Salt, not drugs, found in van connected to Houston ICE shooting, family says
TL;DR
The FBI obtained a search warrant for the van involved in last week’s fatal Houston ICE stop after an agent saw bags containing a white crystal-like substance; Salgado Araujo’s family attorney says the substance is granulated salt used with lemon and water as an electrolyte for outdoor workers, not meth or other drugs, and it’s being tested. Officials say the shooting is under investigation and that test results should not alter the death inquiry, noting Salgado Araujo was not the intended target.
- Substance FBI agent saw in van of man fatally shot by ICE in Houston was salt, family attorney says NBC News
- Family says ‘crystal-like substance’ found in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s work van was homemade electrolyte mix, not drugs Click2Houston
- DA says he doesn’t believe that drugs were found in van involved in Houston ICE shooting, countering FBI suspicion CNN
- Deadly Houston ICE shooting: Harris County DA says 'it's inconsistent that drugs' found in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's van ABC13 Houston
- Houston mayor blasts ‘bad behavior’ during ICE shooting meeting: ‘Just wrong’ Houston Chronicle
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