Witnesses dispute ICE account of fatal shooting in Houston
People in the van say federal agents misdescribed the Texas shooting that killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, while their lawyer says they are being pushed to accept deportation.
Witnesses to a fatal Immigration and Customs Enforcement shooting in Houston, Texas, have challenged the Trump administration’s account of how Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed this week. Their lawyer said the men in the van also face pressure to agree to deportation orders.
According to the men, Salgado did not use the vehicle as a weapon against ICE officers, contrary to the government’s description. They told their lawyer there was no agent standing in front of the van when the shots were fired.
The same account says the gunfire came from the sides of the vehicle, not from directly ahead. The three men in the van were arrested during the incident, their lawyer said.
The dispute comes as investigators review footage from the episode, according to reporting by Al Jazeera and The Guardian. The case has become part of a wider fight over how federal immigration agents handled the encounter in Texas.
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