He spent decades building houses <\/a>and took pride in putting his children through college. His family said he worked hard for the life he made.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"Lorenzo]()
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Lorenzo Salgado Jr., left, and Ronaldo Salgado, right, sons of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, hold family photos during a news conference in Houston Wednesday, July 8, 2026.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey dream of the American dream,\u201d said Juan Osorio, 64, of Salgado and his neighbors. Osorio owns the JMO tire shop around the corner from the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the dream, he said, is not the same one he imagined growing up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe no longer all look at the dream as when, 20, 30, 40 years ago, we had the freedom to work, fight, progress. Now it\u2019s like they\u2019re putting a stop to us \u2026 This is becoming a nightmare.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
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Memories of injustice\u00a0<\/p>\n
Steps from Murphy\u2019s porch, city construction crews have removed the asphalt on Canal Street, exposing the red brick roadway she remembers from childhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For more than a century, Canal Street has carried life\u00a0in Houston. Construction and ship channel workers took it home after long shifts building this city. Mutual aid societies and advocacy groups took root along the street, and so did the city\u2019s first Hispanic funeral home. Chicano artists turned its buildings into iconic murals. Each generation left another layer behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Oscar G\u00f3mez, 3, rides his bicycle on the front lawn of his family’s home near the scene of an officer-involved shooting during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. The shooting is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n
Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle<\/p>\n
For Murphy\u2019s next-door neighbor, Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Tuesday\u2019s horror was not entirely new. He opened his eyes that morning to the sound of his dog, Rocky, barking in the yard. He looked out at his front window, then ran to the porch. There, in half-light, he saw the white van with the doors open. He saw Salgado on the ground and other men still inside. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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And he returned to a 50-year-old memory. When he was 12 years old, a commotion pulled him out to the porch of his father\u2019s green bungalow near Moody Park. Protesters gathered in his neighborhood. He can still see the cars burning, police pushing people into vans. A member of Houston\u2019s Latino community had been killed by law enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A community member holds a candle during a candlelight vigil following the shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a federal agent during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. The shooting occurred the previous day and is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n
Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle<\/p>\n
That night, when the unrest subsided, he met with friends to try to understand what had happened to Joe Campos Torres, a 23-year-old veteran whom police beat and dumped in the bayou, where he drowned. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Police picked him up earlier that night after an altercation at a bar. They found him on Canal Street.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez joined the dozens of Houstonians gathering outside his home Tuesday afternoon. The sky erupted, the rain blowing sideways and the windows shaking with thunder. Journalists ran to their news vans and sedans, and the protesters huddled onto the porch of a shuttered barbershop. It sagged under the weight of so many people. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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There, Gonzalez heard someone say she was the sister of Joe Campos Torres. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Gonzalez told her he remembered. She wrapped him in a hug.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Building a memorial\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Wednesday morning, a woman pushing a stroller walked up to Gonzalez, and they talked in Spanish a few paces from a memorial taking shape around a telephone pole outside the barbershop. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not the first time,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019ve killed many.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ruf\u00edna Rivera, 67, stepped into La Michoacana to buy a candle for Salgado. She\u2019d lived in east Houston for 50 years, but life had changed in the past year and a half as immigration enforcement intensified. People were scared to go to work, to go shopping, she said. Even her neighbors who are documented carry their legal documents whenever they leave their homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Berta Lopez prays at a memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo near the site where he was shot during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Thursday, July 9, 2026. Community members continued to visit the memorial throughout the day to leave flowers and candles, pray and sing.<\/p>\n
Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat this government has done, I don\u2019t agree with it,\u201d said 84-year-old Armando Grimaldo, standing across the street from the memorial. He\u2019s lived in Magnolia Park for four decades. \u201cThey are grabbing people of all kinds \u2026 people who have been working all their lives, who have contributed to the nation, who live well, who have families. They are trying to live like God wants, that\u2019s what I think.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Blanca Lopez, a mother of two who lives nearby, said she\u2019s been replaying what happened to Salgado in her head, anxious that it makes anyone in the community a target.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s fear of going out and not coming back home,\u201d the 40-year-old said. \u201cI have my children, and I don\u2019t want the same thing to happen to me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sobs started to punctuate her speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI tell them, \u2018Here we shouldn\u2019t have any racism against anyone because we are all human beings. We are all hardworking people. We fight to support our families.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Four other women approached the memorial and gently added more candles. The driver of a van stopped on Canal Street. He pulled over to offer them a lighter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A memorial near the site where Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent during a traffic stop in Houston, Thursday, July 9, 2026. Residents and community members visited throughout the day to leave flowers and candles, pray and sing in remembrance.<\/p>\n
Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle<\/p>\n
Gathering in memoriam\u00a0<\/p>\n
By evening Wednesday, hundreds had gathered for a vigil on Canal Street. Janie Torres marched with the crowd, livestreaming on her Facebook page.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened to my brother and where we are today, it\u2019s the same,\u201d Torres, 59, said. \u201cThey want to claim it\u2019s about immigration status, but my brother was a U.S. citizen, and he was in the military. It didn\u2019t matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not about documentation,\u201d she continued. \u201cThey are trying to erase us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Hundreds of demonstrators gather at Hidalgo Park following a march for the shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a federal agent during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. The shooting occurred the previous day and is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n
Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle<\/p>\n
They marched east on Canal, all the way to Hidalgo Park. Neighbors stepped out onto their porches to watch or record. Some joined the procession.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the park, they huddled around the Hidalgo Park Quiosco, which the neighborhood commissioned in the 1930s to commemorate Mexico\u2019s Independence. \u201cHouston Mexicans to their city,\u201d reads the inscription.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Friday morning, Torres returned to Canal Street. She stood, wearing a T-shirt with a photograph of her brother near her heart, watching the neighborhood continue its quiet work. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Neighbors set out buckets of water to keep the memorial\u2019s sunflowers, roses and marigolds bright. Mexican flags hung near red-white-and-blue ribbons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
By then, people had begun leaving their lighters behind for those who came after them, so the candles for Salgado would keep burning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A woman holds a sign during a protest following the shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a federal agent during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. The shooting occurred the previous day and is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n
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