WASHINGTON (AP) -- The passenger in the car when Texas driver Ruben Ray Martinez was fatally shot last year by a federal immigration agent gave a lengthy statement to lawyers for the slain man's family disputing the government's version of events.

The mayor of San Antonio, Gina Ortiz Jones, has asked Congress to open an investigation into the March 2025 killing of 23‑year‑old Ruben Ray Martinez by a Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) agent on South Padre Island, saying that Martinez's family "deserve answers and transparency around his death," according to a press release issued by the mayor on Saturday, February 21, 2026, which she then posted on social media platform, X.