Surveillance Video Shows ICE Pursuit Prior to Fatal Shooting in Houston
Surveillance footage captured ICE agents chasing a white van in Houston before the driver, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, was shot, while officials say the officer acted in self-defense after the van allegedly rammed agents.
Shortly before 7 a.m. on Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in unmarked vehicles pursued a white work van on Canal Street in Houston's Magnolia Park neighborhood. Minutes later, the van's driver, 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, was shot in the abdomen and died at the scene.
ICE said a federal officer fired in self-defense after Araujo "weaponized" his van, claiming the vehicle rammed two ICE cars and attempted to run over an officer. A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman told the newspaper that Araujo and the three passengers in the van were not the original targets of the operation.
Bystander and local business surveillance footage obtained by the newspaper, though incomplete, shows the agents' aggressive driving and the subsequent confrontation, but does not clarify the exact moment the shooting occurred.