{"id":369670,"date":"2026-07-11T18:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369670\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:09:18","slug":"houston-ice-shooting-officials-give-new-details-about-salgado-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369670\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston ICE shooting: Officials give new details about Salgado death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare speaks during a news conference in Houston on Friday, July 10, 2026, regarding the officer-involved shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation and the detention of the two passengers who were in the vehicle with him.<\/p>\n

Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle\"U.S.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia speaks during a news conference in Houston on Friday, July 10, 2026, regarding the officer-involved shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation and the detention of the two passengers who were in the vehicle with him.<\/p>\n

Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle\"Harris<\/p>\n

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare speaks during a news conference in Houston on Friday, July 10, 2026, regarding the officer-involved shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation and the detention of the two passengers who were in the vehicle with him.<\/p>\n

Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle\"U.S.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Al Green speaks during a news conference in Houston on Friday, July 10, 2026, regarding the officer-involved shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation and the detention of the two passengers who were in the vehicle with him.<\/p>\n

Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle\"U.S.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia speaks during a news conference in Houston on Friday, July 10, 2026, regarding the officer-involved shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation and the detention of the two passengers who were in the vehicle with him.<\/p>\n

Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle\"U.S.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Al Green speaks during a news conference in Houston on Friday, July 10, 2026, regarding the officer-involved shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation and the detention of the two passengers who were in the vehicle with him.<\/p>\n

Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle\"U.S.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia speaks during a news conference in Houston on Friday, July 10, 2026, regarding the officer-involved shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation and the detention of the two passengers who were in the vehicle with him.<\/p>\n

Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle\"Harris<\/p>\n

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare speaks during a news conference in Houston on Friday, July 10, 2026, regarding the officer-involved shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation and the detention of the two passengers who were in the vehicle with him.<\/p>\n

Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle\"U.S.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Al Green speaks during a news conference in Houston on Friday, July 10, 2026, regarding the officer-involved shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation and the detention of the two passengers who were in the vehicle with him.<\/p>\n

Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle<\/p>\n

Houston area leaders launching their own investigation into the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE agent said during a Friday news\u00a0conference that they\u00a0are concerned about federal transparency and cooperation.<\/p>\n

Outrage over the shooting of\u00a0Salgado has deepened since Thursday, when U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia announced David Venturella, acting director of ICE, confirmed Salgado was not the\u00a0intended target of immigration agents.<\/a> An ICE agent fatally shot Salgado in the abdomen early Tuesday after\u00a0agents attempted to pull over his van in the 6800 block of Canal Street.<\/p>\n

Salgado has long lived as a business owner in Houston, and is the father to U.S citizens, according to Houston attorney Hugo Baldera-Ybarra.<\/p>\n

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The Harris County District Attorney’s\u00a0office vowed Friday to conduct a thorough investigation<\/a> into the shooting. But according to Garcia, Venturella said DHS has no timeline for the federal investigation. And while the Congressional Committee on the Department of Homeland Security has sent a\u00a0 letter full of demands for information to DHS,\u00a0leaders are wary that cooperation will be a challenge. Minnesota officials, for example, have launched their own investigations into the January shootings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti and Julio Sosa-Celis. Still, they have not received federal cooperation; the state and local county attorney have\u00a0filed a lawsuit<\/a> to force them to comply, and that suit is still being heard in court.<\/p>\n

“These are not normal times,” Garcia said Friday. “Normally, we would’ve\u00a0immediately called the justice department’s civil rights division and they probably would’ve been here the next day. But these are not normal times …We have orders from the white house to just pick up everyone we can anyway they can.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Body cameras will be worn end of month, Garcia says<\/p>\n

Garcia told press Friday that\u00a0Venturella said ICE agents were searching for an individual with a final removal order and an administrative warrant.\u00a0Venturella couldn\u2019t identify the person the operation was targeting, Garcia said.<\/p>\n

DHS did not immediately respond to the Chronicle’s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting did not have body cameras, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Thursday. Garcia said\u00a0 Friday that\u00a0 ICE received $20 million for body cameras from congress, and former director Kristi Noem promised cameras would be utilized.\u00a0Venturella\u00a0promised Garcia that agents would get body cameras by the end of July, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd trust me, I will hold him to it. And I will make sure all my colleague in Congress \u2026 will hold him to it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Lawyer worried men detained will be pressured to self-deport<\/p>\n

Garcia said conflicting testimonies and videos, that appear to show no damage to the van, make her question ICE’s account of the shooting of Salgado.<\/p>\n

“This is a straight copy playbook of ICE,” Garcia said, referencing the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota. “I’m not prepared to say today that it’s all lies, but it sure is looking that way.”<\/p>\n

