HOUSTON - Four shootings involving federal immigration agents in Texas since March 2025 left three men dead and another injured, according to incidents documented by The Trace's Gun Violence Data Hub.

The ENOUGH team took a closer look at each case and mapped shootings documented by The Trace, then examined four Texas incidents in Austin, Houston, Rio Grande City and South Padre Island.


The map offers a starting point for understanding what happened in each case and what the public learned afterward. The Trace discloses that its catalog is incomplete and likely an undercount.

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Select a point to read about a documented shooting. The colors distinguish fatal shootings, shootings with reporter injuries and shootings without injuries reported in the dataset.

Austin, Sept. 20, 2026

An ICE agent shot and injured 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez during an attempted arrest in Austin after Garcés Pérez was attempting to make a food delivery.

After hospital treatment, Garcés Pérez was taken into federal custody and charged with assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer.

His legal team said Garcés Pérez was taken into federal custody.

Houston, July 7, 2026

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Houston's Magnolia Park neighborhood.

Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who had lived in the United States for decades was driving a van carrying construction workers. DHS said he rammed a federal vehicle and used his van as a weapon. His family disputed the agency's account.

DHS later acknowledged that Salgado Araujo was not the person officers were seeking when they stopped his vehicle.They observed a white van with an individual who resembled the target

Rio Grande City, Dec. 11, 2025

A border patrol agent fatally shot 31-year-old Isaias Sanchez Barboza near the U.S. Mexico border in Rio Grande City.

According to a statement released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, agents tried to apprehend a group Sanchez Barboza was with. The agent reported a struggle before firing, Sanzhez Barboza sustained three gunshot wo
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