A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old Venezuelan man, Sunday afternoon in north Austin after a traffic stop, local authorities said, prompting hours of protest.

Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said the man was shot once in the torso and was serious but stable. Austin police said they were not part of the ICE operation. Texas DPS said ICE sought pursuit help around 12:50 p.m., but troopers arrived after the shooting. Photos showed a Toyota Corolla with a shattered passenger window and apparent bullet holes.

About a hundred demonstrators faced officers with riot shields while others voiced support for enforcement. Federal officials had not released a full use-of-force narrative by Sunday night. The case lands amid a summer of intensified ICE operations and street clashes in multiple cities.

NewsHabit’s Top Stories desk files this card for the 2026-09-20 America/New_York archive slate, grounded in dual-sourced reporting available that calendar day and without projecting later-week developments backward. Readers should treat rapidly moving war, market, and storm stories as snapshots: officials and independent outlets continue updating confirmed details. Agreement and conflict notes below summarize where major accounts align or diverge on emphasis, numbers, or motive claims.

On agreement: AP reporting agrees an ICE officer shot Garces Perez in Austin Sunday with protests afterward. On conflict: Whether deadly force was justified awaits bodycam evidence and charging decisions. As always, NewsHabit labels uncertainty rather than papering over it, and prefers primary agency, government, and on-the-record club sources when narratives split.