Steve Foster remembers how nervous he felt as he flew to Austin from Denver late on April 5 — it was the first time in the state capital since 2020, the year his son was gunned down while attending a Black Lives Matter protest in the city with his fiancée.
Foster said he left Texas because of the painful memories related to the fatal shooting, which occurred July 25, 2020 near the corner of Fourth Street and Congress Avenue in downtown Austin. He also avoided going to the murder trial of Daniel Perry, an U.S. Army sergeant from North Texas, who claimed that he shot Garrett Foster, who was 28 years old at the time, out of self-defense.
“I didn’t go to the entire trial was because I didn’t want to rehash it all and go through it all in my head,” Foster said.
