The deadly encounter on Tuesday comes in the wake of two fatal shootings by ICE agents within less than a week that involved immigration officers attempting to stop someone in a vehicle. The deaths have sparked fierce backlash.
On July 7, an ICE officer shot 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who had lived in the U.S. for decades, during a traffic stop in Houston.
Six days later, another officer with the agency fatally shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian national, while he was driving near his home in Biddeford, Maine.
DHS alleged that both drivers attempted to flee from immigration agents and that Araujo tried to run over an ICE officer with his vehicle. The department has not provided evidence for those claims.
Passengers in Araujo’s vehicle who witnessed the shooting have disputed DHS’s account of the incident, according to a lawyer who spoke with them.
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