A Venezuelan man was shot by ICE in Austin while doing deliveries. Here’s what we know

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A Venezuelan man who was wounded Sunday when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot him is back in the hospital and asking a court to intervene before he can be removed from the country. , one of the latest shooting incidents involving the agency since the Trump administration started its immigration crackdown .

The man, identified as 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, was doing delivery delivering orders for DoorDash at the time of the confrontation , – one of the latest shooting incidents involving the agency since the Trump administration started its immigration crackdown – his attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch said. Making this is one of the latest shooting incidents involving the agency since the Trump administration started its immigration crackdown.

Federal authorities haven’t said what led to the shooting of Garces Perez, who was taken to a hospital Monday evening after earlier being detained at the South Texas ICE Processing Center, according to his attorney. She also filed a petition in federal court Monday asking a judge to block the government from deporting Garces Perez and release him from custody while his case is pending.

The local district attorney has called for an independent investigation into what happened.

This is at least the third shooting involving immigration agents in Texas since President Donald Trump started his second term, and is part of a larger trend of shootings by federal agents since stricter immigration enforcement began.

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Tracking the numbers behind Trump’s immigration offensive

At least 20 people have been shot by on-duty ICE and US Customs and Border Protection agents during the second Trump administration, eight fatally, prior to Sunday, according to a CNN analysis.

Here is what we know so far about the latest shooting:

Garces Perez was driving in North Austin on Sunday when he was shot in the torso just before 1 p.m., officials said.

DoorDash said he was working as a Dasher at the time of the shooting.

ICE officers were conducting targeted immigration enforcement operations Sunday based on license plate checks when they came across a vehicle registered to Garces Perez, who had a deportation order, according to a source familiar with the incident.

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Officers conducted a vehicle stop and questioned Garces Perez, who had a brief exchange with the officers before he fled the scene in his car, the source said. It is unclear whether Garces Perez’s car came to a complete stop or was moving during the initial exchange. The shooting happened later.

During a news conference Monday, Garces Perez called in from ICE custody and gave his own account of the shooting with the help of an interpreter.

Garces Perez said the SUV tried to hit him, which he originally interpreted as an aggressive driver. When he realized ICE agents were in the vehicle, Garces Perez said he asked to pull over to be detained but the federal official denied his request.

Garces Perez said when he attempted a U-turn to park the car, the SUV ran into his car and he was then shot, according to the translator.

He said after he was shot, an officer went into his car and “forcibly turned it off.” He told the officer he was in pain and felt like he was going to pass out shortly before EMTs arrived.

The Department of Homeland Security has not given a detailed account of what happened or responded to CNN’s request for comment on the circumstances of the incident.

Homeland Security Investigations, the agency’s investigative branch, will lead the investigation with assistance from the FBI, DHS said in a post on X without providing further details.

CNN reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment on Garces Perez’s account of events.

“I see ICE following their same PR pattern in this case,” Lincoln-Goldfinch told CNN on Monday. “There is no evidence to be seen that Wilber was doing anything but driving his car down the road.”

Video of the shooting was also captured by Heidi Clark, who was livestreaming to Facebook while driving down Research Boulevard. As she drove toward the intersection with Anderson Square, loud tire screeches interrupted her as she spoke.

“Woah!” Clark said as she turned her phone camera toward the scene and a person could be seen in the distance running out of an SUV toward a blue sedan.

Video from after the shooting showed a blue Toyota Corolla with damage to the front passenger door and at least two apparent bullet holes in the right rear window, according to footage shared by CNN affiliate KVUE and several witness videos taken at the scene.

Before returning to the hospital, Garces Perez told reporters Monday that he was “not doing well” and was in a lot of pain, adding that doctors had not removed the bullet because it was too close to his spine.

“They sent him to (an ICE facility) with a bullet in his back without pain medication, and he slept overnight in a processing center without a bed,” his lawyer said.

Garces Perez also relayed, through the interpreter, that he was in a cold room with no bed at the ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, about 100 miles southwest of Austin.

Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas said someone from his office visited Garces Perez on Monday, and reported that ICE was taking him back to the hospital as he was still reporting a lot of pain, he said in a video he posted on X .

Garces Perez has lost movement on the “entire left side of his body,” Lincoln-Goldfinch told CNN’s Erin Burnett Monday evening, which means he could be “facing paralysis.”

Later Monday, Lincoln-Goldfinch said in a video on social media that she was told by a fellow inmate that Garces Perez had been taken to a hospital. She told CNN she didn’t have an update on his condition.

CNN has reached out to DHS about his comments on his injury and the conditions of the processing center.

Video obtained by ABC News taken after the shooting and obtained by CNN shows Garces Perez sitting on a curb with his hands cuffed behind his back as he’s detained by authorities. His shirt is cut open during the video to reveal what appears to be a gaping gunshot wound in his back.

DHS and Garces Perez’s attorney have different accounts about his legal status.

DHS said in a post on X that Garces Perez is an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela who had a final order for removal, adding he is stable and “in federal custody pending removal.”

But Garces Perez’s his attorney said Garces Perez entered the country on an asylum claim, where he was allowed into the country and issued a work permit. He had been protected from deportation by a parole program that included Venezuelans, which the Trump administration ended last year, Lincoln-Goldfinch said.

“He had a pending court date, and the immigration court changed his court date without notifying him,” Lincoln-Goldfinch said, which ended up with Garces Perez receiving a removal order in absentia.

Lincoln-Goldfinch said she used “back channels” to find out where Garces Perez is being held. ICE recently removed the location of detainees with final removal orders from an online database, complicating their attorneys’ efforts to prevent their deportation, The Associated Press reported Monday.

The Travis County District Attorney’s office, which covers most of Austin, said in a statement Sunday night that “it is critical that all the facts come to light and that an independent investigation be completed.”

“We are requesting that the Austin Police Department and our office, the Travis County District Attorney, be co-equal partners in the investigation,” the statement said, and asked for access to evidence the federal government has in this case.

The statement is reminiscent of the requests the Hennepin County Attorney’s office has made in Minneapolis regarding the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti . DHS turned over some evidence to state officials last July but hasn’t released findings in their investigations.

Austin’s Democratic Mayor Kirk Watson said during a news conference Sunday that is important for the city to be involved in the investigation, adding “Austinites have a right to know what happened.”

“While I’m unhappy and I’m angry about it, I’m not surprised at all,” Watson said of the shooting. “It’s happened in other cities with the nature of ICE and the way ICE is doing its business these days.”

CNN has reached out to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s office for comment.

The League of United Latin American Citizens, the Latino civil rights organization founded in Texas, also called on measures to curtail DHS, saying Congress should establish an independent oversight of immigration, and guarantee any DHS or ICE official who violates a person’s constitutional rights will be investigated and prosecuted, they said in a statement Sunday.

“No agency should be the sole judge of its own conduct,” Roman Palomares, LULAC chair and national president, said in a statement. “When the government takes or endangers a life, the Constitution demands due process and accountability, and those protections belong to every person in this country.”

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In the past several months, Texas has been at the center of the debate on immigration enforcement. In July, ICE agents fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo , a Mexican immigrant, in Houston during a traffic stop. ICE agents tried to conduct a traffic stop as part of a “targeted operation” and Salgado Araujo attempted to evade arrest, an agency spokesperson said in a statement to CNN at the time.

Earlier this month, two teens who are US citizens said they were attacked by ICE agents in Alamo, Texas, after they recorded an immigration stop, with video showing one being repeatedly punched in the head while pinned to the pavement. DHS told CNN in a statement at the time “two anti-ICE agitators” refused to follow verbal commands and were detained after “they attempted to obstruct officers conducting a vehicle stop.”

“This is a pattern – it’s a disturbing pattern – and it’s got to stop,” said US Rep. Greg Casar, a Democrat who represents part of Austin.

Just hours after Garces Perez was shot, protesters gathered near the busy intersection where the shooting took place. Protesters were seen lining the streets, some chanting, some holding Mexican flags.

