Given the lack of transparency surrounding the death of immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, killed by an officer of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) in Houston, Texas, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) activated a petition for signatures whose objective is to ensure that the unfortunate event is investigated in detail.

The incident occurred Wednesday around 7 a.m. during an attempted arrest at a traffic stop.

According to a statement released by the federal agency, the 52-year-old Mexican allegedly refused to cooperate with authorities during an immigration control operation.

Aware that he was in US territory in an irregular situation, he refused to stop the vehicle he was driving to make himself available.

Instead, Salgado Araujo engaged in violent conduct that put the integrity of a federal agent at risk.

“He rammed an ICE police vehicle, refused to obey multiple verbal commands, and used his vehicle as a weapon in an attempt to run over an ICE agent, causing our agent to fire his weapon in self-defense,” part of the letter states.

However, the aforementioned version does not seem to make sense, since the relatives of the murdered man and the testimony of Juan Proaño, executive director of LULAC, agree that Lorenzo Salgado was in the process of obtaining legal status in the United States.

"Today is the first day without him for all of us, and it is heartbreaking to know that my mother did not prepare lunch for him before going to work, the first time in her more than 30 years of marriage. This was my father: a simple man, a family man. Not someone who was screaming for help on the floor while he was bleeding to death. He just wanted to go to work and come back to us," Ronaldo Salgado, one of the three children of the Mexican killed in Houston's East End, near Magnolia, wrote on Facebook Park.

With the aim of demanding that a complete and independent investigation be carried out to clarify the death of the mentioned Mexican, a space was enabled on the LULAC website requesting to join a petition that will be sent to the authorities.

“All evidence, including body camera recordings, surveillance videos, radio communications and witness statements, must be preserved and made public,” said the activist group established since 1929 in the city of Corpus Christi, Texas.

So far, more than 142 thousand people have signed the petition less than 24 hours after it was enabled.