Family believes substance in Houston ICE shooting van is salt, attorney says, countering FBI suspicion of drugs | CNN

A substance collected from the van in which Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Houston last week likely was salt, an attorney for the slain man’s brother said she believes, countering the FBI’s previous assertions that the substance could be drugs. Thursday’s statement from attorney Ruby Powers came hours after the district attorney in Texas’ Harris County also said he believed the substance wasn’t drugs. And even if it was, the prosecutor said, it should have no bearing on investigations into whether the killing of 52-year-old Salgado Araujo during an attempted traffic stop on July 7 was justified, or whether the stop of the Mexican immigrant and his three passengers was warranted. This comes days after the FBI filed a warrant application saying the agency has cause to believe that an investigator — after the shooting — found illegal drugs in the vehicle longtime Texas resident Salgado Araujo had been driving. “After consulting with my client and his family, our understanding is that this (substance) was granulated salt,” Powers, an attorney for Salgado Araujo’s brother Victor Salgado, one of the three passengers, said in a release. Such