Federal officials refusing to release name of ICE officer who fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

By — Lekan Oyekanmi, Associated Press Lekan Oyekanmi, Associated Press By — Jack Brook, Associated Press Jack Brook, Associated Press By — Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-officials-refusing-to-release-name-of-ice-officer-who-fatally-shot-lorenzo-salgado-araujo Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Federal officials refusing to release name of ICE officer who fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Politics Jul 10, 2026 1:20 PM EDT HOUSTON (AP) — Federal officials are refusing to release the name of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot a Mexican man during a traffic stop in Houston, and scrutiny of the shooting is growing especially after authorities said the man killed was not the person ICE was trying to find. WATCH: Rep. Garcia holds news conference on fatal ICE shooting in Houston The shooting in Houston has revived critical voices deriding the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and how ICE operates, especially after immigration arrests around the country surged to 10,000 over a recent five-day period, fueled in part by massive Congressional funding. No evidence has emerged to support the Department of Homeland Security's version of events that led to the killing early Tuesday of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo — that he rammed an ICE vehicle when it was chasing his white van and that an officer opened fire in self-defense. Educate your inbox Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Three other men inside the van told an attorney that officers are lying about what happened and that Salgado Araujo did not ram an ICE vehicle but that he was shot through the passenger side window. READ MORE: What to know about the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE The officers were not wearing body cameras and neither ICE nor DHS, which oversees that agency, have released photos, videos or other evidence from the scene. Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old homebuilder who was shot and killed as he drove his crew to a construction site, was not who ICE was looking for, Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia said. Salgado Araujo's family said he had lived in the U.S. for more than 35 years, had no criminal record and was close to finishing the long process of obtaining legal status when he was killed. ICE detained the other three men in the van and a lawyer who said he has spoken to them said the version told by DHS is "completely false." READ MORE: Mexico to seek criminal charges over deaths linked to ICE after fatal shooting of Houston man "At no point did they ever use the van to ram into the ICE agents and at no point were these ICE agents lives ever in danger," attorney Hugo Balderas-Ibarra said on Instagram. The other men detained by ICE included Salgado Araujo's brother. ICE has not released their names, but family memb