The FBI will not open a civil-rights investigation into the killing of Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, a Colombian man fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13. [1]
Duran Guerrero was shot while in a vehicle. Investigators documented four bullet holes in the driver's-side windshield. [1]
Tom Homan, the administration's border czar, said the officer involved "may not have been properly vetted." [1] The remark stands out because it came from a senior official responsible for the administration's immigration enforcement, not from a critic of the agency. [1]
With the FBI standing down, two reviews remain: an inquiry by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General, and an investigation by the Maine Attorney General. [1]
A decision not to pursue a federal civil-rights case does not by itself resolve whether the shooting was justified. That question now sits with those two offices. [1] For Duran Guerrero's family, the FBI's decision closes one of the avenues through which federal accountability might have come, leaving the DHS inspector general and Maine's attorney general as the remaining official channels. [1]
