Venezuelan shot by ICE in Austin needs surgery to avoid losing feeling in body, supporters say

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Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, a Venezuelan man, was shot during a traffic stop by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Austin, Texas. He remains detained with a bullet lodged in his back and requires surgery to avoid permanent loss of sensation on the left side of his body, according to supporters.

Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez has bullet lodged in back as accounts differ over events leading to traffic-stop shooting The Venezuelan man shot by federal immigration officers after a traffic stop in Texas needs surgery to avoid losing feeling on the left side of his body, according to his supporters. Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, has spent the past five days in detention with a bullet lodged in his back, after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rapidly removed him from a hospital in Austin where he had been taken on Sunday after the shooting. Continue reading...