2026-07-10T19:53:47-0400 / https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-houston-shooting-lorenzo-salgado-araujo/
一名与目击者交谈过的律师周五表示，在一辆货车内目睹移民执法人员枪杀司机洛伦佐·萨尔加多·阿劳霍的三名男子称，这名墨西哥男子是从乘客车窗中弹的，且该警员当时并未受到任何威胁。
“他们证实，自始至终都没有一名移民海关执法局探员站在车辆正前方，”律师雨果·巴尔德拉斯-伊巴拉在新闻发布会上表示。“他们还证实，子弹是从侧面射来的，而非正面。”
负责监管移民和海关执法局的国土安全部尚未公布任何证据，以佐证涉事警员的说法——即萨尔加多·阿劳霍无视命令，驾驶白色货车撞向移民海关执法局车辆，且警员是出于自卫开枪。国土安全部周四在一份声明中表示，移民海关执法局警员当时是在寻找另一名嫌疑人，而非萨尔加多·阿劳霍。
得克萨斯州众议员西尔维亚·加西亚的选区涵盖枪击事件发生的休斯顿社区。她此前表示，移民海关执法局代理局长告知她，警员们以为货车内某个人——而非萨尔加多·阿劳霍——有最终递解令，但并未透露具体姓名。
“在收到执法伙伴提供的可靠线索后，我们的警员对目标地址进行了监视。事件发生数周前，他们注意到该地址停有两辆白色货车，”国土安全部在周四的声明中称。“7月7日，警员们即将抵达目标地址时，发现了一辆白色货车，车内一名男子与目标嫌疑人特征相似。警员随后示意停车。”
国土安全部周二最初称，移民海关执法局警员之所以锁定萨尔加多·阿劳霍，是因为他非法居住在美国。
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该部门此前称，萨尔加多·阿劳霍在无视“多次口头命令”并试图撞击一名警员后，警员出于自卫开枪。休斯顿消防员表示，萨尔加多·阿劳霍腹部中弹，随后他的车辆撞上了一辆移民海关执法局车辆。
据国土安全部消息，他被送往医院后因伤势过重身亡。
涉事警员未佩戴随身摄像机，移民海关执法局和国土安全部均未公布现场照片、视频或其他证据。国土安全部称，该外勤办公室的警员尚未配备随身摄像机，“原因是民主党接连发起的停摆”。
萨尔加多·阿劳霍现年52岁，是一名房屋建筑商，事发时正载着施工团队前往工地。他的家人表示，他已在美国生活超过35年，无犯罪记录，遇害时正接近完成合法身份申请的漫长流程。
移民海关执法局拘留了货车内另外三名男子，他们均向律师表示，没有警员站在货车前方，甚至无人处于危险之中。
“与这些男子交谈后，我毫不怀疑他们所说的是事实。我知道这些探员——以及该机构——会试图掩盖真相，”巴尔德拉斯-伊巴拉说道。
他表示，枪击事件后货车的照片似乎没有任何损坏痕迹。
移民海关执法局未公布被拘留男子的姓名，但家属表示已能够与他们进行简短交谈。萨尔加多·阿劳霍的兄弟就在被捕人员当中。
加西亚在同一场新闻发布会上表示，鉴于移民海关执法局的车辆无标识且未开灯，萨尔加多·阿劳霍在移民海关执法局试图截停他的车辆时驾车逃离并不令人意外。
“如果有人开着无标识车辆跟踪你，你会怎么做？”加西亚说道。
萨尔加多·阿劳霍至少是特朗普政府移民执法行动中第八名遇害者。此前没有移民执法人员因此类枪击案被起诉，且多起过往枪击事件的视频 footage 与联邦警员的说法相矛盾。
被拘留男子声称移民海关执法局逼迫他们自行遣返
朱安娜·德戈利亚多表示，移民海关执法局正在逼迫这些男子自行遣返，这将使他们更难向调查人员或其他人讲述事件经过。她的继兄丹尼尔·提拉多·潘托亚也在被拘留男子之列。德戈利亚多称，继兄在美国非法居住，但无犯罪记录。
“维护此次调查的公正性至关重要，”巴尔德拉斯-伊巴拉说道。“如果他们被遣返，一切都将无从谈起。”
巴尔德拉斯-伊巴拉表示，首要目标是确保这些男子从移民海关执法局羁押中获释，但他担心这些男子会被迫签署导致他们被驱逐出境的文件。
移民海关执法局的一名发言人在给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的声明中称，“我们绝不会逼迫任何人自行遣返，这完全是虚假指控。”
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国土安全部周四表示，数周前根据线索展开调查的警员在目标地址发现了两辆白色货车。该部门在声明中称，周二在前往该地址的途中，警员们看到了一辆白色货车，车内一名男子与他们要找的人特征相似。
“货车内没有人有逮捕令或任何法律问题，”德戈利亚多在给美联社的短信中说道。
国土安全部拒绝公布涉事警员姓名及其他信息
国土安全部表示，不会公布涉事警员的姓名，因为他们可能面临威胁和暴力，其家人也可能处于危险之中。
国土安全部也未回应其他信息查询，包括该警员在移民海关执法局任职时长，以及涉事人员是否已被行政休假。
与此前多起涉及联邦移民执法人员的死亡事件不同，萨尔加多·阿劳霍遇害后的数天里，公开出现的相关照片或视频极少。
美国拉丁裔公民联盟提供了5000美元悬赏，征集视频或其他证据，但该组织首席执行官胡安·普罗阿诺表示，车辆位置导致该区域的监控摄像头无法拍摄到枪击过程。
当地检察官正在与目击者接触
