The Brief We have an update following the deadly Houston ICE shooting that took the life of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. In a ruling on Monday, Federal Judge Keith P. Ellison ruled Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego, who was also a witness in the shooting, must be released from DHS custody within the next 48 hours. Further conditions stipulate that Pliego must be released by DHS in a public place within the Southern District of Texas, and must notify his counsel of the time and place of his release no less than three hours prior to his release from custody.



We have an update following the deadly Houston ICE shooting that took the life of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

What we know:

In a ruling on Monday, Federal Judge Keith P. Ellison ruled Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego, who was also a witness in the deadly shooting, must be released from DHS custody within the next 48 hours.

Further conditions stipulate that Pliego must be released by DHS in a public place within the Southern District of Texas, and must notify his counsel of the time and place of his release no less than three hours prior to his release from custody.

The ruling comes after Pliego filed a petition for Write of Habeas Corpus.

The backstory:

Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, was shot and killed by an ICE officer on the morning of July 7 in Houston's East End.

His family says the father of three had been in the U.S. for nearly 35 years, was in the process of obtaining a work permit, and was close to obtaining his legal status.

At the time of the shooting, his family says he was picking up three workers, one of whom was Pliego, on his way to a construction job.

A federal prosecutor has said that ICE officers that morning were targeting two Guatemalan men who were potentially subject to deportation and driving a van similar to Salgado Araujo's vehicle.

ICE officers claim they were trying to conduct a stop on Salgado Araujo's work van when he rammed their vehicle, refused to follow verbal commands and tried to run over an officer. The agency says the ICE officer shot Salgado Araujo in self-defense.

The Associated Press reports that th

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