More than a thousand protesters marched on 8 July near the spot where an ICE officer fatally shot a man driving to work.

The demonstrators echoed mounting demands for an independent inquiry into Tuesday’s shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, a Mexican national who lived in the US as an undocumented immigrant for decades.

The BBC’s reporting partner, CBSNews, said Salgado Araujo had no criminal convictions, according to his family and a Texas congresswoman.

CBS also reported the Department of Homeland Security said that Salgado Araujo was shot after he ignored commands and attempted to ram an officer who fired his weapon in self-defence.

Federal officials did not release video or images of the shooting or the damage to the vehicles.

The evening rally began with a few hundred people gathered at the site where Salgado was shot in Houston’s heavily Hispanic, working-class East End. The crowd swelled to more than 1,000 people as protesters marched to a nearby park.