Feds charge man shot by ICE agent with assaulting an officer Federal prosecutors in Texas have charged a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot by an ICE agent earlier this month with assaulting a federal officer.
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Texas Illustrative image, not of the event Image: Michael Barera / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0 ) An affidavit unsealed Tuesday said the officer who shot Wilber Garcés Pérez was not wearing a body camera and another officer had turned his camera off, according to The Washington Post.
✓ See how we verified it and its 3 sources✓ How we verified this storyConfirmed Feds charge man shot by ICE agent with assaulting an officer — confirmed by: CBS News, The Washington Post, The Independent Federal prosecutors in Texas have charged a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot by an ICE agent earlier this month with assaulting a federal officer — confirmed by: CBS News, The Independent DoorDash driver shot by ICE in Texas is charged with assaulting officers — confirmed by: The Independent, CBS News Attributed (not independently confirmed) 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… — CBS News 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… — CBS News Read our Privacy notice The Department of Justice has charged a Venezuelan immigrant with assault after he was shot by a federal immigration officer during a traffic stop in Austin, Texas. — The Independent Wilber Garcés Pérez, who said he was driving for DoorDash when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped him on September 20, was sent to a detention center with a bullet still lodged near… — The Independent L.G. was not wearing a body camera.The HSI agent who wrote the affidavit also said he spoke to Garces Perez as part of the investigation — CBS News An unsealed affidavit signed by a Homeland Security investigator accuses Garcés Pérez of striking an officer in the torso with his car’s side-view mirror before leading agents on what investigators… — The Independent Not yet confirmed The agents approached and told Garces Perez to get out, according to the affidavit, but he allegedly ignored the order and asked one of the agents, L.G., if he could move the car and park it. — CBS News This story was checked against 3 independent sources. We only present as fact what reliable sources confirm; everything else is attributed.
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