{"id":443604,"date":"2026-09-22T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443604\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:46:08","slug":"4-arrested-during-north-austin-protest-after-ice-officer-shooting-apd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443604\/","title":{"rendered":"4 arrested during North Austin protest after ICE officer shooting, APD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Four people were arrested during a<a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/ice-shooting-in-north-austin-sparks-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> large protest Sunday<\/a> that followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/one-person-injured-in-north-austin-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting of a man by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in North Austin<\/a>, according to the Austin Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>APD identified three men arrested during the protest as Robert Padgett, 48; Armando Menagarcia, 29; and Matthew Hemby, 44.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/ice-shooting-in-north-austin-sparks-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED| ICE shooting in North Austin sparks protest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the less-lethal measures were used to maintain order and ensure officer safety.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>APD said its Dialogue Team was present and engaged throughout the evening.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting remains under investigation by APD&#8217;s Special Investigations Unit and the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Four people were arrested during a large protest Sunday that followed the shooting of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-443604","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\/443604","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=443604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}