authority to conduct their own investigation <\/a>into Salgado\u2019s death but said local officials have no power to compel federal authorities to share evidence.<\/p>\n“This is a federal matter with the DHS Office of Inspector General leading the shooting investigation,” Diaz said.<\/p>\n
Diaz said he sent a letter to the federal agencies saying that\u00a0HPD is willing to assist but does not have the evidence to handle its own independent probe.<\/p>\n
“Of course we have authority to collect information and share what we’ve found, and we’ve done that and we’re gonna continue,” Whitmire said. “We have to be proactive and meet with the FBI and urge them to share their collection of evidence.”<\/p>\n
After an ICE agent fatally shot Salgado early Tuesday in the 6800 block of Canal Street, the FBI arrived and secured the site, Whitmire said.<\/p>\n
He directed\u00a0Diaz to ask federal officials to share any evidence they gathered with local police. Diaz also sent a letter to\u00a0DHS and to the FBI “indicating he will make all appropriate HPD resources available to support the investigation into the fatal shooting,”\u00a0Whitmire said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Salgado family\u2019s life will never be the same,\u201d Whitmire said. \u201cAt no fault of theirs, Mr. Salgado was chased by an unmarked vehicle before he could identify himself and speak as a Houstonian, he was shot and killed.\u201d<\/p>\n
U.S. Rep Sylvia Garcia\u00a0emphasized that Salgado was a Houstonian for 35 years, with no criminal history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was no body camera footage, no siren, no lights, no marking on the vehicle that would have identified it as law enforcement, Garcia said. She urged the public to put themselves in\u00a0Salgado’s shoes. “What would you have done if a black SUV-looking vehicle just started chasing you?”<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pain is real across Houston,\u201d Whitmire said. \u201cImmigrants make this a great city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after the Tuesday shooting, Whitmire, despite dissent from several City Council members, said there would not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-368889","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\/368889","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=368889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}