U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested an illegal alien who allegedly killed a newlywed couple in Oregon in 2025.
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Rajinder Kumar is an Indian national who illegally entered the country in 2022 and was awarded a commercial driver's license in California. In November 2025, he jackknifed on a highway where a car carrying William Micah Carter and Jennifer Lynn Lower slammed into the trailer. He was arrested on charges of negligent homicide and reckless endangerment but was released earlier this month.
“This illegal alien was issued a CDL by Gavin Newsom’s California. He then went on to recklessly drive a truck on America’s highways and KILL two honeymooners. Instead of cooperating with ICE law enforcement, Oregon sanctuary politicians RELEASED him from jail back into American communities,” Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a
press release on the DHS website.
“Every time sanctuary politicians release a dangerous criminal illegal alien back into our communities, they are gambling with American lives. We are grateful to our ICE law enforcement officers who tracked this killer down to ensure he’s permanently removed from America’s highways and can never harm another American family again.”
According to a
local news report from the time, the incident occurred on Nov. 24, 2025, at around 9:30 a.m on a rural stretch of Highway 20 near milepost 51. Kumar was driving a semi-truck and trailer that jackknifed and was stopped in the middle of the road, blocking both lanes. Carter and Lower—who had been married for just 16 days at the time—were in a Subaru Outback that collided with the trailer, killing them both.
Kumar was arrested by Oregon State Police for criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangering, and was lodged in the Deschutes County Jail.
ICE lodged a detainer against Kumar in
December 2025 but noted in a press release at the time that Oregon is a sanctuary state, and so would have to take measures to take him into custody should he be released. State officials refused to cooperate with ICE and released Kumar on April 2. ICE found him and took him into custody on April 22. He is being held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, awaiting deportation proceedings.
Kumar crossed the border illegally near Lukeville, Arizona, in November 2022; he was released into the country and given work authorization. He later obtained a CDL in California.
The couple's
obituary stated that they met on a blind date in February 2025. They were married on Nov. 8, 2025, in the Portland Latter-Day Saints temple.
Earlier this week, ICE lodged an
arrest detainer against another Indian national who brutally attacked a mother and child in Texas. The suspect arrived in the United States on a student visa in 2023, and has a previous felony arrest; his visa was revoked in April 2025. The illegal alien allegedly pulled the mother's hair and bit the child, causing significant injuries.
Earlier this month, an illegal immigrant from India was indicted on multiple homicide charges after leading law enforcement on a high-speed chase in Ohio, which resulted in the death of a 17-year-old passenger and her unborn child.
