Federal immigration authorities said a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shot an illegal alien from Mexico during a targeted enforcement operation in Houston on Tuesday after the man used his vehicle to try to run over an agent.
Officers attempted to stop a vehicle driven by Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, whom the agency identified as an illegal immigrant from Mexico, as part of an operation to make an arrest.
ICE said Araujo tried to flee, rammed an ICE vehicle, ignored repeated verbal commands, and then used his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE officer. The officer fired his weapon in what the agency described as self-defense. …