U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says one of its officers shot and killed a man during an operation in Houston after he allegedly tried to run the officer over with his vehicle. The agency identified the man as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican citizen living in the country illegally, and the incident adds to a series of recent confrontations in which ICE agents have opened fire during attempted arrests.

According to an ICE spokesperson, officers tried to conduct a traffic stop at around 6:50am on the Tuesday in question. Araujo allegedly attempted to evade them and "weaponised his vehicle" in a bid to run over an officer, who then fired in what the agency described as self-defence. Araujo was taken to hospital, where he later died, and the FBI is now investigating the shooting. ICE noted a similar incident on 1 July involving another Mexican national, Clemente Lara-Hernandez, who remains at large, and the agency cited sharp reported increases in assaults, vehicular attacks and death threats against its officers.