Immigrant-rights advocates said Monday that Wilber Rafael Garces Perez remained in ICE custody after being shot by an officer in Austin, with alarming claims that he was held while still carrying a bullet from the wound.

City officials had described his condition as serious but stable Sunday. Attorneys sought hospital records, charging decisions, and camera footage. Federal officials had not published a complete use-of-force narrative.

The custody fight turns a local shooting into a national test of ICE transparency during an intensified enforcement year heading into midterms.

NewsHabit’s Politics desk files this card for the 2026-09-21 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: Advocacy and follow-on reports agree Garces Perez remained in federal custody after the shooting. On conflict: Medical and custody details from ICE were not fully public Monday; advocates’ bullet-in-custody claim awaits official confirmation. As always, NewsHabit labels uncertainty rather than papering over it, and prefers primary agency, government, and on-the-record club sources when narratives split.

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