Lorenzo Salgado Araujo shot and killed by ICE agent in Houston, authorities confirm: Live updates

Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia and Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare shared new information about Tuesday's deadly ICE shooting in Magnolia Park.

The family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, disputes Homeland Security's claims that he was trying to evade immigration authorities in unmarked vehicles. DHS says agents claim he tried to run them down with his van, then an ICE agent fatally shot him.

Garcia said acting ICE director David Venturella confirmed to her that Araujo was not the intended target of the ICE operation, nor was his brother, who she says was a passenger in the vehicle when Araujo was fatally shot.

The congresswoman said Venturella told her that ICE was searching for an individual with a final removal order who officers believed had entered the van and that they had an administrative warrant. The agents did not have body cams, and none of the vehicles had dashboard cameras that captured the incident, Garcia said.

During a press conference Friday, Teare said the DA's office has been conducting its own investigation since the incident happened.

"We investigate every officer-involved shooting in Harris County," Teare said. "When it involves an agency that is not ICE, universally, we are invited in that day. We run a parallel investigation where we collaborate with law enforcement."

Teare urged anyone with information about the shooting to come forward.

"I am imploring the community -- anyone that was there that day, anyone that has a snippet of footage from a camera -- regardless of whether or not if you think that it's even relevant, send it to us," Teare said. "Things that you may not think are important could be the pivotal piece of information for us to finally figure out what actually happened."

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The Houston Police Department announced on Friday morning that it will provide resources to the federal investigation into the deadly shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

In open letters to both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS-OIG) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Houston Division, Houston Police Chief Noe Diaz announced that HPD will make "all appropriate resources available to support" the agencies to ensure their investigation is "conducted in a timely, transparent, and thorough manner."

Diaz said this action comes at the direction of Houston Mayor John Whitmire. The announcement comes days after Whitmire said that the City of Houston was "monitoring" the situation "very carefully," but will not be involved.

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ABC13 is set to learn more about the investigation surrounding the death of Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo after authorities say he was shot and killed by an ICE agent earlier this week.

Rep. Sylvia Garcia and Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare are set to give the latest developments in the case Friday morning during a press conference scheduled for 11 a.m.

According to the Congresswoman Garcia's office, Hugo Baldera-Ybarra, the lawyer for the passengers who were in the vehicle with Araujo when he was fatally shot, will also be at the press briefing.

Garcia said she will brief reporters on her conversation with Acting ICE Director David Venturella.

The man fatally shot during a traffic stop by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston this week was not the original target of the immigration enforcement operation, a Department of Homeland Security official told ABC News.

The DHS official said Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, "resembled the target."

"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," the official said. "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."

The update from DHS comes as Salgado's family and local officials are pushing for answers and demanding an independent and transparent investigation into the incident.

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