{"id":802238,"date":"2026-07-14T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802238\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:38:09","slug":"live-updates-ice-shootings-in-biddeford-maine-and-houston-spark-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802238\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: ICE shootings in Biddeford, Maine, and Houston spark outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrkpv3m7000d3b6rdut08x3p@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus announced they will hold a field hearing next Friday in Houston on the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrkpv3m7000e3b6r78i8kbog@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national, was shot and killed by an ICE officer during a traffic stop in Houston one week ago. None of the officers involved wore body cameras, and no video of the shooting has been released.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrkpv3m7000f3b6ryqey7fub@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            At a news conference in Washington, DC, caucus members decried the lack of information from ICE about the shooting and said next week\u2019s hearing will include testimony from witnesses and an examination of the facts.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrkpv3m7000g3b6resxam60s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Days after Salgado Araujo\u2019s death, 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Maine.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrkpv3m7000h3b6rupmb00u1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe pattern is always the same,\u201d said US Rep. Sylvia Garcia, who represents the Houston area, a Democrat. She cited statements released by ICE following the shootings that said agents acted in self-defense or out of concern for public safety.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrkpv3m7000i3b6rb9zte7mg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIf ICE has the option to shoot anybody for public safety concern, that means what? If you\u2019re speeding down the road violating public safety laws, they may decide to shoot you,\u201d Garcia said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrkpv3m7000j3b6r6p2ke8za@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            US Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, emphasized that neither Salgado Araujo nor Guerrero was the target of ICE operations, calling both shootings \u201ccold-blooded murder.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrkpv3m7000k3b6r8n8r9hx0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Caucus members said they have discussed holding a similar field hearing in Maine.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus announced they will hold a field hearing next Friday in Houston on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,26791,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-802238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-hnk","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}