ICE agents in fatal Houston shooting were not wearing body cameras, sources say

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents progressive successful this week's fatal shooting of an amerciable migrant successful Houston were not wearing assemblage cameras, aggregate sources acquainted with the probe told Fox News.

The improvement comes arsenic the shooting continues to gully nationalist attention. The incidental is being investigated by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General, portion prosecutors successful Houston are conducting a abstracted probe into the shooting.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who authorities said was successful the state illegally, was changeable and killed Tuesday aft helium allegedly tried to ram an ICE serviceman with his vehicle, the bureau said.

ICE SAYS OFFICER SHOT AND KILLED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO TRIED TO RAM HIM WITH CAR IN HOUSTON

A pistillate holds a motion speechmaking "ICE OUT OF HOUSTON" during a vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican nationalist fatally changeable by a national migration cause a time prior, Wednesday, July 8, 2026, successful Houston. (AP Photo/Mark Felix)

Multiple Democrats person called for an autarkic probe into the incident.

"Every azygous ICE cause progressive successful the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo indispensable beryllium investigated to the afloat grade of the law," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote connected X. "Video footage of the sidesplitting indispensable beryllium released immediately. The American radical merit the truth, the full information and thing but the truth."

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani besides called for "real accountability" pursuing the shooting and reiterated his enactment for abolishing ICE.

ANTI-ICE DEMONSTRATORS DETAINED AFTER PROTESTING ARREST OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FACING ASSAULT, DRUG CHARGES

Lorenzo Salgado Jr., left, and Ronaldo Salgado, right, sons of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, are shown during a quality league astir the ICE shooting decease of their begetter successful Houston Wednesday, July 8, 2026. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum vowed to prosecute "legal measures" pursuing the shooting.

Asked whether the officers progressive were wearing assemblage cameras, the Department of Homeland Security directed Fox News to ICE's erstwhile connection regarding the shooting, successful which the bureau accused Araujo of attempting to evade arrest.

ICE antecedently told Fox News Digital that Araujo "rammed an ICE instrumentality enforcement vehicle, refused to travel aggregate verbal commands, and weaponized his conveyance successful an effort to tally implicit an ICE instrumentality enforcement serviceman resulting successful our serviceman firing his limb successful self-defense."

ICE RENEWS HUNT FOR EL CHAPO'S LAST TWO FUGITIVE SONS WITH MASSIVE REWARD

Candles are lit during a vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican nationalist fatally changeable by a national migration cause a time prior, Wednesday, July 8, 2026, successful Houston. (AP Photo/Mark Felix)

Araujo was struck and taken to a hospital, wherever helium aboriginal died.

"This is simply a processing situation, and we volition update the nationalist erstwhile much accusation is available," the bureau added.

Little video of the brushwood has emerged publically successful the days since the shooting.

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Araujo's household has disputed ICE's relationship of the shooting and called connected the bureau to merchandise immoderate disposable video evidence.

Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano and The Associated Press contributed to this report.