Though exact counts vary, Department of Homeland Security agents have shot at about two dozen people in the United States since Donald Trump resumed the country’s highest office last year. Three of those shootings were by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Texas, most recently in North Austin, an area of the city where thousands of migrants live and, not coincidentally, that is inundated with ICE searching for people to detain and deport.
One of these ICE agents shot 28-year-old Venezuelan national Wilber Garces Perez on September 20 under an overpass near the intersection of Research Boulevard and Anderson Lane. Two agents had pulled Garces Perez over while he was making a DoorDash delivery, after running his license plate and finding an active deportation order. In an exchange that has only been shown in court, the ICE agents told Garces Perez to get out of the car before he drove away. The agents chased after him, and the ordeal ended under the overpass after one of them shot at Garces Perez’s car three times from behind. One bullet struck his back.
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