The US state of Texas will investigate the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo last week by federal immigration agents, Governor Greg Abbott announced, as demands for answers grow.

The Texas Rangers, a state law enforcement agency, will work alongside federal officials “to get to the bottom of exactly what happened,” Abbott told reporters Wednesday.

“Immigration laws can be enforced and illegal immigration across our border can be stopped without shooting people,” Abbott said.

After Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot Salgado Araujo, the federal government said it would investigate the incident, but locals called for an independent investigation.

ICE agents had detained Salgado Araujo on the morning of July 7 while he was driving to work. He was taken to a local hospital, where he later died.

Details remain scarce and video of the shooting has yet to surface. ICE did not use body cameras during the operation, according to Congresswoman Silvia García, a Democrat who represents the area.

ICE initially alleged that Salgado Araujo “turned his vehicle into a weapon” and an officer opened fire in self-defense.

The Department of Homeland Security later said that Salgado Araujo was not the target of the operation and ICE initiated the traffic stop after seeing “a white van with an individual who resembled the target.”

Salgado Araujo’s family has questioned the government’s version.

In other shootings related to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, such as those that led to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis earlier this year, video footage and eyewitness accounts have contradicted ICE statements.

Salgado Araujo, 52, was a father of three who had lived in the United States for about 35 years and was working to obtain legal residency, according to his family.

One of his sons, Ronaldo Salgado, told reporters that he learned his father was shot through a video circulating on social media.

“I recognized him immediately, not by his appearance, but by his voice, screaming for help as he lay in the street,” Salgado said.

Then he found out from the news that his father had died.

Salgado told reporters that three men, including his uncle, were with his father at the time of the shooting and were taken to an immigration detention center after the incident.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, an internal watchdog, is investigating the shooting death and the Houston FBI is leading an investigation into the possible assault of a federal law enforcement officer, an ICE spokesperson said in a statement to the BBC last week.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire called for an independent investigation into the incident, and at his direction, the Houston Police Department requested that the Texas Rangers open one.

Days after Salgado Araujo’s death, ICE agents in Maine shot and killed another man, a 26-year-old Colombian named Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, sparking protests in the state.

The back-to-back shootings reignited a debate over ICE’s use of force to arrest and detain people believed to be in the country illegally.

Trump said Tuesday that ICE would continue to make traffic stops – one of its main tools to control immigration – after his border czar, Tom Homan, suggested the stops would be temporarily suspended following the shootings.