On Tuesday, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the latest in a string of shootings by ICE officers who later claimed the victim attempted to hit them with a car.
Salgado Araujo was driving three men to a work site early Tuesday morning when they noticed an unmarked vehicle following them, according to a Texas Tribune interview with Hugo Balderas Ibarra, an attorney representing two of the three passengers in the van with Salgado Araujo. Surveillance footage captured snippets of the leadup to the shooting; an unmarked vehicle driving in the oncoming traffic lane to pass Salgado Araujo’s white van, and an agent opening the passenger door.
“My clients reiterated that at no point was there ever an agent standing in front of the vehicle, nor was an agent ever placed in the line of danger,” Balderas Ibarra said in a news conference Friday…