\n“My office is running an investigation,” he said. “But we do not have the same level of access that we do in almost any other officer-involved shooting, to say that we have everything. I can tell you unequivocally, we don’t have everything.”<\/p>\n
\nLorenzo Salgado Araujo, a longtime Houston resident originally from Mexico, was fatally shot<\/a> by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on Tuesday morning in Houston\u2019s predominantly Latino East End. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement that Salgado Araujo did not have legal status in the U.S. and attempted to evade arrest. A department spokesperson also said Salgado Araujo tried to run over an ICE agent with his vehicle, prompting the agent to shoot Salgado Araujo in self-defense.<\/p>\n RELATED: Fatal ICE shooting in Houston comes amid sharp surge in Trump\u2019s deportation push<\/a><\/p>\n \nThe man\u2019s family<\/a> has disputed that account while calling for an independent investigation. Local Democratic elected officials<\/a> also have called for an independent investigation. The FBI said Tuesday that DHS\u2019 Office of Inspector General is investigating the shooting death, while the FBI is investigating whether a federal law enforcement officer was potentially assaulted during the encounter.<\/p>\n \nTeare said that typically, his office would conduct an investigation alongside other agencies in the event of an officer-involved shooting, but that his office has not been invited to do so. The DA\u2019s office investigates and prosecutes crimes in Harris County, which includes Houston.<\/p>\n \n“My investigators have been on the scene. We have talked to individuals,” Teare said Thursday. “My investigators were at both of the vigils last night, at the marches, just talking to people, finding out if we have eyewitnesses that people haven’t seen yet. And we’re going to get some semblance of transparency for the public, because I think it is incredibly important to do so.”<\/p>\n Michael Adkison<\/p>\n \/<\/p>\n Houston Public Media<\/p>\n Hundreds marched on July 8, 2026, in protest of the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a federal immigration agent.<\/p>\n![\"Hundreds](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783630633_195_.jpeg\"\/)
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