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Immigration attorney said that 28-year-old Venezuelan citizen was injured.
In the city of Austin, Texas, a man was wounded by gunfire by an employee of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
DW reports this, citing local officials.
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson expressed outrage over the shooting and urged local police to conduct an “unbiased” investigation of the incident.
It is known that the man received a gunshot wound to the upper body during a short foot chase in the northern part of the city. The victim is in a local hospital in serious but stable condition. Officials added that the information available about the incident is “very preliminary.”
According to Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis, city police officers did not participate in either the operation or the shooting.
Officials did not name the man or provide his age or citizenship, but the immigration attorney said that the man is Wilber Rafael Garcia Perez, 28-year-old Venezuelan citizen.
Currently neither ICE nor the Department of Homeland Security, under which the agency operates, has released statements about the incident.
Sunday’s shooting is the latest in a series of ICE incidents, including deadly ones — an agency that has become a symbol of the hardline immigration policy of the Republican administration of President Donald Trump.
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