Houston Mayor John Whitmire on Wednesday cast doubt that the city’s police department could open a criminal investigation into the shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo — killed a day earlier by a federal immigration agent — as family and advocates pressured city leaders to spearhead an independent probe.
Whitmire expressed his condolences to the family and described the shooting as a “tragedy” during a morning City Council meeting. But he questioned whether the city had the authority to conduct its own investigation, saying “there cannot be two ongoing investigations, certainly when there’s not jurisdiction by one of them.”
