HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Several investigations are underway after an ICE agent fatally shot a man in Houston's Magnolia Park on Tuesday, July 7, authorities said.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was a Mexican national who allegedly attempted to evade arrest, rammed his car into a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle, and refused commands to stop, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The agency also said Salgado Araujo tried to run over an agent, leading to the officer firing his weapon in what ICE claims is self-defense. ICE states that Salgado Araujo was hit and was taken to the hospital, where he died.
Salgado Araujo's family disputes DHS's claims and said that if the father of three U.S. citizens had known the men in the unmarked vehicles were ICE officers, he would have fully complied.
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ABC13 has learned that grand jury proceedings are underway in the deadly ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Law enforcement sources confirmed on Wednesday that the proceedings had begun in the case, adding that witnesses were being brought in to be interviewed by the grand jury.
ABC13 is working to learn more about the proceedings and what it means for the case.
The warrant for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's work van was released about a week after he was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during an enforcement operation on July 7.
FBI Houston Special Agent in Charge Jason Hudson discussed the case during a roundtable with reporters Friday, saying the FBI was called to process the scene after the shooting.
"On July 7, we were requested to process that scene, so we did collect evidence," Hudson said. "In a very short period of time, we called in our local, state, and federal partners as well to show everything we've got. Our timeline. Everything."
New publicly available documents reveal what federal ICE agents said happened the morning of July's fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
On July 7, a federal agent opened fire on the white van that Salgado Araujo was driving, killing him. Three other people in the white van were detained. After the shooting, ICE reported that Salgado Araujo was not the target of the enforcement operation that was being carried out.
ABC13's Daniela Hurtado went to the federal courthouse and obtained physical copies of the documents from the clerk's public document portal.
ABC13's Joe McCoy spoke to lawyers representing a man involved in the fatal ICE shooting.
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said that prosecutors intend to bring several witnesses in the deadly shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE agent before a grand jury "fairly soon."
On Thursday afternoon, Teare's announcement comes from a social post on X, formerly known as Twitter, from Rafael Lemaitre, the Director of Strategic Communications and Policy with the Harris County District Attorney's Office.
On Wednesday, the second man who witnessed the fatal shooting of Salgado Araujo by an ICE agent was released from custody, according to his attorney.