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Hugo Baldera-Ybarra, the lawyer for three workers in the van who ICE also detained, said his clients\u2019 version of events is extremely different from ICE\u2019s description of the shooting.<\/p>\n

Baldera-Ybarra said during Friday’s news conference that his clients were being held at the Montgomery Processing Center in Conroe. He called for their immediate release and said he is worried they will be coerced into signing documents for their voluntary departure.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy clients will forever be physically and emotionally scarred by this. None of these families will ever be whole again. One man lost a brother. The other two men lost a dear friend.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Balderas-Ibarra provided the Washington Post with “written and oral accounts” of his discussion with the men, Jose Trinidad Rojas, 51, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, 43 and Salgado’s brother, Victor Salgado, 44.\u00a0Balderas-Ibarra said the men were not being held together, but they gave him similar accounts of the confrontation with the agents, which contradict ICE’s explanation that Salgado “weaponized” his vehicle.<\/p>\n

The men said no immigration agents were positioned in front of or behind the van. The officers approached the van and fired into it from its side, according to the report. The men also say ICE officers may have also fired multiple shots into the van as they moved in to arrest the group.<\/p>\n

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READ MORE: Houston man killed by ICE agent was not initial target, Rep. Sylvia Garcia says<\/a><\/p>\n

DA says office\u00a0conducting its\u00a0own investigation, collaborating with HPD<\/p>\n

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said his office has been conducting its own investigation into the shooting \u2014 even though \u201cthey were not invited\u201d by federal agencies. Typically, Teare said his office collaborates with local and federal law enforcement on the investigations.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost universally we present the case to a grand jury and let them decide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Investigators with the DA\u2019s office are doing “everything we can and do in every case to ensure that a full fair investigation is conducted so that we can be transparent with our community.\u201d Investigators have been obtaining surveillance footage and conducting witness interviews, Teare said.<\/p>\n

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He urged any community members with any information, \u201ceven a snippet,\u201d to send them to his office, adding that even the smallest piece could be \u201cpivotal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teare said his office needs to be careful about releasing certain details to protect \u201cthe integrity\u201d of the investigation. Teare said his office has been collaborating with the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re being very collaborative as they always are,\u201d Teare said of HPD, adding that the FBI has also been \u201cincredibly communicative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Houston Mayor John Whitmire on Friday announced that he directed Houston\u00a0Police Chief Noe Diaz to send a letter to the DHS and to the FBI “indicating he will make all appropriate HPD resources available to support the investigation into the fatal shooting” of Salgado.<\/p>\n

Whitmire has\u00a0backed a rigorous investigation into Salgado’s killing but stopped short of announcing an independent one earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Experts told the Houston Chronicle that while Houston police and the district attorney’s office have the ability to conduct an independent investigation, the agencies have no guarantee federal agencies will cooperate.<\/p>\n

Those calling for an independent investigation say\u00a0ICE’s explanation of the shooting \u2014 that Salgado\u00a0evaded arrest and tried to weaponize his car against agents \u2014 is similar to the initial narratives the agency put out in the January killing of Good. They also pointed out that ICE’s description of three separate Minnesota shootings in January were refuted by video footage.<\/p>\n

Despite difficulties Minnesota leaders have had getting federal agencies to cooperate in independent investigations into ICE-related shootings, Teare said he has \u201cfull confidence\u201d DHS and the Office of the Inspector General will share evidence with his office.<\/p>\n

Committee on DHS sends letter of demands<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Al Green, who sits on the committee of the Department of Homeland Security, thanked\u00a0Teare for \u201cnot allowing the feds to bully\u201d him. Green stressed that any member of local law enforcement has the ability to investigate.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Salgado) belongs to the constitution of the United States of America,\u201d Green said, while beating his chest. \u201cThat constitution applies to him just as it applies to me \u2026 he should not receive any less attention from the constitution that I or any of you would receive.”<\/p>\n

Green said the members of the Committee on Homeland Security sent a letter to DHS saying they are investigating the fatal shooting of Salgado, as well as the Trump\u2019s administration response to the killing.<\/p>\n

Green said Benny Thompson, ranking member of the committee, has promised he will see to it that the committee investigates at the federal level and that if that federal investigation does not happen, Thompson will initiate \u201ca shadow hearing in Houston.\u201d<\/p>\n

The committee in their letter demanded DHS hand over any footage of the shooting, an explanation as to why agents were not wearing body cameras and how ICE identified themselves at the scene in East Houston. The letter demands a list of any previous complaints against the ICE officer who fatally shot Salgado and evidence of damage to vehicles. Committee members in their letter also demanded to know whether any witnesses to the shooting have been deported or pressured to self-deport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare speaks during a news conference in Houston on Friday, July 10, 2026,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-369670","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\/369670","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=369670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}