ICE Shooting Austin
Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis, left, Mayor Kirk Watson, center, and City Manager T.C. Broadnax leave a news conference at the Austin Public Safety Headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, providing an update after an ICE agent shot and wounded Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin, Texas, Sunday.
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The attorney for a Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas says he's back in an ICE detention center after being taken to a hospital for a second time. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was being held Tuesday at a federal center in South Texas. His attorney says Perez was making a DoorDash delivery Sunday in Austin when immigration officers in an unmarked vehicle sideswiped his car and forced it to stop. Perez was shot and taken to a hospital. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
