{"id":369599,"date":"2026-07-11T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369599\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:24:37","slug":"labor-community-leaders-gather-in-houston-to-mourn-lorenzo-salgado-araujo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369599\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor, community leaders gather in Houston to mourn Lorenzo Salgado Araujo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elected officials join labor groups in demanding answers<\/p>\n

July 9, 2026: A memorial grows at the location in east Houston where Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent. (Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n

Houston \u2013 Houston labor organizations, community leaders and elected officials gathered Saturday morning to mourn Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The vigil was held at 10 a.m. at the SEIU Texas office, located at 3219 Harrisburg Blvd. in Houston.<\/p>\n

Congressmembers Al Green, Christian Menefee, Sylvia Garcia and Lizzie Fletcher attended the vigil, along with other elected officials.<\/p>\n

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About the AuthorKatherine Levens headshotKatherine Levens<\/a><\/p>\n

Katherine Levens is a logistics coordinator from Fort Worth, Texas. Over the past six years she has worked in both the DFW and Houston markets, supporting operations and cross-market coordination. She earned a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Broadcast Communication from the University of Texas at Arlington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elected officials join labor groups in demanding answers July 9, 2026: A memorial grows at the location in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[130945,56,130943,58,57,130944],"class_list":["post-369599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-community-leaders-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-elected-officials","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-police-violence-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369599","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=369599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}