Texas construction worker fatally shot by ICE didn’t have drugs despite FBI claims: Prosecutor
Texas officials on Friday said that testing confirmed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was not carrying drugs in his vehicle, striking down the FBI’s initial assessment that there could have been drugs in the construction laborer’s work van when he was killed by immigration agents. Araujo was shot dead in Houston earlier this month after being targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the time, the Trump administration raised concerns that Araujo had meth in the vehicle.
- ▪Texas officials on Friday said that testing confirmed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was not carrying drugs in his vehicle, striking down the FBI’s initial assessment that there could have been drugs in the construction laborer’s work van when he w
- ▪Araujo was shot dead in Houston earlier this month after being targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
- ▪At the time, the Trump administration raised concerns that Araujo had meth in the vehicle.
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Texas officials on Friday said that testing confirmed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was not carrying drugs in his vehicle, striking down the FBI’s initial assessment that there could have been drugs in the construction laborer’s work van when he was killed by immigration agents. Araujo was shot dead in Houston earlier this month after being targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the time, the Trump administration raised concerns that Araujo had meth in the vehicle. His family and authorities in the area pushed back, saying the substance in white bags was a homemade electrolyte mix his wife prepared for the work crew every day.
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