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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement cause fatally changeable a antheral successful Houston aboriginal Tuesday aft helium allegedly tried to tally implicit the agent, according to the national agency.
Federal agents were conducting a conveyance halt arsenic portion of a targeted enforcement cognition conscionable earlier 7 a.m. erstwhile Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who ICE identified arsenic an undocumented migrant from Mexico, attempted to evade arrest, according to an ICE statement.
He past allegedly attempted to ram an ICE vehicle, refused to travel aggregate verbal commands and tried to tally implicit the ICE agent, the connection said. ICE said the cause fired his limb successful self-defense.
The Houston Fire Department said successful a connection that its responders were dispatched to the shooting astatine 6:51 a.m. and recovered the antheral with a gunshot coiled to his abdomen.
He was transported to Ben Taub Hospital with CPR successful progress, the section said. He died astatine the hospital, according to ICE.
The Houston Police Department said its officers were not portion of the ICE cognition and they arrived up afterward to assistance nonstop traffic.
FBI Houston spokesperson Connor Hagan said the bureau is starring an probe into the imaginable battle connected a national instrumentality enforcement officer.
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General is starring an probe into the fatal shooting of the man, according to Hagan.
U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, said the man’s household and her constituents “deserve a implicit and transparent accounting” of the fatal shooting. Alejandra Salinas, a progressive Houston City assembly member, and civilian rights groups person besides raised akin demands for an autarkic investigation.
“ICE has released an archetypal account, but the facts indispensable beryllium independently and thoroughly investigated, including the circumstances that led to the usage of deadly force,” Garcia said successful a station connected X. “All disposable footage, communications, and different grounds should beryllium preserved and reviewed arsenic portion of a afloat and impartial investigation.”
U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee, D-Houston, echoed that call.
“ICE’s actions crossed the state person caused them to suffer the religion and assurance of communities,” Menefee said. “We indispensable guarantee transparency successful this investigation. My bosom is with everyone impacted by this fatal shooting.”
Mildred Guerra, 23, an security cause who lives and works successful the heavy Latino eastbound Houston neighborhood, said the ICE operations interest her.
“I’m precise disquieted astir our customers,” she said, adding that galore of their customers person started calling successful payments by telephone alternatively than coming successful person.
The shooting comes arsenic national migration agents person travel nether scrutiny for a bid of fatal shootings of American citizens successful the past twelvemonth and a half.
On March 15, 2025, an ICE cause helping section constabulary way postulation astir an mishap changeable and killed 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez successful South Padre Island, wherever the San Antonio nonmigratory was celebrating his day with friends. ICE’s engagement successful the shooting lone became nationalist cognition aft watchdog radical American Oversight received documents arsenic portion of a nationalist records request.
In January, migration agents fatally changeable 37-year-old Renee Good and 37-year-old Alex Pretti successful Minneapolis during an migration enforcement operation.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees migration agents, said agents changeable some Martinez and Good aft they purposely tried to tally implicit ICE agents. But video footage successful some incidents don’t amusement Martinez oregon Good attempting to tally implicit the agents.
In Pretti’s killing, video footage showed Border Patrol agents had already restrained the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs nurse, who was equipped with a handgun holstered connected his hip, earlier 2 Border Patrol agents changeable him 10 times.
Prosecutors person not criminally charged immoderate of the ICE agents successful transportation to those 3 shootings.
But successful May, Minnesota prosecutors charged Christian Castro, a 52-year-old ICE serviceman who was arrested successful Texas, with 5 counts, including second-degree battle and filing a mendacious constabulary report, successful transportation with the wounding of a antheral during an migration cognition successful that state. The felony charges against Castro stem from a Jan. 14 incidental successful which ICE and Border Patrol agents pursued undocumented immigrants arsenic portion of the Trump administration’s migration crackdown.
Ayden Runnels, Colleen DeGuzman and Stephen Simpson contributed to this story.
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