Houston protesters want answers after ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado 13%
By Raquel Natalicchio0% Kathleen Ortiz0% Yvette Orozco0% Staff Writers0%
7/12/2026, 12:36:15 AM
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Houston protesters demand answers after fatal ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
By Raquel Natalicchio , Kathleen Ortiz , Yvette Orozco , Staff Writers July 11, 2026
People gather for a protest in memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo at City Hall in Houston, Saturday, July 11, 2026.
Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle
Protesters trickled in and gathered outside City Hall during a light drizzle Saturday evening to protest the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s by ICE agents this week.
They carried umbrellas, along with their homemade posters and flags representing both Mexico and the U.S.
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Seventy-five-year old Anita Ceballos showed up two and a half hours before the 6 p.m. event.
“A little rain doesn’t hurt, you know?”
Ceballos said.
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Ceballos’s parents lived not too far from Canal Street in the East End neighborhood where Salgado was killed and she said she’s really hurting for his family.
As Spanish music began playing from speakers in front of City Hall, protesters began to move out from under the trees where they'd taken shelter.
They were there to demand justice for the 52-year-old Salgado who was shot and killed Tuesday as U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempted to pull over his vehicle.
ICE officials say Salgado attempted to weaponize his vehicle against the agents, an accusation his family rejects.
The Houston branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and immigrants rights group FIEL Houston have called for an independent investigation and to get ICE out of the city.
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Salgado, who had lived in the United States for nearly 35 years, was a Mexican citizen and owned his own construction business, according to his family.
He was picking up workers and on his way to a job site when he was stopped by ICE agents Tuesday morning.
As protesters chanted, “Justice for Lorenzo!
ICE out of Houston!
ICE out of Texas!
ICE out of everywhere,” Loren Haskins stood among them in a cowboy hat, holding a Trump 2020 flag with the words crossed out in red.
“Yet another person was slaughtered by our government,” Haskins said.
“We have Donald Trump and his own personal Schutzstaffel and, I mean, it’s 1936 Germany over here, and it's gotta stop.
Unless we collectively rise and decide that enough is enough, they're gonna keep on killing people.”
At the front of the crowd through a microphone, a leader of the Party for Socialism and Liberation urged the crowd to chant loud enough for the East End to hear them.
U.S.
Rep Sylvia Garcia was at the front of the crowd standing under an umbrella, just a few hours after she visited the men who witnessed the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in an immigrant detention facility in Conroe.
After more than 30 minutes of the crowd chanting, Teodoro Aguiluz of community service group CRECEN Houston took the microphone.
“We are here to demand that they investigate what happened exactly with our brother Lorenzo,” Aguiluz said in Spanish to the crowd.
Leaders urged the crowd to return to City Hall on Tuesday and sign up for the public comment portion of the scheduled City Council meeting.
“Who is going to be here on Tuesday?”
A leader yelled into the microphone to loud applause and shouts.
State Rep.
Christina Morales, a Houston Democrat, told the crowd that they honor Salgado by not being silent.
“If the government story is true, then why are they hiding the evidence?”
Morales asked.
Cesar Espinosa, co-founder of FIEL closed the event as he led the group in a moment of silence before playing the song “Amor Eterno” by the late Spanish singer Rocío Dúrcal.
Some of the protesters sobbed as Dúrcal sang in Spanish, “I'd so much rather be asleep than awake / Because of how much it hurts me that you’re not here.”
After the song finished, Espinosa led the group in a march to the Federal Detention Center on Texas Avenue.
Raquel Natalicchio is a staff photographer for the Houston Chronicle.
Kathleen Ortiz is a breaking news intern from Kingwood, Texas.
She is a recent graduate from Rice University with a degree in social policy analysis and sport management, and served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, the Rice Thresher.
Ortiz previously worked as a sports reporting intern at the Dallas Morning News through the Sports Journalism Institute and as a student writer for Rice's Sport Management department.
Yvette Orozco is a reporter for the Houston Chronicle, covering the suburbs of Pearland, Pasadena and the Bay Area.
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