“I’ve lived in Austin all my life, but from what I’ve been seeing right now, I’ve never felt more betrayed,” Jaasiel Avilva, a 22-year-old Army veteran and son of Mexican immigrants, told CNN. “It’s just domestic terrorism.”

Janney Olvera, 13, told CNN affiliate KEYE she and her mother went to the protest fresh from finishing cheerleading practice.

“We’re not getting any justice,” Olvera told the outlet as she held a Mexican flag to honor her Mexican and Guatemalan heritage. “This is supposed to protect our streets? I don’t think so.”

CNN’s Eduardo Cuevas, Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough, Boer Deng, Julianna Bragg, Amanda Jackson, Sarah Dewberry, Federica Narcancio and Catherine Shoichet contributed to this report.

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一名委内瑞拉男子周日被美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）特工开枪击伤，目前已返回医院接受治疗，并请求法院介入，阻止他被驱逐出境。这是自特朗普政府开始严厉打击移民以来，该机构发生的最新一起枪击事件。

据其律师凯特·林肯-戈尔德芬奇称，这名男子名叫威尔伯·拉斐尔·加尔塞斯·佩雷斯，28岁，事发时正在为外卖平台DoorDash送餐，这是自特朗普政府开始严厉打击移民以来，该机构发生的最新一起枪击事件。

联邦当局尚未说明导致加尔塞斯·佩雷斯遭枪击的原因。据其律师称，加尔塞斯·佩雷斯周一晚间被送往医院，此前他曾被拘留在南德克萨斯州移民及海关执法局（ICE）处理中心。她的律师周一还向联邦法院提交了一份请愿书，请求法官阻止政府将加尔塞斯·佩雷斯驱逐出境，并在案件审理期间将其释放。

当地检察官已要求对事件进行独立调查。

这是自唐纳德·特朗普总统开始第二个任期以来，德克萨斯州发生的至少第三起涉及移民执法人员的枪击事件，也是自更严格的移民执法开始以来，联邦执法人员枪击事件不断增加的更大趋势的一部分。

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追踪特朗普移民攻势背后的数据

据 CNN 分析，在特朗普第二任期内，至少有 20 人被执勤的美国移民及海关执法局 (ICE) 和美国海关与边境保护局 (CBP) 特工枪击，其中 8 人死亡，以上事件均发生在周日之前。

以下是我们目前了解到的有关最新枪击事件的信息：

官方称，加尔塞斯·佩雷斯周日下午1点前在奥斯汀北部驾车时，胸部中枪。

DoorDash公司表示，枪击事件发生时他正在担任送餐员。

据一位知情人士透露，周日，美国移民及海关执法局 (ICE) 官员根据车牌检查开展有针对性的移民执法行动时，发现一辆登记在加尔塞斯·佩雷斯名下的车辆，而加尔塞斯·佩雷斯已被下达驱逐令。

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消息人士称，警方拦停了一辆车并询问了加尔塞斯·佩雷斯，他与警方短暂交谈后驾车逃离现场。目前尚不清楚加尔塞斯·佩雷斯的车在最初交谈期间是完全停下还是处于行驶状态。枪击事件发生在之后。

周一的新闻发布会上，加尔塞斯·佩雷斯从美国移民及海关执法局的拘留所打来电话，在翻译的帮助下讲述了自己对枪击事件的描述。

加尔塞斯·佩雷斯说，那辆SUV试图撞他，他最初以为是对方司机驾驶鲁莽。当他意识到车里是移民执法局（ICE）的特工时，加尔塞斯·佩雷斯说他要求靠边停车接受拘留，但联邦官员拒绝了他的请求。

