Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent David Brouillette — who killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine — has long history of violent behavior, according to his relatives, reports the Associated Press and CBS News:
They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.
CBS News also spoke with one of those relatives, his ex-wife Ashley Brouillette, who said that given his history, she didn’t believe him when he told her last November that he’d been hired by ICE.
“I don’t understand how he keeps getting these jobs where there are firearms involved. He’s a danger to society. He’s a danger to people and to himself,” she said. “And I just don’t understand how he keeps getting away with it.”
Ashley Brouillett described an incident to PBS in which her ex-husband, ICE shooter David Brouillette allegedly assaulted her:
He’d hit me, choke me. And there was an incident where we had been fighting, and I walked away, and I got in the shower. And he comes in with a gun and points it at me and tells me that he’s going to blow my brains all over the bathtub…
I feel like even though I tried to bring awareness to his mental health conditions before and I got ignored, that I really need to push and be heard now and hopefully prevent something like this from happening again.
(Sources: Associated Press, CBS News, PBS)