Lawyer says ICE account of fatal Texas shooting ‘completely false’

An attorney for the family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Houston man killed by immigration agents, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers’ account of the shooting is “completely false.”

Hugo Balderas-Ibarra spoke with three men who were in the vehicle with Salgado Araujo at the time of the shooting on Tuesday, saying they each contradicted the account of ICE, which said the driver attempted to use his vehicle as a weapon.

“After speaking with these three men that were in the vehicle with Lorenzo, I have no doubt that what these ICE agents are saying is completely false. At no point did they ever use the van to ram into the ICE agents, and at no point were these ICE agents’ lives ever in any danger,” Balderas-Ibarra said in a video posted to Instagram on Friday.

“We are demanding an independent investigation so that we can get them the justice and the answers that they deserve. The ICE agents’ accounts of what happened do not reflect, and are very inconsistent with the stories — with the recollection that I got from the three people that were in the vehicle with Lorenzo.”

Salgado Araujo was shot in the abdomen by ICE officers and then taken to a hospital where he later died.

According to Balderas-Ibarra, Salgado Araujo screamed out “Ya me mataron” — effectively, “They killed me” —  after he was pierced by the bullet.

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