ICE says officer shot and killed illegal immigrant who tried to ram him with car in Houston

An illegal immigrant was shot and killed in Houston after he allegedly tried to ram U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers during an operation, the agency said Tuesday.

ICE officers were attempting to conduct a traffic stop for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican citizen, at around 6:50 a.m., an ICE spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

Araujo tried evading the ICE officers when he "weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer, resulting in our officer firing his weapon in self-defense."

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Araujo was struck and taken to a hospital, where he later died. The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General is investigating the shooting. The FBI is leading an investigation into the potential assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

On July 1, an ICE agent opened fire on an illegal immigrant who also tried ramming a vehicle into authorities, ICE said.

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The officers were trying to take Clemente Lara-Hernandez, a Mexican national, into custody when he allegedly tried running into an officer and drove the wrong way on a one-way street before crashing into a civilian vehicle.

An ICE officer fired a shot, but no one appeared to be injured. Lara-Hernandez remains at large.

"Our ICE law enforcement officers are facing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults, a 3,300% increase in vehicular attacks, and an 8,000% increase in death threats against them as they put their lives on the line to arrest the worst of the worst," ICE said at the time of the shooting.