{"id":453905,"date":"2026-10-02T03:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453905\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T03:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:32:07","slug":"wilber-garces-perez-undergoes-surgery-after-ice-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453905\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilber Garces Perez undergoes surgery after ICE shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wilber Garces Perez, the man who was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in North Austin<\/a> last month, underwent surgery on Thursday.<\/p>\n

His lawyer, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, said he is now recovering and has spoken to his family.<\/p>\n

According to a press release sent out on behalf of Lincoln-Goldfinch and Daniel Woodward of the Texas Civil Rights Project, ICE would not grant Garces Perez’s wife access to the operating room.<\/p>\n

He was shot on Sept. 20, after fleeing from a traffic stop, court documents show. As of Thursday, he had a bullet lodged in his back for about 11 days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a public safety issue,\u201d the lawyers’ statement said. \u201cFederal agents cannot act as judge, jury, and executioner on our streets. We\u2019re seeing agents run plates, make high-risk stops of people with no criminal record, and fail to wear or activate the cameras meant to hold them accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The officer who shot Garces Perez, who is a Venezuelan national, was not wearing a body camera, according to Rick Bazan, a Department of Homeland Security special agent who testified in court on Wednesday. The other officer involved had turned off his body camera prior to arriving at the scene.<\/p>\n

Garces Perez is facing up to 20 years in prison for allegedly assaulting, resisting, interfering and impeding a federal officer.<\/p>\n

He is being held by the U.S. Marshals Service, according to his lawyer, following a judge’s ruling that he is a flight risk and will remain in custody. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilber Garces Perez, the man who was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in North Austin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,10533,1829,3647,9122,153110],"class_list":["post-453905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-tx","tag-ice","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-surgery","tag-wilber-garces-perez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453905","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=453905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}