{"id":421077,"date":"2026-08-30T14:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421077\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T14:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:30:27","slug":"houston-ice-shooting-could-go-before-grand-jury-soon-sean-teare-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421077\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston ICE shooting could go before grand jury soon, Sean Teare says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teare\u2019s announcement comes less than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/immigration\/article\/lorenzo-salgado-ice-released-detention-22403029.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">24 hours after a second witness, Daniel Tirado Pantoja<\/a>, was released from federal custody. The investigation into Salgado\u2019s fatal shooting July 7 by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has entered \u201ca tipping point,\u201d Teare said in an appearance on Hello Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysically, when you\u2019re talking the evidence from before it occurred and what happened that day, I think we\u2019ve gotten just about all we\u2019re going to get,\u201d\u00a0Teare said. \u201cThere are still pieces of evidence we need from the federal government that we are waiting on. But we are much more moving into the evaluation phase and determining what, if any, charge we\u2019re going to present to a grand jury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials with\u00a0Teare\u2019s office declined to provide a more precise timeline in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Two witnesses in the van the day\u00a0Salgado was fatally shot in Magnolia Park have been released from federal custody, but Teare said a third was still fighting his detention in court as of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Local prosecutors have interviewed all three of the men at some point in federal custody,\u00a0Teare said.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of evidence of the shooting itself suggests ICE has changed its tactics,\u00a0Teare said, and is moving toward more surreptitious enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agency has adapted from Minnesota and now you\u2019re doing these operations at 7 a.m. on a side street,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The name of the ICE agent who killed\u00a0Salgado has not been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teare\u2019s announcement comes less than 24 hours after a second witness, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, was released from federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,121850],"class_list":["post-421077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-lmtshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421077","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=421077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}