Ashley Brouillette, the ex-wife of ICE officer David Brouillette, has now spoken up after the ICE officer shot and killed a Colombian man in Maine this week. Brouillette revealed that her ex-husband had struggled with serious mental health issues since childhood and Ashley too suffered his abuse.Ashlet said when David told her last year that he had been hired by ICE, she thought he was just having a mental health episode and she did not believe him. And she remained under that impression until last week when videos of the ICE officer shooting a man in Maine went viral.Ashley told the AP that after the video went viral, she spoke to her ex-husband on a Facebook audio call where he acknowledged that he had killed Duran Guerrero, the Colombian man.Ashley said David asked her to tell everyone that he was a good person and not to mention the abuse. “I asked him why he did it,” she said. “He said it was a justified shooting. The guy was trying to run him over with a car.”David and Ashley Brouillette were high school sweethearts who got married in 2007. But the couple parted ways in 2009 because he had become physically violent with her, which began after she got pregnant with their daughter. After the divorce, David got married to his second ex-wife whose name has not been revealed because she fears retaliation from David. She alleged that David stalked her and harassed her.An immediate relative of David said he was diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder as a child, attempted to end his life twice at the age of 12 and was hospitalized multiple times.
Initially rejected by military because of mental health: ‘Afghanistan destroyed him’
Brouillette was initially rejected by military recruiters because of his mental health diagnoses, but recruiters encouraged him to go off his medications for a year and reapply. According to US military records, Brouillette enlisted as a chemical equipment repairer in the Maine Army National Guard but then changed jobs to be a medical logistics specialist. He was in the Guard from November 2007 until January 2010, according to records provided by the Pentagon.In January 2010, he joined the regular Army as a human intelligence collector. Brouillette deployed to Afghanistan from May 2012 to February 2013 and eventually left the Army as a sergeant in December 2015. His relatives believe Afghanistan broke him as he had to become a monster.
