AUSTIN, Texas — Four people were arrested during a large protest Sunday that followed the shooting of a man by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in North Austin, according to the Austin Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety.
APD identified three men arrested during the protest as Robert Padgett, 48; Armando Menagarcia, 29; and Matthew Hemby, 44.
Padgett was charged with resisting arrest and riot. Menagarcia was charged with assault on a peace officer, resisting arrest, and riot. Hemby was charged with riot, according to APD.
DPS separately confirmed Monday that troopers arrested Kevin Howard Davis, 60, on a charge of obstructing a highway or other passageway, a state jail felony.
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DPS said personnel responded to the demonstration near Anderson Square and Research Boulevard and deployed pepper ball bursts and pepper ball projectiles after repeated orders for the crowd to disperse.
The agency said the less-lethal measures were used to maintain order and ensure officer safety.
APD said hundreds of people gathered in the area after an ICE officer shot and injured 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier Sunday.
Police said some people in the crowd threw rocks, bottles, and pieces of concrete. Three APD vehicles were damaged, and three Austin police officers sustained minor injuries.
APD said its Dialogue Team was present and engaged throughout the evening.
Garces Perez was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound to the torso and was later released into ICE custody. A law enforcement source confirmed Monday that he is being held at an ICE facility in Pearsall.
The shooting remains under investigation by APD’s Special Investigations Unit and the Texas Rangers.