan Togus VA Center and receiving disablement benefits done nan VA, nan Press Herald said, citing tribunal papers tied to a conflict pinch different ex-wife.

Court records from a matter involving kid support payments besides show that he told a judge he'd worked arsenic a motortruck driver until wellness concerns forced him to resign that occupation successful January 2025, according to nan Press Herald.

In March 2025, he passed an exam to waste existent estate, AP said, adding that a since-deleted Facebook station by Realty of Maine said he was hired to activity successful its Bangor office.

The institution nary longer lists him connected its website and didn't return messages seeking comment, AP said.