{"id":473966,"date":"2026-10-23T00:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473966\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T00:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:34:08","slug":"daniel-perry-found-not-guilty-of-deadly-conduct-charge-in-2020-austin-protest-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473966\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Perry found not guilty of deadly conduct charge in 2020 Austin protest shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A Travis County jury found Daniel Perry not guilty Thursday of a <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/us-army-sgt-accused-of-shooting-and-killing-austin-protester-indicted-on-several-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">misdemeanor deadly conduct charge<\/a> stemming from the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/shooting-in-downtown-austin-leaves-at-least-one-critically-injured-07-26-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2020 fatal shooting of Garrett Foster<\/a> during a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/attorney-man-who-shot-austin-protester-did-not-go-to-victims-memorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Perry shot and killed Foster in July 2020<\/a> while driving for Uber in downtown Austin, where demonstrators had gathered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/mistrial-declared-on-day-one-of-jury-selection-in-daniel-perry-deadly-conduct-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED| Mistrial declared on day one of jury selection in Daniel Perry deadly conduct case<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perry was previously <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/daniel-perry-convicted-of-murder-in-fatal-shooting-at-black-lives-matter-protest-garrett-foster-austin-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">convicted of murder in Foster&#8217;s death in 2023<\/a> and sentenced to 25 years in prison. However, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/texas-parole-board-unanimously-recommends-pardon-in-blm-protester-murder-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">granted Perry a full pardon<\/a> in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Travis County prosecutors later pursued a separate misdemeanor deadly conduct charge stemming from the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier trial on the misdemeanor charge <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/judge-declares-mistrial-in-daniel-perry-deadly-conduct-case-after-jury-selection-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ended in a mistrial<\/a> following jury selection issues.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, jurors returned a not guilty verdict. Perry&#8217;s attorney, Doug O&#8217;Connell, also announced the verdict on social media.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to CBS Austin, the Travis County Attorney&#8217;s Office expressed disappointment with the verdict while acknowledging the jury&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are grateful for the hard work of our trial team and, while we are disappointed in the outcome, we appreciate the jury&#8217;s time and respect their decision,&#8221; the office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A Travis County jury found Daniel Perry not guilty Thursday of a misdemeanor deadly conduct&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-473966","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\/473966","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=473966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}