Locals on Aftermath of Maine Shooting: 'No One Did Anything'

Neighbors say they watched a Monday morning commute in Biddeford, Maine, turn into a fatal ICE shooting. Daniel Boucher says he heard what sounded like fireworks, then saw an SUV attempting to hit a small white car before federal agents in vests pulled the driver, who was gushing blood from his head, from the vehicle, per the Portland Press Herald. "He was talking. He said, 'I tried to stop,'" Boucher recounted, adding he believes he watched the man die in the street.

Authorities haven't released the driver's name, but a neighbor and immigrant advocates identified him as 26-year-old Colombian national and father Joan Sebastian Guerrero, who they say was authorized to work in the US. Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him Guerrero wasn't the subject of the arrest warrant that ICE had in hand. Witness Lucas Scott, 18, says he saw an agent fire "probably four shots" after the driver appeared to move toward the officer. Another resident, Em Akerley, says she saw agents try to control the circling car, then ram it to a stop.

"No one did anything" after Guerrero was pulled out of the vehicle, an emotional Akerley notes. Local Mary Hayes, who says Guerrero lives nearby with his family, tells the AP, "I watched a wife fall to her knees looking at her husband's dead body on the ground. ... I watched a little girl crying with a little pink backpack on because she's never going to see her father again." Sadie Dilboy, who owns an area laundromat, says Guerrero would often come in to her establishment with his young daughter. "He was such a good person. He was always cleaning up," she says.

Akerley and Boucher both questioned why Guerrero was shot, with Akerley calling what she saw an execution, per the Press Herald. "I'm pretty [expletive] tired of people dying in the streets," she says. Boucher, meanwhile, says he's spoken to local police about the shooting, but that he has no intention of talking to the feds because "they'll sweep this under the rug like they have so many times before." A vigil for Guerrero was held on Monday evening, with counterprotesters in attendance, per WGME. Federal agencies haven't commented, other than Mullin's remarks to King, while Maine officials continue to demand answers.