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North Texas community organizers are asking for accountability in the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston early Tuesday morning as he was on his way to work a construction job.

There have been widespread calls for an independent investigation since the Tuesday shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a federal immigration agent.

“Suppose a federal officer, while he was working, shot the mayor,” a legal expert said. “Is everyone going to claim that he can't be prosecuted for murder just because he was on duty at the time? No, of course not.”

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo had lived in the United States for more than 30 years and was working his way through the process of obtaining legal immigration status, according to his family.

A spokesperson for the federal agency alleged that Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, whom ICE identified as a Mexican man without legal status in the U.S., attempted to run over an ICE officer before he was shot. Local elected officials and civil rights groups are calling for an independent investigation.

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, died at Parkland Hospital less than 24 hours after being seized outside his home by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Many of the defendants await trials on state charges in Johnson County, including terrorism.

The sentencing comes three months after a weeks-long trial in which prosecutors argued the group was a "North Texas antifa cell" with anti-ICE and anti-government beliefs.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has yet to release the results of a promised investigation into the death of Mohammed Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, who died at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital.

Janette Goering and Lucy Fowlkes are some of 22 people arrested in connection to a July 4 shooting last year. Their attorneys requested their bonds be reduced.

Prosecutors say an ICE agent fired into a Minneapolis home occupied by four adults and two children, then falsely claimed he acted in self-defense. He was arrested Friday in Texas.

A new mural on the side of Huitzitzilin Cafe depicts Miguel Angel Garcia Hernandez and Norlan Guzman Fuentes.