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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Uriel J. García, Alex Nguyen and Zach Leggio

Venezuelan man shot by ICE in Austin said he tried to pull over before officers fired at him

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez’s wife told him to stay home on Sunday and spend time with her. But he wanted to work and earn some money as a DoorDash food delivery driver. So he left.

At 12:30 p.m. the 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela called his wife, “shouting that he had been shot and he was in pain, and then the call cut off,” his immigration lawyer, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, said Monday at a news conference a day after the shooting in North Austin.

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