哈里斯县地方检察官肖恩·蒂尔表示，联邦官员并未邀请当地检察官参与调查，但他们过去三天一直在该休斯顿社区寻找监控录像并与目击者交谈。
蒂尔称，任何掌握视频或其他信息的人都必须向他的办公室提供线索，以便查清枪击事件的真相。
“我们将竭尽所能收集所有证据，最终让公众了解事发经过，”蒂尔说道。
联邦调查局严格控制着此案的证据，但休斯顿市长约翰·惠特米尔表示，他希望进行本地独立调查，警方局长将于下周与联邦调查人员会面，探讨可行方案。
“我们承认，周二上午这家联邦警察机构失控了，”惠特米尔说道。
休斯顿警方并不与移民海关执法局合作，市长表示他是通过媒体得知这起枪击事件的。
萨尔加多·阿劳霍的家人表示，他们是通过移民海关执法局的声明而非该机构直接通知得知他的死讯。加西亚称，警员扣押了他的随身物品，并将他送往医院后身亡，当时并未附上他的身份信息。
妮科尔·斯甘加对本文亦有贡献。
Attorney says detainees witnessed ICE officer shoot Houston driver through passenger window
2026-07-10T19:53:47-0400 / https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-houston-shooting-lorenzo-salgado-araujo/
Three men inside a van who witnessed the fatal shooting of the driver, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, by an immigration officer in Houston said the Mexican man was shot through a passenger window and that the officer was never threatened, a lawyer who has spoken with them said Friday.
“They confirmed that at no point was an ICE agent directly in front of the vehicle,” attorney Hugo Balderas-Ibarra said during a news conference. “They also confirmed the shots came from the side, not from the front.”
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has released no evidence to support the officer’s story that Salgado Araujo ignored their commands and rammed into an ICE vehicle with his white van on Tuesday, or that the officer fired in self-defense. DHS said in a statement Thursday that ICE officers were looking for a different person when they stopped Salgado Araujo’s vehicle.
Texas Rep. Sylvia Garcia, whose district includes the Houston neighborhood where the shooting occurred, has said the acting director of ICE told her officers thought someone in the van, but not Salgado Araujo, had a final order of removal but did not share a name.
“After receiving a credible tip from our law enforcement partners, our officers conducted surveillance on a target’s address. Weeks prior to the incident, they noted two white vans at the property,” DHS said in its Thursday statement. “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.”
DHS initially said Tuesday that ICE officers were targeting Salgado Araujo because he was living in the country without legal permission.
