Lorenzo Salgado Araujo began his final day like he would any other — loading his white van with coffee and lunch before heading off to work.
Salgado’s son, Ronaldo Salgado, posted security camera footage Thursday capturing his father at home about one hour before a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed him in Houston’s Magnolia Park neighborhood two days earlier.
The agency said Salgado rammed an ICE vehicle after an attempted traffic stop and tried running over an agent, but he’s also the third person shot and killed by federal immigration law enforcement this year, sparking renewed outrage and doubts about ICE’s account.
“He did not deserve to die,” Ronaldo Salgado wrote about his father on Facebook Wednesday. “He did not deserve to be pulled out of his van, bleeding to death while ICE agents detained him.”
Salgado enters the frame of one of the videos his son posted Wednesday and unloads a cooler into the passenger side of his van. He climbs into the vehicle in the next clip and backs out of the driveway at 5:54 a.m.
A dog was by his side as he approached the driver’s side door.
An ICE agent shot Salgado about one hour later.
“He should have been pulling into that driveway 14 hours later after putting in a long day in the Houston sun,” Ronaldo Salgado’s post states. “He should have been eating a huge home-cooked meal prepared by my mom.”
Lorenzo Salgado was a Mexican citizen who had lived in the United States for nearly 35 years, his family said. He owned a construction business, had a clean record and was picking up workers when he encountered ICE, according to his son.
ICE said it was conducting a “targeted enforcement operation” at the time. Locals have cast doubt on ICE’s account of the events leading up to the shooting and have pressed for an independent investigation, which Mayor John Whitmire has declined to open.