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

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Wilber Rafael Garces Perez legally entered the country in 2024 via the CBP One app and applied for asylum, his attorneys said. But he missed a court hearing after the notice went to the wrong address. 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.

Garces Perez, who called into the news conference, said an unmarked SUV sideswiped him twice before he realized that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were trying to pull him over. He said he did a U-turn under a freeway underpass when the SUV struck his blue Toyota Camry. That’s when the SUVs turned