Rep. Sylvia Garcia speaks during a news briefing regarding her conversation with acting ICE Director David Venturella outside her office in Houston, on July 10, 2026. Annie Mulligan/AP Photo
The department alleged he was shot after he ignored “multiple verbal commands” and attempted to ram an officer who fired his weapon in self-defense. Houston firefighters said Salgado Araujo was struck in the abdomen, and then his car hit an ICE vehicle.
He was taken to the hospital but died of his injuries, according to DHS.
The officers were not wearing body cameras, and neither ICE nor DHS has released photos, videos or other evidence from the scene. DHS has said officers in that field office were not yet equipped with body cameras “due to back-to-back Democrat shutdowns.”
Salgado Araujo was a 52-year-old homebuilder who was shot and killed as he was driving his crew to a construction site. His 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 they all told a lawyer that no officer was in front of the van or even in danger.
“After speaking with these men, I have no doubt that what they’re saying is the truth. I know that these agents — the agency — is going to try to cover it up,” Balderas-Ibarra said.
Images of the van after the shooting appear to show no damage, he said.
ICE has not released the names of the detained men, but family members said they have been able to briefly talk with them. Salgado Araujo’s brother was among those arrested.
Garcia said at the same news conference it was not surprising that Salgado Araujo drove off when ICE tried to stop his vehicle, given that their vehicles were unmarked and had no lights.
“What would you do if you were being followed by someone and the cars were unmarked?” Garcia said.
Salgado Araujo was at least the eighth person to die during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign. No immigration officers have been charged in the killings, and video footage in several previous shootings has contradicted the accounts of federal officers.
The detained men claim ICE is pressuring them to self-deport
ICE is pressuring the men to self-deport, which would make it harder for them to share their version of events with investigators or others, said Juana Degollado, who said her stepfather, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, is among the detained men. She said he has no legal permission to live in the U.S. but has no criminal record.
“It is extremely important that we preserve the integrity of this investigation,” Balderas-Ibarra said. “That will all be out the window if they are deported.”
Balderas-Ibarra said the main goal is to secure the men’s release from ICE custody, but he’s concerned the men will be pressured into signing documents that will have them deported.
An ICE spokesperson told CBS News in a statement that “it is categorically false we would pressure someone to self-deport.”
Ronaldo Salgado and Lorenzo Jr., sons of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, hold a photograph of their father during a news conference Wednesday, July 8, 2026, in Houston. David J. Phillip/AP Photo
DHS said Thursday that officers investigating a tip weeks earlier saw two white vans at the address of a target. While heading to that address on Tuesday, officers saw a white van and someone inside who resembled the person they were looking for, the department said in a statement.
“No one in that van had warrants or any legal problem,” Degollado told The Associated Press in a text message.
DHS won’t release officer’s name or other information
DHS said it will not release the officer’s name because they could face threats and violence and their family could be at risk.
DHS also has not responded to requests for other information, including how long the officer has worked for ICE or whether anyone involved in the shooting is on administrative leave.
Unlike some previous deaths involving federal immigration officers, few photos or videos surrounding the shooting have emerged publicly in the days since Salgado Araujo’s death.
The League of United Latin American Citizens offered a $5,000 reward for video or other evidence, but the positions of the vehicles mean surveillance cameras in the area were blocked from recording the shooting, CEO Juan Proaño said.
Local prosecutors are talking to witnesses
Local prosecutors were not invited into the investigation by federal officials but have spent the past three days in the Houston neighborhood looking for surveillance footage and talking to witnesses, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said.
Teare said anyone with video or other information must share it with his office so the truth about the shooting can be determined.
“We will go to the ends of the Earth to collect all the evidence, so that we can eventually let the public know what happened,” Teare said.
The FBI is tightly controlling the evidence in the case, but Houston Mayor John Whitmire said he wants a local independent investigation and the police chief will meet with federal investigators next week to see what can be done.
“We recognize that it is a federal police agency that was out of control Tuesday morning,” Whitmire said.
Houston police do not work with ICE and the mayor said he found out about the shooting from the media.
Salgado Araujo’s family said they found out he was dead through the ICE statement instead of directly from the agency. Garcia said officers kept his belongings and sent him to the hospital where he died without including his name.
and Nicole Sganga contributed to this report.
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