Anguish and disbelief at wake for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, killed by ICE in Houston

Hundreds of people came to pay their last respects to the Mexican father of three who worked in construction and had lived in the U.S. for 35 years.

HOUSTON — María Guadalupe García walked helplessly among the gravestones at Forest Park Lawndale, a funeral complex in Houston’s East End neighborhood.

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“It can’t be, they killed him without mercy,” said García, who had come to pay her last respects to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Mexican immigrant and father of three who was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a traffic stop in Texas last week.

“We always greeted each other, he would ask about my family, and he was a hard-working man,” said García, 57, a resident of the East End neighborhood where Salgado Araujo lived. “We never saw him in a scandal, nothing like that. He raised his children and gave people jobs. What happened is a tragedy.”