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Wilber Rafael Garc\u00e9s Perez’s wife said he was making a food delivery at the time of the incident Sunday.via Attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch<\/p>\nAn ICE officer shot and seriously wounded a Venezuelan man Sunday afternoon as he was delivering food in Austin, Texas, his lawyer said.<\/p>\n
The man was taken to a local hospital and was \u201cin serious but stable condition\u201d after being shot in the torso, Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz said at a news conference earlier.<\/p>\n
The White House referred NBC News to the Department of Homeland Security for comment. A spokesperson for the DHS, the federal agency to which Immigration and Customs Enforcement belongs, said in a statement late Sunday that the man was stable and was in federal custody pending removal from the U.S.<\/p>\n
Immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch identified him as Wilber Rafael Garc\u00e9s Perez, 28, and said he was an asylum seeker who entered the country through a parole program. <\/p>\n
\u201cToday at 12:30, Wilber called his wife to tell her that he had been shot,\u201d Lincoln-Goldfinch said in an interview. \u201cAnd he was yelling in agony, and the call cut off. That was all she knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilber Rafael Garc\u00e9s Perez’s wife said he was making a food delivery at the time of the incident Sunday.via Attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch<\/p>\n
The DHS spokesperson said Garc\u00e9s Perez entered the country illegally under the Biden administration and had a final order of removal, adding that Homeland Security Investigations, with help from the FBI, will lead an investigation into the shooting.<\/p>\n
The shooting occurred around 1 p.m. in North Austin.<\/p>\n
Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Sheridan Nolen said the agency received a request for assistance from ICE for a vehicle pursuit involving a blue Toyota Corolla.<\/p>\n
A social media video verified by NBC News captures the sound of tires screeching followed by a person exiting a dark-colored SUV as a blue sedan is stopped next to it, both vehicles facing one another. <\/p>\n
At least three gunshots are heard as the person approaches the sedan and runs up to it as it slowly lurches forward. The video shows the person standing next to the sedan\u2019s driver\u2019s side as it stops in front of an intersection. The sedan also appears to be damaged on the passenger side. <\/p>\n
The shooting occurred before DPS troopers arrived at the scene, Nolen said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce they arrived, DPS Troopers immediately began assisting partner law enforcement agencies in performing medical treatment on the driver of the Toyota Corolla,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Lincoln-Goldfinch, who is representing Garc\u00e9s Perez, said lawyers for the hospital where he was treated indicated he had been released, though she wasn\u2019t sure at the time to whom.<\/p>\n
Lincoln-Goldfinch said she was with his wife at the hospital earlier, hoping to get information on his condition, but they were escorted from the premises.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe not only were lied to and told that he wasn\u2019t there, but we were thrown off the hospital grounds by several officers who treated us as trespassers,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ICE officer shot and seriously wounded a Venezuelan man Sunday afternoon as he was delivering food in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-855309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}