ICE agents 'looking for someone else' when they killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
The US Department of Homeland Security said the man killed by immigration agents in Houston was not the target of the enforcement operation.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was killed by federal immigration agents during a traffic stop in Houston this week, was not the intended target of the "enforcement operation," the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were reportedly seeking two people from Guatemala when they attempted to stop Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who had lived in the US for 35 years.
Salgado Araujo, who was on his way to work early on Tuesday morning, was driving a white van carrying three other people. After the shooting, the three men were taken into custody. One of them has been identified by advocates as Victor Hugo Salgado Araujo, the victim's brother, who was reportedly still in an immigration detention center.
ICE agents claimed Salgado Araujo "weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer," who then fired "in self-defense," but provided no evidence to support that account. The agency has used that defense in other high-profile incidents, including the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, where video evidence later contradicted the description. DHS said the officers involved were not wearing body cameras.
