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The Man Shot by ICE in Austin Speaks

DATE POSTED:September 22, 2026
Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, attorney for Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez, speaks during a news conference in Austin on September 21, 2026, about the shooting of her client by an ICE agent the previous day.Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. The reporters, activists, and politicians all leaned forward in the heat, straining to hear the voice coming out of the cell phone, which was held to a microphone by a woman who alternately listened and translated what the voice was saying. The voice belonged to Wilber Rafael Garcés Peréz, a 28-year-old Venezuelan immigrant who had been shot by an ICE agent the day before in North Austin. Perez had been delivering food for DoorDash when he was stopped, shot in the upper back, then taken to Dell Seton Medical Center. His wife, Elizdar, didn’t know where he was until the next morning, when his lawyer, Kate…

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