Aaron Reitz did not reveal what FBI testing found in bags taken from Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s van after his July 7 shooting death. Other men in the van said the bags contained salt.
Harris County leaders are set to announce funding for an independent review of the fatal ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo last month.
A federal judge ruled José Trinidad Rojas Pliego can remain free while the government appeals the order that released him from ICE custody.
The lawsuit alleges Hugo Balderas-Ibarra’s handling of an immigration case resulted in his client’s deportation. He denies the allegations.
KPRC 2 asked Houston Mayor John Whitmire directly what options Houston leaders have to protect undocumented immigrants with no criminal record from being detained.
Republican business leaders said immigration raids on the Latino community would be top of mind at the ballot box in the midterm elections.
A witness to a fatal shooting of a Houston man by a federal immigration agent has been released from a detention facility.
José Trinidad Rojas Pliego has been released from the Montgomery Processing Center, according to his family’s attorney.
José Trinidad Rojas Pliego is set to be released from the Montgomery Processing Center at any moment, according to his family’s attorney. Rojas Pliego was inside a van in Magnolia Park when ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on July 7. ICE was given 48 hours by a federal judge to release him.
A federal judge ordered ICE to release Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego, who was detained after agents shot and killed the driver of the vehicle he was riding in on July 7.
A federal judge on Monday ordered that Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego be released within 48 hours. He was one of three passengers in the van Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving when he was fatally shot by ICE.
President Donald Trump’s border czar said the vetting of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer involved in the deadly shooting of a Colombian native in Maine is under internal review.
The FBI suggested plastic bags in the van contained methamphetamine. The agency hasn’t released official test results.
U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia says the substance found inside of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s work van after the fatal shooting involving an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has been confirmed not to be a narcotic.
Mealer, the GOP nominee in Texas’ 9th Congressional District, would represent Houston’s Magnolia Park, where an ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, under the GOP’s new redistricting map.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is holding an oversight hearing in Houston on Friday, focused on recent deadly incidents involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including the fatal shooting of Houston resident Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Two witnesses have told a federal court the immigration agent who fatally shot a Mexican man in Houston on July 7 was in no danger of being run over.
The newly released, handwritten statements by two men who saw Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s shooting say he never threatened ICE agents.
Activists took their demands for justice to Houston City Hall Tuesday, laying out plans for a citywide protest as they continue to push for answers in the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Two men who were inside the van when federal immigration agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo have been formally certified by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office as victims of alleged violent crimes, according to newly filed federal court documents.
The order applies to one of the three passengers in the van Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving when he was fatally shot by ICE. Lawyers are seeking the men’s release from detention.
A federal prosecutor in Texas has shared new details about the shooting of Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE officer in early July.
More than 30 community organizations and labor groups will hold a press conference Friday to call for citywide participation in an emergency protest Sunday demanding justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent on July 7 in east Houston.
Hundreds of people filled a funeral home in Houston’s East End neighborhood Thursday night to pay their respects to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a husband, father of three and fan of the Mexico national soccer team.
As his sons greeted visitors near the casket of their father, who was killed in an ICE operation, some at the public visitation said they knew him well — even if they’d never met him.
U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz on Thursday issued his first public statement about the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a federal immigration agent in Houston’s Magnolia Park neighborhood, saying multiple agencies continue to investigate the incident and urging the public to allow the investigation to run its course.
The family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man fatally shot by a federal immigration agent in Houston, is holding a public vigil for him.
While Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is being laid to rest Thursday, his family is pushing back against allegations stemming from a recent FBI search warrant, saying the “white crystal-like substance” found inside his work van was not methamphetamine but a “homemade electrolyte” mixture used to stay hydrated while working in the Texas heat.
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, whose office is running an investigation into the shooting, also expressed doubt that there were drugs in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s van.
State Sen. Carol Alvarado is questioning the legitimacy of an FBI search warrant that claims agents saw multiple bags of a “white crystal-like substance” believed to be methamphetamine inside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s work van, days after he was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Houston.
More than a dozen attorneys and former law enforcement officials reviewed footage of the deadly ICE car pursuit for The Texas Tribune. They said ICE’s tactics were breaking with best practice and possibly the law.
Attorney Hugo Balderas-Ibarra, representing two men involved in a recent ICE van shooting, was found guilty of misdemeanor domestic violence battery in Florida and received probation and a batterers intervention program.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has confirmed the Texas Rangers will be conducting an investigation into the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE agent in Houston.
A federal search warrant filed by the FBI alleges investigators found multiple bags containing a “white crystal-like substance” inside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s work van after he was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Houston last week.
As Latino and immigrant communities mourn the death of a Houston man, undocumented neighbors remain in hiding for fear of being next.
A former employee of Houston immigration attorney Hugo Balderas-Ibarra is speaking out, raising concerns about his handling of immigration cases as he faces felony charges in Texas and Florida.
Houston Police Department Chief J. Noe Diaz sent a letter to the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety requesting the Texas Rangers conduct their own investigation into the shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE agent.
Tensions ran high at Houston City Hall Tuesday as dozens of community members demanded more action from city leaders, one week after an ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
“There is no point in pretending that ICE is here to protect us,” a resident told the City Council in its first meeting since an immigration agent killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
In this week's episode, our hosts speak with Texas Tribune reporters Uriel J. García and Colleen DeGuzman about the unanswered questions and investigations in response to the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Mexico has formally requested that U.S. state attorneys general investigate cases of migrants who have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody or during raids.
A familiar story has unfolded in the Maine city of Biddeford, where a federal officer shot and killed a man driving a vehicle during an immigration enforcement operation.
