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Houston leaders on Wednesday said they have received little information from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about the fatal shooting of an immigrant Tuesday, while his eldest son publicly praised his father and demanded an investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wanted nothing else in life but to provide for his wife and see his sons become great people,\u201d Ronaldo Salgado, who works as a teacher, said of his father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, during a press conference.<\/p>\n

Salgado said his father was a \u201cman of routine\u201d who always began his day before sunrise and left the house around 6 a.m. to his job building homes in North Houston.<\/p>\n

But on Tuesday, after picking up three other men, including his brother, for work, Salgado Araujo\u2019s vehicle was stopped by agents in unmarked vehicles. The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents were attempting to stop Salgado Araujo\u2019s vehicle as part of an unspecified \u201ctargeted enforcement operation\u201d in Houston\u2019s East End, a predominantly Latino neighborhood.<\/p>\n

The agency said Salgado Araujo also ignored verbal commands and tried to run over the ICE agent who shot him. The officer fired in self-defense, the statement said.<\/p>\n

Salgado said his father, a Mexican citizen who was in the process of getting a work permit, may have feared that he was about to get robbed.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of his worst fears is that someone took away his work tools, because that is how he made his livelihood,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad my father seen an emblem of ICE, or an emblem that says anything about law enforcement agency, my father would have complied,\u201d he added. \u201cHe would have not run away, because he feared for his life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local elected leaders echoed demands for an independent investigation into Salgado Araujo\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we know is very thin,\u201d said Juan Proa\u00f1o, the CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens. \u201cWe want a full and transparent investigation. Every piece of evidence, body camera footage, dash cam footage, bystander video, dispatch records must all be preserved and released to an independent investigator and to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

LULAC is offering a $5,000 reward for information and videos leading to \u201cthe arrest, indictment, conviction, or exoneration of any person involved in this potential murder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Domingo Garcia, LULAC\u2019s national president, asked the Houston Police Department to investigate, saying he does not trust a federal investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t expect the truth from the Department of Justice or from the FBI,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cWe expect a whitewash, that\u2019s just what we expect. But let me just be very clear, the only way we hold them accountable is if the citizens and the residents of Houston hold them accountable.\u201d<\/p>

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The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a Wednesday statement that it was not involved in the incident and referred questions to ICE. DPS didn\u2019t immediately respond to questions about whether it would initiate its own investigation. <\/p>\n

Last year, the department investigated an ICE officer\u2019s fatal shooting of 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez in South Padre Island; the federal agency accused the San Antonio resident of intentionally trying to run over an agent as ICE helped direct traffic around an accident. Body camera and security footage, later released by DPS, didn\u2019t definitively show Martinez attempting to do so. <\/p>\n

Ronaldo Salgado said he learned about his father\u2019s death through a social media video an hour after the shooting \u2014 not from law enforcement. <\/p>\n

\u201cI saw a video posted on Facebook that he had been shot,\u201d he said, through tears. \u201cI recognized him immediately, not from his appearance, but from his voice, crying for help as he lay on the street, bleeding out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salgado said his father was pronounced dead at the same hospital where he and his two brothers were born, Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital. <\/p>\n

For most of the 35 years his father lived in Houston, Salgado said, \u201cyou can find him every evening after work, resting on his porch, listening to music, petting his dog. That\u2019s how I want the world to know my father, not as someone who got shot and killed, but as a family man, a man who understands that good things come to those who put in hard work,\u201d he said through tears. <\/p>\n

Harris County Commissioner Lesley Briones, whose family immigrated from Mexico, said her \u201cheart breaks for Lorenzo\u2019s family, who will never have him home again. He literally built people\u2019s American dream for decades, and his was ripped away. We must have the truth, we must have answers, and we must have accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Austin Wednesday, a group of civil rights organizations and faith leaders denounced what they called a \u201ckilling\u201d and urged elected officials to take action against ICE violence in their communities. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis killing is the direct result of the militarization of our communities,\u201d Mario Gaona with the Party for Socialism and Liberation said at a press conference downtown. \u201cThe terror and corruption have to stop. $30 billion in taxpayer money this year has been funneled into this deportation machine.\u201d <\/p>\n

Federal agents\u2019 presence does not make cities safer, Gaona added. \u201cIt causes fear where there should be stability, fractures families, and erodes the trust people need to live and work in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex Nguyen and Alejandro Santos Cid contributed to this story.<\/em><\/p>\n

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