Man shot by ICE officer is detained in Texas with a bullet still in his back, attorney's office says – Spectrum News

Man shot by ICE officer is detained in Texas with a bullet still in his back, attorney’s office says  Spectrum News

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, has released little information and has not said what prompted the shooting. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and taken to a detention center in Texas with a bullet still lodged in his back was back in the hospital by Monday night, the man’s attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was making a DoorDash delivery in Austin on Sunday when his car was “sideswiped” twice by ICE officers in an unmarked truck, immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch told reporters earlier Monday. He was shot and taken to a hospital, she said, but was released later Sunday into ICE custody with the bullet still inside him.

Speaking by phone during a news conference, Perez had said doctors didn’t remove the bullet because it’s near his spine. He said ICE pressed for him to be released quickly from the hospital so it could move him to a detention center. He said he had received no pain medication or treatment there and had slept on the floor, before eventually being given a “pill” by a nurse on Monday. By Monday night, Lincoln-Goldfinch said he had been taken to the hospital. U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, a Texas Democrat, described this as a positive first step. “Now,