HOUSTON – Houston-area leaders and U.S. Representatives held a press conference to provide new details on the ICE shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Leaders provide update on deadly ICE shooting
Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia held a briefing alongside Congressman Al Green, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare and Hugo Baldera-Ybarra, the lawyer for the three passengers who were in the vehicle with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and detained by ICE following the shooting death of Araujo.
On Thursday, Congresswoman Garcia told FOX 26 she spoke with ICE, and it was learned that Salgado Araujo and his brother were not their intended targets.
Garcia said ICE told her that there was another person in the vehicle who had an administrative warrant.
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Baldera-Ybarra, the attorney representing the three men detained during the shooting, shared what he had heard from them while calling for their release.
Harris County DA Sean Teare says his office was not invited into the shooting scene on Tuesday. However, he says his civil rights division and investigators have been at the scene since it was released to collect surveillance footage and talk to witnesses.
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You can watch the full press conference above.