{"id":417110,"date":"2026-08-26T10:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417110\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:04:20","slug":"houston-deadly-ice-shooting-second-witness-to-killing-of-lorenzo-araujo-ordered-to-be-released-from-custody-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417110\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston deadly ICE shooting: Second witness to killing of Lorenzo Araujo ordered to be released from custody. records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A federal judge has ordered that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security release from custody the second of three witnesses to the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/live-updates\/lorenzo-salgado-araujo-shot-killed-ice-agent-houston-authorities-confirm-live-updates\/19477523\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo<\/a> by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, court records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In court documents filed Monday, Daniel Tirado Pantoja must be released from custody within 48 hours of the order. According to the order, authorities must release Pantoja in a public space in the Southern District of Texas, and his lawyers must be given three hours&#8217; notice of his release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This marks the second witness to the deadly shooting in Houston&#8217;s East End ordered to be released by a federal judge. In July, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/ice-shooting-houston-witness-lorenzo-salgado-araujos-death-released-detention-center-judges-ruling\/19596148\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego was released from ICE detention<\/a> after a federal judge&#8217;s order. Both Pantoja and Rojas Pliego were passengers in Salgado Araujo&#8217;s van when ICE officers began following the vehicle before shooting and killing him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The officers who stopped the men had no body cameras or dashcams, making the three men inside the van the only known witnesses to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The third witness, Salgado Araujo&#8217;s brother, Victor Hugo Salgado Araujo, is still detained. Similar to Pantoja and Rojas Pliego, Victor Hugo Salgado Araujo has filed a petition to be released from immigration detention.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A federal judge has ordered that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security release from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[145339,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-417110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-145339","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417110","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=417110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}