ICE says officer shot and killed illegal immigrant who tried to ram him with car in Houston

An amerciable migrant was changeable and killed successful Houston aft helium tried to ram U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers during an operation, the bureau said Tuesday.

ICE officers were attempting to behaviour a postulation halt for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican citizen, astatine astir 6:50 a.m., an ICE spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

Araujo tried evading the ICE officers erstwhile helium "weaponized his conveyance successful an effort to tally implicit an ICE instrumentality enforcement officer, resulting successful our serviceman firing his limb successful self-defense."

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were trying to instrumentality Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, an amerciable migrant from Mexico, into custody successful Houston erstwhile helium tried ramming them with a car. An ICE serviceman opened fire, sidesplitting Araujo, the bureau said Tuesday. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Araujo was struck and taken to a hospital, wherever helium aboriginal died. The FBI is investigating the shooting.

On July 1, an ICE cause opened occurrence connected an amerciable migrant who besides tried ramming a conveyance into authorities, ICE said.

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A instrumentality enforcement serviceman walks past ICE logo up of a property league connected Thursday, May 11, 2017, astatine the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office successful Washington, D.C. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The officers were trying to instrumentality Clemente Lara-Hernandez, a Mexican national, into custody erstwhile helium tried moving into an serviceman and drove the incorrect mode connected a one-way thoroughfare earlier crashing into a civilian vehicle.

An ICE serviceman fired a shot, but nary 1 appeared to beryllium injured. Lara-Hernandez remains astatine large.

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"Our ICE instrumentality enforcement officers are facing a much than 1,300% summation successful assaults, a 3,300% summation successful vehicular attacks, and an 8,000% summation successful decease threats against them arsenic they enactment their lives connected the enactment to apprehension the worst of the worst," ICE said astatine the clip of the shooting.