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Man shot by ICE describes pain of bullet still inside him

He says the bullet was not removed during treatment and remains near his spinal cord, causing pain and complicating his recovery.

A Venezuelan national shot and wounded by a US immigration agent in Texas was jailed with the bullet still inside his body, his lawyer said Monday.

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“I still have the bullet in me,” says Wilbur Garcés Pérez. The 28-year-old Venezuelan national, who was shot in the torso by an ICE agent in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, gave his version of events by phone Monday from the detention center he has been transferred to. The young man spoke during a press conference organized by his lawyer, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, and supporters, including groups, yesterday afternoon in Austin, the capital of Texas. “I …

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Garcés was shot in the top of his back on Sunday. The shot was shot by a member of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE), in a new incident that puts the spotlight on the immigration operations promoted by the President of the United States, Donald Trump. The 28-year-old man was first taken to the hospital and then transferred to a detention center in Pearsall, about 200 kilometers south-west of Austin. In telephone connection with t…

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PBS NewsHour broke the news in Arlington, United States on Monday, September 21, 2026.
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