A Texas prosecutor accused federal authorities on Wednesday of sidelining local officials from the investigation into the fatal shooting of a Mexican national by an immigration officer in Houston.
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare stated in a social media post that federal agencies were exclusively managing the probe into the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was killed Tuesday during a traffic stop arrest by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Teare said that his office typically conducted a “parallel investigation” into any local death involving law enforcement, but federal authorities had blocked that access.
