Calls Grow for Independent Investigation Into ICE-Perpetrated Killing in Houston

“We don’t expect the truth from the Department of Justice or from the FBI,” said the national president of a civil rights group.

Image: A floral wreath hangs on a utility pole near the intersection of Wayside Drive and Canal Street in Houston, Texas, on July 7, 2026, marking the location where Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by an ICE agent. Reginald Mathalone / NurPhoto via Getty Images

 

Colleen Deguzman of The Texas Tribune reports: : “Houston leaders on Wednesday said they have received little information from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about the fatal shooting of an immigrant Tuesday, while his eldest son publicly praised his father and demanded an investigation.

“He wanted nothing else in life but to provide for his wife and see his sons become great people,” Ronaldo Salgado, who works as a teacher, said of his father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, during a press conference.

Salgado said his father was a “man of routine” who always began his day before sunrise and left the house around 6 a.m. to his job building homes in North Houston…”

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