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Nearly a week after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, important details are still unclear.<\/p>

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Federal authorities have offered limited information about the July 7 shooting beyond saying Salgado Araujo tried to hit an agent with his van, prompting calls for an independent investigation and pressure from protestors and Democratic lawmakers for ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, to release evidence.<\/p>

The Texas Tribune has repeatedly posed detailed questions about the Houston shooting in emails to ICE and Homeland Security, but federal officials have not addressed most of them.<\/p>

Separately, the FBI\u2019s Houston office \u2014 which is leading an investigation into the potential assault on a federal officer \u2014 said Monday that it does not discuss ongoing investigations and redirected all questions to Homeland Security.<\/p>

Here is what we know and still don\u2019t know about the Houston shooting.<\/p>

What happened during the shooting?<\/b><\/p>

Hours following the shooting, Homeland Security released a statement saying Salgado Araujo had tried to ram an ICE vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands and \u201cweaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over\u201d an ICE agent before the officer fired his weapon in self-defense.<\/p>

Three men who were also in the van have since disputed that narrative, saying in written and oral comments that ICE vehicles rammed Salgado Araujo\u2019s work van and the agents were not at risk of being run over. An agent ran toward them from the side and yelled \u201cStop!\u201d before firing from the van\u2019s passenger side, hitting Salgado Araujo in the abdomen, according to accounts provided to The Washington Post by a lawyer for some of the men, who remain in ICE custody.<\/p>

As of Monday, no video footage had emerged fully showing what happened during the shooting.<\/p>

Homeland Security said agents involved in the incident were not wearing body cameras, blaming Democrats for the lack of the equipment. In addition, ICE vehicles had no dashcam footage of the incident, according to U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Houston Democrat who said that information was provided by acting ICE Director David Venturella. The department didn\u2019t respond to the Tribune\u2019s repeated questions about why dashboard camera footage was not available.<\/p>

Homeland Security also didn\u2019t address multiple detailed questions about the circumstances of the shooting, including how many ICE agents were involved, how many shots were fired at the van and whether an ICE vehicle had rammed Salgado Araujo\u2019s van at any point.<\/p>

Who killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo?<\/b><\/p>

Homeland Security has refused to identify the ICE agent who fatally shot Salgado Araujo, citing rising violence and threats against federal officers involved in the Trump administration\u2019s immigration enforcement operations.<\/p>

The Atlantic reported last week that the unidentified agent was \u201ca veteran with more than two decades\u2019 experience,\u201d attributing the information to an unnamed senior ICE official.<\/p>

It\u2019s also unclear if the agent remains on duty while separate investigations by the FBI and Homeland Security\u2019s inspector general continue. The agencies have either declined to answer this question from the Tribune or ignored it.<\/p>

Local authorities have similarly been kept in the dark, according to Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, who has launched an independent investigation into the shooting. During a Monday news conference, he said his office would usually know the identity of state or local officers involved in fatal interactions within 12 hours.<\/p>

\u201cWe’re almost a week in and no one on the state level knows who they were or where they are right now,\u201d Teare said. \u201cThat\u2019s unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>

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Which agency gave the tip to ICE?<\/b><\/p>

In a Thursday statement, Homeland Security said it received a \u201ccredible tip\u201d from unspecified \u201claw enforcement partners\u201d that led ICE agents to watch a Houston residence where two white vans had been seen. Salgado Araujo was driving a white van.<\/p>

The identity of the law enforcement agency remains unclear.<\/p>

Homeland Security didn\u2019t respond to repeated questions about which agency provided the tip. The Texas Department of Public Safety, the Houston Police Department, the Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Precinct 6 constable\u2019s office have told the Tribune that they did not supply the tip.<\/p>

ICE has also said agents were engaged in a \u201ctargeted operation.\u201d The New York Times reported the agency was seeking at least one Guatemalan man with a prior removal order.<\/p>

The agency has declined to answer questions about its operational plan that day and who it sought to arrest, but Garcia has announced that Salgado Araujo was not the intended target. He had no criminal history and was in the process of obtaining legal authorization to be in the U.S. after being sponsored by one of his U.S. citizen sons, according to his family.<\/p>

The three other passengers in the white van, which include Salgado Araujo\u2019s brother, were Mexican. They do not have prior deportation orders or a criminal record, according to local congressional staff and available public records. Homeland Security spokespeople did not clarify the criminal or immigration history of the passengers.<\/p>

Homeland Security officials also did not respond to questions about their situations or the intended target.<\/p>

Will federal authorities share evidence?<\/b><\/p>

After mounting calls for transparency and accountability, local authorities have vowed to pursue independent investigations of the shooting but caution there are challenges to gaining access to evidence held by federal authorities.<\/p>

\u201cWe\u2019ve attempted to communicate with any number of federal agencies. We\u2019ve had varying success in that,\u201d Teare, the district attorney, said Monday, adding that his office has yet to speak with Homeland Security\u2019s inspector general office.<\/p>

Houston Mayor John Whitmire said last week that Police Chief Noe Diaz asked the FBI to \u201cstart sharing information\u201d and that Diaz has a meeting with the agency\u2019s Houston bureau chief this week.<\/p>

A spokesperson for the FBI\u2019s Houston office declined to answer whether it would share evidence with local officials, directing the Tribune to Homeland Security, which didn\u2019t respond to the question.<\/p>

Teare said his investigators have visited the shooting scene, collected surveillance footage from area businesses and fielded \u201cwell over 100 communications\u201d from the community. He also is in contact with the Hennepin County attorney\u2019s office in Minnesota, which is investigating the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in January.<\/p>

\u201cIn all likelihood, this will take many, many months \u2014 potentially years \u2014 before we finally get the answers that we all need,\u201d Teare said. \u201cBut we will not rest and we cannot do it without the support of the public and the support of our commissioners.\u201d<\/p>

This was not the first deadly shooting by federal immigration agents during the second Trump administration in Texas or across the country. It is also not the latest: An ICE agent fatally shot a motorist Monday in Maine.<\/p>

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This article first appeared on The Texas Tribune.<\/em><\/p>

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