New Facts: Rep. Pingree says Guerrero was not ICE target

ICE has halted most traffic-stop arrests nationwide following fatal shootings in Houston and in Biddeford, Maine, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.

The Department of Homeland Security said an ICE officer, “fearing for public safety,” shot and killed a driver Monday in Biddeford while officers were conducting “targeted surveillance.”

The victim was identified by a family friend and multiple outlets as Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian and a husband and father of a 3-year-old daughter.

U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said Guerrero was not the person ICE intended to arrest, a point also echoed by a U.S. senator cited by Forbes; ICE has said its officers were on a targeted surveillance operation at the time.

Hundreds of people rallied and held vigils in Biddeford and Portland on Tuesday, after a Monday night vigil in Biddeford, according to local coverage that put crowds in the hundreds.

PBS and the New York Times noted the Maine killing was the second ICE-involved fatal shooting in a week, with the earlier case in Houston; CNN said its review of videos and photos from Biddeford offers a timeline as investigators continue their work.

AI-synthesized from multiple reported sources