We hope you had a chance to read our earlier message — copied below for anyone
who might have missed it — about the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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This past Tuesday, a man named Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Houston, Texas.

* Mr. Salgado Araujo was 52 years old. He had lived in Houston for 35 years. He
was a husband. He had three children. He owned a construction business. He
had no criminal record whatsoever.

* He had picked up three members of his construction crew and they were on
their way to work when their van was targeted by unmarked vehicles. There is
surveillance video of the unmarked vehicles driving aggressively and cutting
the van off.

* An ICE agent shot Mr. Salgado Araujo in the abdomen. Bystander video shows
Mr. Salgado Araujo on the ground, calling for help.

* ICE agents removed all identifying information from Mr. Salgado Araujo before
he was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

* It has since been revealed that neither Mr. Salgado Araujo, nor any of the
other men in the van, were the person the ICE agents were actually looking
for. (Which is not to say that shooting him would have been OK if he had been
who they were looking for.)

* ICE is claiming that Mr. Salgado Araujo “weaponized his vehicle” and tried to
run over an agent, who fired “in self-defense.” That, of course, is exactly
what the Trump regime claimed when one of its agents murdered Renee Good in
broad daylight earlier this year in Minneapolis — a claim irrefutably
disproved by video evidence.

* The three other men in the van — who were separated immediately after the
shooting — have each independently stated that Mr. Salgado Araujo did not use
his vehicle as a weapon, that he did not attempt to run over the agents, and
that no agent had been positioned in front of the vehicle.

* Notably, the ICE agents were not wearing body cameras, and federal
authorities have released precisely zero video footage related to the
shooting.

Federal agents carrying out the Trump regime’s stupid and racist campaign of
terror against immigrants have shot at least 21 people (that we know of) since
Trump returned to power. Five of those people have died as a result of being
shot by Trump’s “immigration enforcement” thugs: Ruben Ray Martinez (Texas,
March 2025); Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez (Illinois, September 2025); Renee Good
(Minnesota, January 2026); Alex Pretti (Minnesota, January 2026); Lorenzo
Salgado Araujo (Texas, July 2026).

We simply cannot trust ICE, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), or the
FBI to adequately investigate this killing. In fact, in this case and others,
federal authorities are actually impeding investigations by state and local law
enforcement.

Mr. Salgado Araujo’s family is calling for the appointment of a special counsel
to investigate his killing and for the Trump regime — including ICE, DHS, the
FBI, and the Justice Department — to cooperate with investigations by local law
enforcement. [[link removed]]

Join Public Citizen in demanding a fair and impartial investigation into the
killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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- Robert Weissman & Lisa Gilbert, Co-Presidents of Public Citizen


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