# How the shooting death of a Houston father is igniting Latino politics in Texas

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- NBC News, 2026-10-04 13:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/shooting-death-houston-father-igniting-latino-politics-texas-rcna598588

> At a roadside memorial in Houston for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a voice rose above the traffic one late-September evening. The 52-year-old husband and father was fatally shot there by immigration authorities three months earlier, and his death is now fueling Latino politics in Texas.