A “crystal-like” substance that federal authorities alleged was methamphetamine inside the van of a Mexican national killed by immigration authorities in Texas was actually salt for homemade energy drinks, his family’s attorney says.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old construction worker who had lived in the United States for 35 years, was fatally shot in the stomach by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Houston on July 7.