据翻译人员称，加尔塞斯·佩雷斯表示，当他试图掉头停车时，那辆SUV撞上了他的车，然后他就被枪击了。

他说，他中枪后，一名警官进入他的车内，“强行熄火”。他告诉警官，他当时很痛苦，感觉快要昏过去了，就在急救人员到达之前不久。

美国国土安全部尚未就事件经过给出详细说明，也没有回应 CNN 就事件情况提出的置评请求。

国土安全部在其官方网站 X 上发布消息称，国土安全调查局（该机构的调查部门）将牵头进行调查，联邦调查局将提供协助，但并未提供更多细节。

CNN联系了国土安全部，就加尔塞斯·佩雷斯对事件的描述寻求置评。

林肯-戈尔德芬奇周一告诉CNN：“我认为美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）在这个案子中沿用了他们一贯的公关策略。没有任何证据表明威尔伯当时除了开车上路之外做了什么其他事情。”

海蒂·克拉克也拍摄到了枪击事件的视频。当时她正驾车行驶在研究大道上，并通过Facebook进行直播。当她驾车驶向安德森广场的十字路口时，刺耳的轮胎摩擦声打断了她的讲话。

“哇！”克拉克说着，把手机摄像头转向现场，可以看到远处有人从一辆SUV里跑出来，朝一辆蓝色轿车跑去。

枪击事件发生后的视频显示，一辆蓝色丰田卡罗拉轿车的前排乘客车门受损，右后车窗上至少有两个明显的弹孔。这一说法来自 CNN 附属电视台 KVUE 分享的视频以及几位目击者在现场拍摄的视频。

周一，加尔塞斯·佩雷斯在返回医院前告诉记者，他“情况不太好”，非常痛苦，并补充说，医生还没有取出子弹，因为它离他的脊柱太近了。

他的律师说：“他们把他送到（移民和海关执法局的）设施时，他背部中弹，却没有给他止痛药，而且他还在没有床的拘留中心过夜。”

加尔塞斯·佩雷斯还通过翻译转述说，他被关在皮尔索尔的移民和海关执法局处理中心一个没有床的寒冷房间里，该中心位于奥斯汀西南约 100 英里处。

德克萨斯州众议员华金·卡斯特罗 (Joaquin Castro) 表示，他的办公室有人周一探望了加尔塞斯·佩雷斯 (Garces Perez)，并报告说，由于加尔塞斯·佩雷斯仍然感到非常疼痛，美国移民及海关执法局 (ICE) 正将他送回医院。他在 X 上发布的一段视频中说道。

林肯-戈尔德芬奇周一晚上告诉 CNN 的艾琳·伯内特，加尔塞斯·佩雷斯“左侧身体完全失去活动能力”，这意味着他可能“面临瘫痪”。

周一晚些时候，林肯-戈尔德芬奇在社交媒体上发布的一段视频中表示，她从一名狱友处得知加尔塞斯·佩雷斯已被送往医院。她告诉CNN，她目前尚不清楚他的病情。

CNN已就他关于受伤情况和处理中心状况的评论联系了国土安全部。

美国广播公司新闻网（ABC News）获取的、由美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）获得的视频显示，加尔塞斯·佩雷斯在枪击事件发生后坐在路边，双手被铐在背后，被警方拘留。视频中，他的衬衫被撕开，露出背部疑似一道触目惊心的枪伤。

国土安全部和加尔塞斯·佩雷斯的律师对他的法律地位有不同的说法。

美国国土安全部在 X 网站上发帖称，加尔塞斯·佩雷斯是一名来自委内瑞拉的无证移民，已被下达最终遣返令，并补充说他目前情况稳定，“已被联邦拘留，等待遣返”。

但加尔塞斯·佩雷斯的律师表示，加尔塞斯·佩雷斯是以寻求庇护者的身份进入美国的，他获准入境并获得了工作许可。林肯-戈尔德芬奇说，他此前受到一项包括委内瑞拉人在内的假释计划的保护，免遭遣返，但该计划已于去年被特朗普政府终止。

“他原本有一个待开庭的日期，但移民法庭在没有通知他的情况下更改了他的开庭日期，”林肯-戈尔德芬奇说，结果导致加尔塞斯·佩雷斯被缺席下达了驱逐令。

林肯-戈尔德芬奇表示，她利用“非正式渠道”查明了加尔塞斯·佩雷斯的关押地点。美联社周一报道称，美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）近期从在线数据库中删除了已被下达最终遣返令的被拘留者的位置信息，这使得他们的律师阻止其被遣返的努力变得更加复杂。

