It has been almost eight weeks since a bullet fired by an ICE agent ended Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's life on a Houston street, and his younger brother now says he is prepared to describe, under oath, exactly what he saw from the front seat. That account could carry unusual weight: with no agency camera footage to fall back on, prosecutors are leaning almost entirely on what three eyewitnesses remember. For immigrant families who fill the East End and Magnolia Park, corridors built by generations of Mexican and Central American labor, the case has come to stand for something bigger than one shooting — whether a federal agent can kill a civilian during an immigration stop and still face consequences.