U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee of Houston said the reported pause was not enough: “A temporary training won’t solve a deeply ingrained problem.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly issued a nationwide directive ordering officers to stop pursuing people in vehicles following two fatal ICE shootings in the past nine days.
Texas Rangers say they have not been asked, by federal or local authorities, to investigate the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Trump administration officials have told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings in little over a week, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the man who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Houston last week, is inviting the public to pay their respects during a viewing this week.
Harris County court records show the attorney representing two ICE detainees is facing a pending felony assault family violence charge.
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said it has been days since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo died after an ICE agent shot him on Canal Street in Houston’s Magnolia Park neighborhood, and federal authorities have yet to provide full transparency or answers about what happened.
Harris County officials say they will fund an independent investigation to identify the ICE agents involved in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's killing.
Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia says two eyewitnesses dispute ICE's version of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, reveals new details from her interviews with detainees, and reacts to another ICE-related fatal shooting in Maine.
Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare are set to hold a news conference Monday to discuss the independent investigation into the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
More than a hundred people gathered outside Houston City Hall Sunday night to honor Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, filling the plaza with candles, chalk art and calls for justice after the fatal ICE shooting.
Protesters gathered outside Houston City Hall calling for an independent investigation into the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, saying they do not trust federal authorities to investigate the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Protesters demanded feds release footage of the shooting and the three men who were in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo before he was killed.
Houston labor organizations, community leaders, and elected officials gathered Saturday morning at the SEIU Texas office to mourn Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents earlier in the week.
The builder got up every morning long before dawn, left home to pick up his construction crew and then headed out to work on yet another house somewhere across the sprawl of Houston.
Almost none of the state’s major Republican officials have weighed in on the killing of a Houston man by federal agents, and U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Houston said she had not spoken with Gov. Greg Abbott.
Homeland Security has not fulfilled its promise to equip all officers with body cameras, despite receiving significant funding.
"They control the scene, the deceased, the van, the witnesses. So yes, they control the investigation," Mayor John Whitmire said.
Mayor John Whitmire is expected to provide an update Friday afternoon on the investigation into the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, days after the incident sparked calls for greater transparency from local leaders.
LULAC says three men detained by ICE after the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are being pressured to sign self-deportation paperwork. The organization says the men are key witnesses and should remain in the U.S. while the investigation continues.
The other men in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo told their lawyer that agents fired into the vehicle unprovoked, according to the Washington Post.
Three men who survived a fatal shooting involving federal immigration officers in Houston say no officer was threatened.
U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia will host a joint press conference Friday morning to discuss the new developments in the ICE-involved shooting that killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Tuesday in Houston’s East End.
KPRC 2 obtained new surveillance video showing the moments leading up to the deadly ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. A former Secret Service agent says the footage raises questions but is not clear enough to determine whether the use of deadly force was justified.
U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Houston said ICE’s acting director told her that agents were not wearing body cameras and promised that they would start soon.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a new statement Thursday following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in east Houston on July 7.
A Texas congresswoman says a Mexican man living in the U.S. who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was not the person federal authorities had been targeting in a Houston operation.
Two days after a federal immigration agent fatally shot a man during an enforcement operation in Houston’s East End, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed there is no body camera footage because the officers involved were not wearing body-worn cameras.
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expands immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump’s second administration, several fatal shootings involving ICE agents have drawn national attention.
District Attorney Sean Teare said he is in contact with prosecutors in Minnesota who are investigating the January shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents.
Four members of Congress demand that ICE and Homeland Security release evidence supporting its claims that an ICE agent shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in self-defense.
Mexico plans to request criminal charges over the deaths of 17 Mexicans in ICE custody or during immigration operations under the Trump administration.
Most migrant deaths in Texas have occurred while they were detained since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown. Several were from natural causes.
Hundreds gathered in Houston's Magnolia Park neighborhood Wednesday to honor Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and demand answers after the Houston man's fatal shooting during an ICE enforcement operation. Protesters called for an independent investigation as a memorial continued to grow at the scene.
Speakers at the vigil and a statement from Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s family elevated calls for an independent investigation into his death and raised doubts about ICE’s description of events.
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare is urging anyone who witnessed Tuesday’s fatal ICE shooting in east Houston to come forward as his office continues a parallel review into the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire stated the city cannot investigate the fatal ICE shooting in Magnolia Park because the Houston Police Department was not involved and lacks jurisdiction.
Mexico says it will be pursuing legal action against the United States after Tuesday’s fatal shooting involving a Mexican national and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s family, federal lawmakers and community advocates are pushing for local scrutiny, expressing distrust in federal officials.
The death of a man who was fleeing federal immigration agents in Florida is at least the 10th fatality linked to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s son said his father would not have tried to flee a law enforcement stop. Local leaders say they’ve received little information from federal officials about the shooting.
The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the U.S. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving to a construction job Tuesday morning when he was killed.
The son of a man fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent said Wednesday that he wants his father to be remembered as “a family man,” not simply as another immigration headline.
White House Border Czar Tom Homan said ICE is making record arrests following a funding boost, with further increases expected as more agents complete training. His comments come amid controversy over a fatal ICE shooting in Houston involving Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who ICE said tried to flee and used his vehicle against agents before being shot.
Family and community leaders are demanding transparency after an ICE officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during an enforcement operation in Houston’s Magnolia Park neighborhood.
Houston leaders and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) are calling for an independent investigation after an ICE agent fatally shot an undocumented immigrant during an attempted arrest Tuesday in east Houston.
The agency said the man was an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. His son said he’d lived here for 35 years and was attempting to obtain a work permit.
A man was rushed to the hospital after being shot Tuesday morning in east Houston, prompting a heavy law enforcement presence in the area.