Federal authorities have characterized the shooting as an act of “self-defense,” claiming that the man, 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, sought to evade arrest and attempted to run over an ICE officer with his vehicle.
The incident comes about six months after federal officers shot and killed two Americans in separate encounters during the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, sparking outrage from people across the country and triggering widespread protests. Federal officials' accounts of what unfolded in those incidents were contradicted by videos that were recorded by bystanders and made public in the wake of the shootings.
Here’s what we know about the shooting in Houston and what federal authorities and Araujo’s family are saying.
“From information we are receiving, he rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands, and weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer resulting in our officer firing his weapon in self-defense,” DHS said. The agency didn’t provide evidence to support those claims.
DHS said that its inspector general’s office is conducting an investigation into the incident, and that the FBI Houston office is investigating the alleged assault on a federal law enforcement officer.
What does Araujo’s family say?
“Had my father seen an emblem of ICE, or an emblem that says anything about a law enforcement agency, my father would have complied; he would have stopped,” Salgado said. He went on to say that his father may have been worried that the people following him would try and steal the tools he needed for work.
Araujo had been living in the U.S. for about 35 years and had been working to try to obtain legal status in the country, Salgado said.
Democratic Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Texas, who joined Araujo’s family at the press conference on Wednesday, said that Araujo had no criminal record. She demanded a “full,” “transparent,” and “independent” investigation into the incident.
She referenced the shooting of U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis in January. Federal officials claimed the shooting was an act of “self-defense,” accusing Good of trying to run over an officer with her car. But video footage of the incident contradicted the Trump Administration’s portrayal.
“Remember Minneapolis? Remember Renee Good?” Garcia continued. “Has ICE learned nothing from that experience?”
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