特拉维斯县地方检察官办公室（管辖奥斯汀大部分地区）周日晚间发表声明称，“至关重要的是，所有事实都必须公之于众，并且必须完成一项独立调查。”

声明称：“我们要求奥斯汀警察局和我们办公室，即特拉维斯县地方检察官办公室，在调查中成为平等的合作伙伴”，并要求查阅联邦政府在此案中掌握的证据。

这份声明让人想起亨内平县检察官办公室就雷妮·古德和亚历克斯·普雷蒂枪击案向明尼阿波利斯提出的请求。国土安全部去年7月向州政府官员移交了一些证据，但尚未公布调查结果。

奥斯汀民主党籍市长柯克·沃森周日在新闻发布会上表示，该市参与调查非常重要，并补充说“奥斯汀市民有权知道发生了什么事”。

沃森谈到枪击事件时说：“虽然我对此感到不快和愤怒，但我一点也不感到惊讶。鉴于美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）的性质以及他们目前的行事方式，这种事在其他城市也发生过。”

CNN已联系共和党州长格雷格·阿博特的办公室寻求置评。

美国拉丁裔公民联盟（一个成立于德克萨斯州的拉丁裔民权组织）也呼吁采取措施限制国土安全部，他们在周日的一份声明中表示，国会应该建立独立的移民监督机构，并保证任何侵犯公民宪法权利的国土安全部或移民及海关执法局官员都将受到调查和起诉。

“任何机构都不应独自评判自身​​的行为，”拉丁裔美国公民联盟（LULAC）主席兼全国主席罗曼·帕洛马雷斯在一份声明中表示。“当政府剥夺或危及生命时，宪法要求必须遵循正当程序并承担责任，而这些保护措施属于这个国家的每一个人。”

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过去几个月，德克萨斯州一直是移民执法辩论的焦点。7月，美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）特工在休斯顿的一次交通拦截中开枪打死了墨西哥移民洛伦佐·萨尔加多·阿劳霍。ICE发言人当时在给CNN的一份声明中表示，ICE特工试图进行一次“有针对性的行动”，而萨尔加多·阿劳霍试图逃避逮捕。

本月初，两名美国公民青少年称，他们在德克萨斯州阿拉莫市拍摄移民执法人员拦截车辆的视频后遭到美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）特工的袭击。视频显示，其中一人被按倒在地，头部遭到反复殴打。美国国土安全部当时在一份声明中告诉CNN，两名“反ICE煽动者”拒绝服从口头指令，并在“试图阻挠执法人员进行车辆拦截”后被拘留。

“这是一种模式——一种令人不安的模式——必须制止，”代表奥斯汀部分地区的民主党众议员格雷格·卡萨尔说道。

加尔塞斯·佩雷斯遭枪击后仅数小时，抗议者就聚集在枪击案​​发生的繁忙路口附近。抗议者们沿街排成一列，一些人高喊口号，一些人挥舞着墨西哥国旗。

“我一辈子都住在奥斯汀，但就我目前所见，我从未感到如此被背叛，”22岁的退伍军人、墨西哥移民之子贾西尔·阿维尔瓦告诉CNN。“这简直就是国内恐怖主义。”

13 岁的 Janney Olvera 告诉 CNN 附属电视台 KEYE，她和母亲刚结束啦啦队训练就去参加了抗议活动。

“我们没有得到任何公正的对待，”奥尔维拉一边说着，一边挥舞着墨西哥国旗，以示对她墨西哥和危地马拉血统的敬意。“这就能保护我们的街道？我不这么认为。”

CNN 的 Eduardo Cuevas、Ed Lavandera、Ashley Killough、Boer Deng、Julianna Bragg、Amanda Jackson、Sarah Dewberry、Federica Narcancio 和 Catherine Shoichet 对本报告做出了贡献。