奥斯汀市长柯克·沃森(Kirk Watson)在一份声明中表示,他“对一个人在奥斯汀街头被冰击中感到非常愤怒和极度失望。”
“虽然我感到愤怒和失望,但我并不惊讶。其他城市也发生过这种情况。鉴于冰的恶劣性质和我们所看到的由冰引发的混乱,没有理由感到惊讶。澳大利亚人有权知道发生了什么,他们有权在自己的社区感到安全。
很抱歉,这段文本暂时无法提供译文官员在新闻发布会上说,他被送往当地医院,躯干受枪伤,情况严重但稳定。
美国广播公司新闻已经联系ICE寻求评论。
“我们没有收到ICE的消息。没有人告诉[他的妻子]他的健康状况或他的近况,她也没有和他说过话。因此,我们将追求正义,”该公司在一份声明中说。
一名消息人士称,他被认为是此次行动的目标。
据美国广播公司新闻网(ABC News)在奥斯汀的子公司KVUE报道,这起事件发生在奥斯汀北部,靠近研究大道和安德森广场的交叉口,一辆蓝色丰田卡罗拉(Toyota Corolla)出现在现场,上面有弹孔和乘客侧门的损坏。
一名奥斯汀市议员告诉ABC新闻,市警察不被允许进行犯罪现场调查。
“犯罪现场完全被冰控制了...奥斯汀议员迈克·西格尔告诉美国广播公司新闻,HSI,国土安全调查局,州警察,公共安全部,所以城市警察不被允许进行犯罪现场调查。
西格尔说,周日下午,一名联邦移民官员向一个人开了“至少两枪”。
一辆冰雪福特探险队撞上了一辆蓝色丰田轿车的侧面...一名ICE官员下了车,开了多枪,至少有两枪在我看来是后座乘客车窗上的弹孔,”他说。
ICE officer shoots and injures man in Austin: Police
A man was shot by anImmigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, according to the Austin Police Department, prompting protests at the scene and backlash from local officials.
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a statement he is "very angry and extremely disappointed that a person was shot on the streets of Austin by ICE."
"While I’m angry and disappointed, I’m not surprised. This has happened in other cities. With the rogue nature of ICE and the chaos we’re seeing fomented by ICE, there’s no reason to be surprised. Austinites have a right to know what happened and they have a right to feel safe in their community," he wrote on X.
The man who was shot, identified by his lawyers as Wilber Rafael Garces Perez,was taken to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the torso, where he was in serious but stable condition, officials said during a press conference.
ABC News has reached out to ICE for a comment.
In a statement, Perez's attorneys at Lincoln-Goldfinch Law said they were told by the local hospital that he was transferred into ICE custody following the shooting.
“We’ve not heard from ICE. No one has updated [his wife] about his care or how he is doing, and she has not spoken to him yet. So, we will be pursuing justice,” the firm said in a statement.
A video obtained by ABC News shows the moments after the man was shot. Taken by a witness and provided to a local city councilmember, the video shows him sitting hunched over in the driver's seat of a blue sedan as ICE officers surround the car.
The man can be heard saying in Spanish that he was shot because he did not "brake." Later in the video, the man is seen handcuffed while officers cut his shirt, exposing a gunshot wound on his back.
Law enforcement sources told ABC News the shooting occurred during a targeted ICE operation and the person shot is believed to be a Venezuelan national illegally in the United States with a final order of removal.
A source said that he is believed to be the target of the operation.
The incident occurred in North Austin near the intersection of Research Boulevard and Anderson Square Sunday afternoon, where a blue Toyota Corolla was at the scene with bullet holes and damage to the passenger-side doors, according to ABC News' Austin affiliate KVUE.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement that they were called to help with a pursuit involving a vehicle, but when they arrived at the scene, a person had already been shot. Texas DPS rangers are assisting Austin PD with the investigation.
An Austin city councilmember told ABC News that city police were not permitted to conduct a crime scene investigation.
"The crime scene was entirely controlled by ICE ... HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, as well as state police, Department of Public Safety, and so the city police were not being permitted to conduct a crime scene investigation,” Austin Councilmember Mike Siegel told ABC News.
Siegel said that a federal immigration officer fired “at least two shots” at an individual on Sunday afternoon.
“An ICE Ford Expedition rammed into the side of a blue Toyota sedan ... an ICE officer got out of the vehicle and fired multiple shots, at least two of which were visible to me as bullet holes in the rear passenger window,” he said.
The councilmember told ABC News that he is working with city officials to ensure that the ICE officer who allegedly shot the individual is not allowed to leave Texas.





