Texas ICE shooting leaves Venezuelan DoorDash driver with bullet in his back, says lawyer

The delivery driver was transferred from a hospital to a detention centre, his lawyer tells US media. Watch: 'I am frustrated' – Protestors take to the streets after Austin ICE shooting Protesters gathered in Austin on Sunday after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and wounded a man in the Texas capital. Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez, a 28-year-old Venezuelan DoorDash delivery driver, was shot in the torso and later transferred from hospital to a detention centre with a bullet still in his back, his lawyer told US media. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement to the BBC it was investigating the shooting of a man in Austin who had entered the country illegally.

It is unclear what led to the shooting with the local mayor and police demanding an investigation. It comes months after a man in Houston was shot dead by an ICE officer. Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez was shot and injured by an ICE officer What is ICE and what powers do its agents have to use force? In January, protesters gathered in Austin to demand ICE leave the city Attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch told CBS that Garcés Perez called his wife while "yelling in pain" in hospital. She told National Public Radio he was in ICE custody. The Trump administration has