Trump agent’s ‘dead to me’ rant exposes ‘compelling’ motive in shooting: ex-prosecutor
A former federal prosecutor said newly surfaced emails from a Trump immigration agent point to a motive in a deadly shooting.
Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney, said Wednesday on her Substack show "Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance" that emails in which ICE officer David Brouillette told his sister she was "dead to me" amount to "strong, compelling evidence of motive" in the July killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine.
Vance was joined by New York Times reporter Katie Benner, who reported with a colleague Wednesday that Brouillette's sister shared 2021 emails in which he lashed out at her Colombian partner, a man living in the U.S. legally. Benner's reporting also found Brouillette was brought on during the Trump administration's rush to staff up deportation ranks, and that his background report was not fully reviewed before he was put in the field. ICE has denied lowering its hiring standards and declined to confirm Brouillette fired the shots....