It was revealed on Tuesday that DOJ prosecutors charged the Venezuelan illegal alien who was shot by ICE for assaulting a federal officer.
An ICE agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan illegal alien during a confrontation in the 7000 block of West Anderson Lane in North Austin earlier this month.
The wounded illegal was transported to a local hospital and in stable condition.
According to reports, an ICE SUV rammed into the illegal alien’s blue Toyota Corolla when he tried to drive away.
An ICE agent got out of his vehicle and shot the illegal as he tried to flee.
The illegal, identified as Wilbur Rafael Garces Perez, claimed that police officers yanked him out of the car after he was shot.
Police bodycam footage shows officers gently helped him out of the vehicle and cuffed him.
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CBS News reported:
On Tuesday it was revealed that federal prosecutors charged Wilber Rafael Garces Perez with assaulting a federal agent.
Federal prosecutors in Texas have charged a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent earlier this month with assaulting a federal officer, according to court documents unveiled Tuesday.
The prosecutors accused 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez of striking an ICE officer with his vehicle’s side-view mirror as he drove away in an attempt to evade arrest. Garces Perez faces one count of assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer.
An agent from the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations laid out the allegations in an eight-page affidavit filed in support of a criminal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The agent said he had interviewed one of the two ICE officers who was involved in the Sept. 20 incident, identified as D.F. The other officer, L.G., was the one who opened fire, and that officer’s account is not included in the filing.
D.F. said both agents began following Garces Perez’s car after checking his license plate and finding that he had a final order of removal from an immigration judge.
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