An ICE officer fatally shot a Mexican national Tuesday morning in Houston during an attempted traffic stop to conduct an immigration arrest, the Department of Homeland Security said.<\/p>\n
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The agency said in a statement that ICE officers were trying to arrest Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who it said is not authorized to be in the country, about 6:50 a.m.<\/p>\n
DHS accused the man of trying to evade arrest.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom information we are receiving, he rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands, and weaponized his vehicle,\u201d DHS said in its statement. <\/p>\n
An ICE officer fired his weapon \u201cin self-defense\u201d \u2014 striking the driver, Salgado Araujo, according to the agency.<\/p>\n
DHS said the man was taken to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n
FBI officials said in a statement that the agency sent an evidence response team from its Houston field office to the scene but clarified that the team is investigating a potential assault on a federal officer.<\/p>\n
It is not investigating the shooting, the agency said.<\/p>\n
According to the League of United Latin American Citizens, an immigrant advocacy group that has been in touch with the victim\u2019s family, Salgado Araujo was driving around the historically Latino neighborhood of Magnolia Park looking for day laborers when he was shot and killed. <\/p>\n
One of his sons witnessed his death, said Domingo Garcia, chairman of the LULAC Adelante PAC, and several witnesses took photos and videos of the incident. <\/p>\n
Salgado Araujo was applying for legal citizenship status in the U.S., LULAC officials said. It was not immediately clear how long he had been in the country.<\/p>\n
LULAC called for an independent investigation conducted by local officials and compared Tuesday\u2019s fatal shooting incident to previous deaths associated with immigration enforcement, including that of Renee Good in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not an isolated event across the nation,\u201d LULAC National President Roman Palomares told reporters Tuesday afternoon. \u201cWe have seen a pattern of ICE involvement in shootings and excessive use of force. Each time a family is left without answers, and a community is left in fear.\u201d <\/p>\n
Houston police have said they are not involved, and the mayor\u2019s office referred all questions to Homeland Security. <\/p>\n
LULAC CEO Juan Proa\u00f1o said: \u201cThe federal government handed us a story about Renee Good, and the story fell apart moments after the video was released. Today, in Houston, we\u2019re being handed the same story about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in almost the same exact words. Prove it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ICE officer fatally shot a Mexican national Tuesday morning in Houston during an attempted traffic stop to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-749419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}