{"id":364406,"date":"2026-07-07T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364406\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:26:10","slug":"ice-says-agent-shot-and-killed-houston-driver-fbi-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364406\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE says agent shot and killed Houston driver, FBI investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/immigration\/article\/iran-christian-ice-detained-church-22325942.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> agent shot and killed a Mexican citizen in Houston&#8217;s Magnolia Park neighborhood Tuesday morning after he allegedly drove into an ICE vehicle, an agency spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for ICE alleges the man who was killed, identified as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, tried evading arrest during an attempted vehicle stop at around 6:50 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The driver refused multiple commands and tried running over an ICE officer, prompting an officer to fire his weapon in self defense, according to ICE.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were &#8220;immediately contacted,&#8221; and\u00a0Araujo later died at the hospital, federal officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a developing situation, and we will update the public when more information is available,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>One individual was transported to Ben Taub Hospital from 6825 Canal Street after firefighters were dispatched at 6:51 a.m., according to the Houston Fire Department. The FBI sent its evidence response team to the scene, said Connor\u00a0Hagan, a spokesperson for FBI Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Hagan and the Houston Police Department referred questions about the case to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is not an\u00a0HPD scene,&#8221; a Houston Police Department spokesperson told the Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a Mexican citizen in Houston&#8217;s Magnolia Park neighborhood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-364406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}