HOUSTON \u2013 Surrounded by family, neighbors and community advocates, a new mural was unveiled in Houston\u2019s East End to honor Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, three months after he was fatally shot by a federal immigration agent.<\/p>\n
The memorial wall in Magnolia Park serves as both a neighborhood tribute and a permanent reminder of the family\u2019s ongoing demand for accountability. Salgado Araujo was killed on July 7 during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in which federal officials later acknowledged he was not the intended target.<\/p>\n
The unveiling drew dozens of residents and included community remarks, a prayer and live music.<\/p>\n
For his family, seeing his portrait painted across the neighborhood where he worked and raised his children offered a rare moment of solace.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s heartwarming, but it\u2019s also bittersweet,\u201d his son Ronaldo Salgado said during the gathering. \u201cMy dad was this very private person who didn\u2019t want to be known by the rest of the world. But it just means a lot for my family for him to be honored this way in the East End community where my dad laid down some roots and this is where we grew up, where we were raised. This is where he ended up dying and was buried here. We\u2019re East End \u2018til the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
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