AUSTIN, TX. (NBC, KYMA) – An ICE officer shot and seriously wounded a Venezuelan man Sunday afternoon in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old man, identified by an attorney as Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, was shot in the torso around 1 p.m. and was taken to the hospital in serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n
He has since been released from the hospital and he’s believed to now be in ice custody.<\/p>\n
A law enforcement source told NBC news that the man, who lives in Austin with his wife, is in the U.S. illegally and was also given a final order of removal.<\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security has not, however, provided information about whether the ICE agents involved were wearing body cameras.<\/p>\n
Or if the man who was shot was the target of the operation or if they have any criminal background other than an immigration violation.<\/p>\n
The White House referred NBC news to the DHS for comment, a DHS spokesperson said they will look into it.<\/p>\n
Protesters gathered at the site of the shooting expressing their concern over the incident as police officers and ICE agents taped off the area.<\/p>\n
City officials held a press conference later in the afternoon to provide the public with what information they had.<\/p>\n
Austin police chief Lisa Davis said there was a small foot pursuit before the shooting.<\/p>\n
Although the mayor said the Austin Police Department was not involved in the shooting, their investigators were on the scene to assist.<\/p>\n
Mayor Kirk Watson said he asked for the city of Austin to be involved in the investigation going forward.<\/p>\n
This comes two months after another ice officer fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston during an attempted traffic stop.<\/p>\n
Araujo was a Mexican national, the DHS said he was in the country illegally and tried to run over agents with his car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, TX. (NBC, KYMA) – An ICE officer shot and seriously wounded a Venezuelan man Sunday afternoon in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-443002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}