ICE officer connected to fatal Maine shooting suffered 2021 head injury, which he said had left him with ‘cognitive deficits’

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer connected to the fatal shooting of a man in Maine this week once told a court that he suffered lingering cognitive issues after sustaining a serious head injury. Those problems, which David Brouillette said resulted from a steel I-beam falling on his head, were so debilitating that he couldn’t complete a firefighting training course and was still feeling effects years later. The lawsuit Brouillette filed in late 2023 against the Maine Community College System, which administered the training where he was earlier injured, said he was still “significantly impaired in his activities and in his daily living.” The suit alleged his post-concussive injuries “impaired his cognitive functioning and impaired his memory.” Just over two years later, Brouillette was working as an ICE officer.