{"id":376458,"date":"2026-07-17T04:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376458\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T04:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:35:12","slug":"family-honors-lorenzo-salgado-after-fatal-ice-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376458\/","title":{"rendered":"Family honors Lorenzo Salgado after fatal ICE shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the 52-year-old\u00a0Salgado\u2019s death, his family and community leaders have called for an independent\u00a0investigation and\u00a0greater transparency about the shooting<\/a>. League of United Latin American Citizens CEO Juan\u00a0Proa\u00f1o previously said Salgado\u2019s wife struggled to claim his body because of documentation issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Minutes before the public visitation opened, people wearing blue polo shirts, navy dresses and denim jackets lined up outside the funeral home.\u00a0LULAC volunteers handed out snacks, water and cards for visitors to write their condolences.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Attendees included\u00a0East End residents, the Hispanic community and local leaders, such as Mayor John\u00a0Whitmire and Letitia Plummer, the Democratic nominee for Harris County judge.<\/p>\n

Cars pulled into the funeral home parking lot throughout the evening.\u00a0Two hours after the visitation began, the line\u00a0still stretched around the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As people waited outside the funeral home, they spoke in Spanish and English about their lives, growing up in the East End and the fallout following\u00a0Salgado\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re Hispanic, (ICE) makes us feel afraid,\u201d said Rose Gutierrez, an East End resident. \u201cPeople (in the community) don\u2019t want to go outside, go to work, kids don\u2019t want to go to school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gutierrez said several months ago, she started bringing her passport with her at all times in case she was stopped by federal law enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Across the street from the funeral home, some attendees stopped at a small cart selling duros and Takis, where they bought snacks and talked with the owner about the fatal ICE shooting.<\/p>\n

Denise Zuniga and her daughter, Xilmara Zuniga, a former student of Salgado\u2019s son when he taught at YES Prep Northside, said they came to support the Salgado family.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it\u2019s been a bit on the scary side looking at the news,\u201d the elder Zuniga said. \u201cSomething unfortunate happening so close to home, it does bring stress to the Hispanic community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salgado was driving Daniel\u00a0Tirado Pantoja, Jose Trinidad Rojas and his\u00a0brother, Victor Salgado, to work when ICE agents began pursuing\u00a0the vehicle in unmarked\u00a0SUVs without sirens or body cameras to record the encounter,\u00a0according to U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia<\/a>. The three men remain at an ICE processing center in Conroe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Texas Rangers will\u00a0investigate the shooting death<\/a>. The announcement came after the Department of Public Safety had previously said the rangers would not investigate without a request from federal or local officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the 52-year-old\u00a0Salgado\u2019s death, his family and community leaders have called for an independent\u00a0investigation and\u00a0greater transparency about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-376458","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\/376458","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=376458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}