{"id":364923,"date":"2026-07-08T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364923\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:26:08","slug":"stepdaughter-says-men-were-racially-profiled-before-fatal-ice-encounte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364923\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepdaughter says men were racially profiled before fatal ICE encounte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed after ICE agents said he tried evading arrest in East Houston during a \u201ctargeted enforcement\u201d operation.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u00a0Tirado was one of the workers traveling in the van when Araujo was shot, his stepdaughter\u00a0Monserrat Cardoso told the Houston Chronicle. She doesn&#8217;t believe ICE&#8217;s claims about why agents tried pulling over the van.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just saw a couple of Hispanic men going to work, so they decided to chase them down and follow them,\u201d she said. \u201cThey were targeted because they&#8217;re Hispanic men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, federal officials said Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle and an agent shot him in self defense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cICE law enforcement attempted to conduct a vehicle stop as part of a targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien,\u201d the agency <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DHSgov\/status\/2074626271716216846\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">said in a statement<\/a>. The agency said Araujo refused to follow commands and tried to run\u00a0over an ICE agent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re hoping more (video) footage comes out soon because it was not self-defense,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Cardoso said the only videos she\u2019s seen on news outlets and social media show her stepdad restrained on the asphalt as Araujo bled from a gunshot wound on the 6800 block of Canal Street.<\/p>\n<p>Her stepfather was able to make a brief phone call after his arrest, but the call was disconnected. Her family hadn\u2019t heard from him since then, but wanted to urge him not to sign anything that could lead to his immediate removal from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re trying to make them self-deport, so they don&#8217;t have witnesses,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>No prior criminal cases involving Araujo or Tirado are on file at\u00a0the Harris County District Clerk&#8217;s office. Cardoso said she wasn\u2019t aware of any past criminal violations involving him or her stepfather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I know about (Lorenzo), he&#8217;s a really good man, a hard-working man,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed after ICE agents said he tried evading arrest in East Houston during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-364923","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\/364923","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=364923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}