WATCH LIVE: Rep. Garcia holds news conference on fatal ICE shooting in Houston

By — Rebecca Santana, Associated Press Rebecca Santana, Associated Press By — Jack Brook, Associated Press Jack Brook, Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-rep-garcia-holds-news-conference-on-fatal-ice-shooting-in-houston Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter WATCH LIVE: Rep. Garcia holds news conference on fatal ICE shooting in Houston Politics Jul 10, 2026 12:00 PM EDT 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, Rep. Sylvia Garcia said Thursday. Rep. Sylvia Garcia is expected to hold a news conference at 12 p.m. EDT. Watch live in our video player above. The Democratic congresswoman, whose district includes the Houston neighborhood where the shooting occurred, said acting ICE Director David Venturella told her the agency has confirmed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo "was not a target." Salgado Araujo was a homebuilder who 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 early Tuesday morning, according to his family. Educate your inbox Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. "We've got to do something. This is just one more death too many," Garcia said in an interview with MS Now. "And if we've got to bring outside, independent folks to come in and look at it, we should do that." A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately return an email seeking comment late Thursday. DHS, which oversees ICE, previously said that federal officers were conducting a targeted operation to arrest a person in the country without legal status when they attempted to stop a vehicle driven by Salgado Araujo. The agency has said Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle and that a federal officer fired a weapon in self-defense. Asked whether ICE agents had been specifically targeting Salgado Araujo, DHS said earlier Thursday that officers had been surveilling a property where they had previously observed two white vans. "On July 7, officers were almost at the target's address when they observed a white van with an individual who resembled the target. Officers then initiated the vehicle stop," the department said. The federal agents weren't wearing body-worn cameras, DHS said, and few photos or videos surrounding the shooting have emerged publicly in the days since the encounter, unlike other deaths involving federal immigration officers. In a statement, DHS said the agents at the scene in Houston had not yet been issued body cameras, which it blamed on Democrats and a record government shutdown that was fueled by President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee, a Democrat who also represents Houston, said if the agent