Three unmarked cars surrounded Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s car. He tried to escape the trap. ICE claims he rammed the car, and tried to run down an ICE agent, who shot him. He died later, in the hospital.He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.@Carrasquillo on Lorenzo Araujohttps://t.co/72dz5Z6vVs
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) July 8, 2026
It gets more familiar from there. Witnesses say the van Araujo was driving didn’t have any collision damage. But ICE removed it. No one knows where it is now. Two men were in the van. ICE removed them, too. No one knows where they are either.
The FBI says they are investigating. The FBI also says it’s investigating Araujo’s alleged crime.
"You [could] find him every evening after work, resting on his porch, listening to music, petting his dog," Salgado said. "I am deeply heartbroken to see that the man who taught me the value of hard work, family values, and education will no longer spend an evening on that porch. … He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of ‘Mexican man shot and killed by ICE.'"Which is probably why ICE went looking for him.
Araujo had lived in the United States for over 30 years and was working his way through the process of obtaining legal immigration status, according to his family.
"He dedicated his life in the United States to giving his family the American dream," Salgado said. "After nearly 35 years of working to give us the American dream, he made the choice to begin the process of obtaining his American dream through a work permit. We dotted every I, crossed every T, filled every document, attended every appointment." Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's middle son holds a photo of his father who was shot and killed by ICE. July 8, 2026.
U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee, along with half a dozen other elected state and local leaders, joined Araujo's family on Wednesday.🙄
"I want to be clear, somebody being killed by law enforcement is a big g—— deal," Menefee said. "What other profession has the power to take somebody's life in the middle of a street? ... We are a city of undocumented immigrants. They are our neighbors. They are our family. They are business owners, and they deserve to be treated with humanity and with dignity."
On Tuesday, the FBI said the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security is leading an investigation into the shooting, while the FBI’s Houston office is leading an investigation into the "potential assault on a federal law enforcement officer."
Salgado said his father helped him and his two brothers afford college, adding that Araujo's hard work inspired them.As long as you’re not too brown; in Trump’s America.
"My father was a simple man, a family man," Salgado said. "That's how I want the world to know my father. Not as someone who got shot and killed, but as a family man, a man who understood that good things come to those who put in hard work."
Only the worst of the worst, right? In charge, that is.
