ICE killed a father in Houston and 3 witnesses have vanished.

 

Barely 24 hours after we wrote to you about a fatal shooting by the National Guard in Memphis, we have another violent tragedy on our hands.   Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents in Houston on Tuesday.   He was a husband, a father, a small business owner, and a 35-year resident of this country with no criminal record.   His children are now growing up without him and his wife has lost her partner, and NONE of it needed to happen.   Lorenzo’s son learned his father was dead from a news report, because ICE could not be bothered to notify the family it had just torn apart.   ICE moved fast to muddy the waters.   Within hours the agency claimed Lorenzo weaponized his vehicle and charged at agents, forcing them to fire. Witnesses on the ground dispute that account and to date ICE has produced no evidence to back it up.   If the claim sounds familiar, that is because it is word for word what they said after killing Renee Good in Minneapolis.   Lorenzo is now the 10th person fatally shot by ICE during Trump’s second term. It’s clear that the playbook does not change even when the city does. The three eyewitnesses who were in the van with Lorenzo have vanished without a trace, which conveniently makes them unavailable to participate in any investigation. And Houston's mayor is refusing to call for an independent inquiry and handing the whole thing to a federal probe. That leaves ICE and Kash Patel's FBI investigating themselves.  This is the same outfit still shielding the agents who killed Renée Good and Alex Pretti.  That crew is not going to lift a finger to hold their own accountable. ICE always tells its version first, then digs in and repeats it even when the footage in front of our own eyes says otherwise.  Left alone, Lorenzo's case will follow the same path and this administration will use his death to justify the same cruelty that caused it. ResistMap is not going to let it be shoved aside.  Our team is collecting and analyzing every piece of data available in the public domain, from eyewitness accounts to local reporting to whatever footage surfaces. We’ll preserve the record and fight for accountability.