休斯顿检察官:若致命枪击案中存在不当行为,已“完全准备就绪”起诉移民海关执法局特工


2026年7月14日 22:21 美国东部时间 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻

作者:卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔韦斯 移民事务通讯员
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休斯顿讯——哈里斯县地区检察官肖恩·蒂尔是休斯顿地区的首席检察官,他周二对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示,如果上周一名墨西哥移民遭致命枪击事件中存在刑事不当行为,其办公室“完全准备就绪”起诉联邦移民执法特工。

蒂尔称,其办公室正在调查7月7日一名移民海关执法局特工杀害洛伦佐·萨尔加多·阿拉霍的案件,并表示当地调查人员已发出“数十份”传票。

这位县检察官表示,他已启动对这起枪击事件的“独立、透明的调查”,因为社区有权获得这样的调查。

“随着调查推进,如果案件和证据显示存在刑事不当行为,我们将毫不犹豫地对相关人员提起刑事指控,无论他们是联邦特工还是普通民众,”蒂尔在休斯顿办公室接受采访时说道,“你不能走进我们的社区,夺走他人的生命,然后躲在警徽背后逃避责任。”

美国国土安全部声称,萨尔加多·阿拉霍在交通拦截期间用他的货车作为武器,促使一名移民海关执法局特工开枪射击。该部门表示,萨尔加多·阿拉霍非法留在美国,但承认当时遇到他的移民海关执法局特工最初是在寻找另一个人。

萨尔加多·阿拉霍的家人强烈否认国土安全部的指控,称他是一位慈爱的父亲,已在美国生活了三十多年。在他遭致命枪击不到一周后,缅因州一名移民海关执法局官员开枪打死了另一名司机。

美国联邦调查局表示,正在调查休斯顿的这起事件,但将其列为针对联邦特工的潜在袭击案件。负责调查本机构雇员枪击事件的国土安全部监察长办公室也正在开展独立调查。

蒂尔告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻,当地调查人员正在考虑多项可能的罪名,包括谋杀、过失杀人以及篡改证据。

蒂尔指出,移民海关执法局尚未向其办公室提供任何协助调查的支持或信息,并表示在枪击事件发生一周后,当地调查人员仍不知道开枪的联邦特工的姓名。

“我们没有从移民海关执法局收到任何参与此次枪击事件的特工姓名,我甚至无法形容这有多奇怪,”蒂尔补充道,“即使是和联邦合作伙伴一起处理非致命枪击案件,我们也能知道当天涉案人员的姓名。”

蒂尔援引自己在执法领域的长期从业经历,包括在休斯顿警察学院的工作经历,表示移民海关执法局的办案方式“完全不像”他曾供职的执法机构的行动和培训标准。

“从我们目前掌握的所有情况来看,要么这些特工完全未经训练,要么他们故意置身于可以合理向车内开枪的情境中,”他补充道。

周一,在休斯顿和缅因州的致命枪击事件引发轩然大波后,移民海关执法局禁止递解部门特工在大多数情况下进行车辆拦截,这一暂停令预计将持续到发布新指引为止。

蒂尔表示,其办公室还已提交文件,帮助上周致命枪击案的证人获得签证,这样他们在调查期间不会被驱逐出境。当时与萨尔加多·阿拉霍同乘一辆货车的几名男子目前仍被移民海关执法局拘留在得克萨斯州,并面临递解出境,其中包括萨尔加多·阿拉霍的兄弟。

蒂尔称,这一程序可以帮助他们获得U签证,若他们被归类为协助执法调查的犯罪受害者,该签证可保护他们免遭驱逐。

“他们是这起枪击事件的三名目击证人,”蒂尔说,“在此次调查中,没有什么比他们的证词更重要的了。”

帮助萨尔加多·阿拉霍家人的拉美公民联盟首席执行官胡安·普罗阿诺敦促联邦官员承诺不会驱逐这些证人。

“洛伦佐·萨尔加多·阿拉霍理应得到全面且独立的调查,”普罗阿诺在一份声明中说道,“如果亲眼目睹他死亡的人都不在了,这场调查就不可能进行。”

Houston prosecutor “more than prepared” to bring charges against ICE agents if wrongdoing is found in fatal shooting

2026-07-14 22:21 EDT / CBS News

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Camilo Montoya-Galvez Immigration Correspondent
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Updated on: July 14, 2026 / 10:21 PM EDT / CBS News

Houston – The top prosecutor in the Houston area, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, told CBS News Tuesday his office is “more than prepared” to prosecute federal immigration agents if it finds criminal wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a Mexican immigrant last week.

Teare said his office is conducting an investigation into the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on July 7, saying local investigators have issued “dozens” of subpoenas.

The county prosecutor said he launched an “independent, transparent investigation” of the shooting because the community deserved it.

“As we go forward, and if the case and the evidence directs us that criminal wrongdoing occurred, we are more than prepared to file criminal charges against the people, regardless of whether or not they are federal agents or civilians,” Teare said during an interview in his Houston office. “You can’t come into our community, take someone’s life, and then hide behind a badge.”

The Department of Homeland Security has claimed that Salgado Araujo weaponized his van during a traffic stop, prompting an ICE agent to shoot him. The department said Salgado Araujo was in the U.S. illegally but admitted the ICE agents who encountered him were initially looking for a different person.

Salgado Araujo’s family has strongly disputed DHS’s allegations, calling him a loving father who had lived in the U.S. for over three decades. Less than a week after his fatal shooting, an ICE officer shot and killed another driver in Maine.

The FBI has said it is investigating the incident in Houston, but as a potential assault on a federal agent. The DHS Office of Inspector General, which investigates shootings by agency employees, is also conducting its own probe.

Local investigators are looking at several possible crimes, Teare told CBS News, including murder, criminally negligent homicide and tampering with evidence.

Teare noted ICE has not provided his office with support or information to aid the probe, saying local investigators don’t know the name of the federal agent who discharged his weapon, a week after the deadly shooting.

“We have not received a single name of an ICE agent from ICE that was involved in that shooting, which is I can’t even begin to tell you how strange that is,” Teare added. “Even in non-fatal shootings with federal partners, we know the name of the individual that was involved that day.”

Citing his long career in law enforcement, including at the Houston police academy, Teare said ICE’s tactics “in no way resemble” the actions and training of the law enforcement agencies he’s worked for.

“It appears from everything we’ve seen that either these agents are completely untrained, or intentionally putting themselves in situations where they can justify firing into cars,” he added.

On Monday, following the fallout from the deadly shootings in Houston and Maine, ICE prohibited deportation agents from making vehicle stops in most cases, a pause that is expected to remain in place until further guidance is issued.

Teare said his office has also filed paperwork to help the witnesses of last week’s fatal shooting get visas so they’re not deported while the investigation unfolds. The men, who were in the van that Salgado Araujo was driving when he was fatally shot, remain in ICE custody in Texas and are facing deportation. They include Salgado Araujo’s brother.

Teare said that process could allow them to get U visas, which would protect them from deportation if they’re classified as victims of crimes who assisted a law enforcement investigation.

“They’re the three eyewitnesses to this shooting,” Teare said. “There are not many things that are more important in this investigation than their recollections.”

Juan Proaño, CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens, which has been helping Salgado Araujo’s family, urged federal officials to commit to not deporting the witnesses.

“Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves a full and independent investigation,” Proaño said in a statement. “That investigation is impossible if the people who watched him die are gone.”

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