The morning after a still-unnamed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed 52-year-old Houston resident Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday, July 7, investigators from the Harris County District Attorney’s Office were on the scene. They hadn’t received an invitation from the federal agency, which was slightly unusual, but this wasn’t an oversight. It was the beginning of weeks of stonewalling by federal officials.
For starters, when DA investigators were allowed on scene, it had already been cleared and all the key pieces of evidence—including Araujo’s body and van—and even the ICE agents involved had been whisked away.
