A Texas ICE agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan migrant who was reportedly in the country illegally on Sunday, sparking angry protests near the scene in Austin, according to local authorities and the man\u2019s attorney.<\/p>\n
The officer allegedly shot the migrant \u2014 who was identified by his lawyer<\/a> as 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez \u2014 once in the torso shortly before 1 p.m. following a \u201csmall foot pursuit\u201d on the city\u2019s north side, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said at a media briefing. <\/p>\n The shooting, which happened under a highway overpass, left Garces Perez in serious but stable condition at a nearby hospital, according to Austin Mayor Kirk Watson.<\/p>\n Law enforcement officers investigate the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot an immigrant from Venezuela under a highway overpass in Austin, Texas. New York Times<\/p>\n The wounded man is an alleged illegal immigrant from Venezuela with a final order of removal, Department of Homeland Security sources told Fox News.<\/a><\/p>\n More details about what led up to the gunfire and the ICE operation were not immediately available. Local officials said all information they had was \u201cextremely preliminary\u201d and called for a full investigation into the shooting. <\/p>\n \u201cThe city of Austin deserves answers,\u201d Davis said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to get all those questions answered, and we\u2019ll be as transparent as we can be.\u201d<\/p>\n The Venezuelan national\u2019s immigration attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, told the New York Times<\/a> that she and the man\u2019s wife have been blocked from seeing Garces-Perez and do not know if he is still at the hospital or has been moved into ICE custody elsewhere. <\/p>\n Locals filmed and watched the scene of the shooting on Sunday. New York Times<\/p>\n Police at the scene of the shooting, which occurred after a \u201csmall foot pursuit.\u201d New York Times<\/p>\n The Post has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for more information. <\/p>\n The latest ICE-involved shooting was immediately slammed by Austin leaders and quickly drew crowds of protesters. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very angry about this,\u201d Mayor Watson said at the press conference Sunday afternoon, blasting the federal agency. \u201c[But] I\u2019m not surprised at all. It\u2019s happened in other cities with the nature of ICE and the way ICE is doing its business these days and the chaos that we see it performing and fomenting.\u201d<\/p>\n Dozens of protesters gathered at the scene not long after the shooting, leading to clashes with the authorities, Fox News reported. <\/p>\n The controversial immigration agency has been involved in a number of fatal shootings this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, was shot and killed by ICE officers in Houston <\/a>in July after he had been caught up in an operation the agency had been conducting in the city.<\/p>\n