{"id":373879,"date":"2026-07-15T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373879\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:06:32","slug":"houston-ice-shooting-what-we-know-about-the-3-men-detained-in-conroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373879\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston ICE shooting: What we know about the 3 men detained in Conroe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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United States Representative Sylvia Garcia is approached by a security guard after Garcia attempted to enter the Montgomery ICE Processing Center in Conroe, Saturday, July 11, 2026. Garcia plans to visit with the men who were riding with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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United States Representative Sylvia Garcia walks to her car after talking to the media before entering the Montgomery ICE Processing Center in Conroe, Saturday, July 11, 2026. Garcia plans to visit with the men who were riding with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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A sign displays where the Montgomery ICE Processing Center is located in Conroe, Saturday, July 11, 2026. United States Representative Sylvia Garcia plans to visit with the men who were riding with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Jacob Lujan\/Houston Chronicle<\/p>\n

Daniel Tirado Pantoja, Jose Trinidad Rojas and Victor Salgado were handcuffed and confined in an ICE processing center in Conroe after witnessing an ICE agent\u00a0shoot and kill\u00a0Lorenzo Salgado Araujo<\/a> in Magnolia Park on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

They were passengers in Salgado’s van when ICE agents began chasing the vehicle in unmarked SUVs with no sirens or cameras to record the encounter, according to Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, who represents the area. The three survivors were detained at the scene and have gone on to\u00a0present accounts that are strikingly different<\/a> than ICE’s explanation of the shooting.<\/p>\n

THEIR STORIES: Key witnesses in van dispute ICE account of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s shooting, report says<\/a><\/p>\n

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ICE\u00a0claims Lorenzo Salgado used his van to ram an agency vehicle<\/a> and to attempt to run over an agent, but the detainees said no agent was ever within a direct line of\u00a0Salgado’s van, their attorney Hugo\u00a0Balderas-Ibarra said. Acting ICE Director David J. Venturella later told Garcia that Salgado was not the intended target<\/a> of its operation, according to the congresswoman.<\/p>\n

LATEST PROTEST: Houston protesters demand answers after fatal ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo<\/a><\/p>\n

The three men are now in detention at the Montgomery Processing Center in Conroe<\/a>, and Balderas-Ibarra is pushing for their release. He represents Trinidad and Rojas and did not return a request for comment on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“They’re in good spirits considering the circumstances,” he\u00a0said of his clients in a Facebook video Saturday evening. “We’re going\u00a0to continue working to get them the justice that they deserve.”<\/p>\n

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Here’s what we know about\u00a0Tirado, Rojas and Salgado:<\/p>\n

Daniel Tirado Pantoja<\/p>\n

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Daniel Tirado Pantoja was one of the workers who was detained at the scene of a fatal ICE shooting in Houston’s Magnolia Park neighborhood on Tuesday, July 7, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Daniel\u00a0Tirado Pantoja worked for Lorenzo Salgado’s construction business, and has lived in the U.S. for 30 years, his stepdaughter Juana Degollado told the Chronicle<\/a>. He was 43 at the time of his arrest and has a birthday this month, she\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

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He’s been married for 12 years and has a teenage son who’s a U.S. citizen. Degollado called her stepfather a great person with a “big heart for everyone.”<\/p>\n

She said Tirado spoke to his wife Wednesday morning for the first time since his arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He just sounds really sad,” Degollado said on Wednesday. “He spoke to my mom. They were both crying, and my mom was telling him it’s going to be OK, that we’re going to do whatever we can to help him out.”<\/p>\n

Jose Trinidad Rojas<\/p>\n

Jose\u00a0Rojas is a 51-year-old Mexican citizen who has lived in the U.S. for decades, the Associated Press reported. He’s also a construction worker.<\/p>\n

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Balderas-Ibarra represents him as well as\u00a0Tirado.<\/p>\n

Victor\u00a0Salgado<\/p>\n

Victor Salgado\u00a0is Lorenzo’s younger brother and was among the construction workers in the van at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old\u00a0was in the passenger seat at the time, the Washington Post reported. An ICE officer held a gun directly in front of Victor’ face and fired at\u00a0Lorenzo after the van was parked, Balderas-Ibarra said.<\/p>\n

Garcia said the FBI interviewed Victor Salgado on Tuesday, but law enforcement had not interacted with any of the men as of Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It’s unclear who is representing Victor Salgado.<\/p>\n

This post includes previous reporting by Juli\u00e1n\u00a0Aguilar,\u00a0Sam Gonz\u00e1lez Kelly and John Wayne Ferguson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States Representative Sylvia Garcia is approached by a security guard after Garcia attempted to enter the Montgomery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-373879","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\/373879","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=373879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}