An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and wounded a man Sunday in Austin, city officials said.
The man is in “stable but serious condition” after being shot in the torso, and he was transported to a trauma center, Robert Luckritz, chief of Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services, said at a news conference.
ICE did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
City officials said information about the shooting was preliminary and did not provide many details, including whether the man was the target of an immigration enforcement operation.
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said he was “very angry” about the shooting and demanded that state and local law enforcement officials in Texas be given access to investigate the matter “as a clear-eyed third party.”
Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said no arrests happened at the scene.
Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), who represents Austin, said at the news conference that it is “awful that this horror has come to our doorstep.”
“As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law,” he said in a post on social media.
Sunday’s shooting came amid a growing backlash to the Trump administration’s nationwide crackdown on immigration enforcement, which has been marked by the fatal ICE shootings in Minneapolis in January of U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renée Good.
In July, an immigration officer fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who authorities have said lacked legal status to be in the country, during a traffic stop in Houston.
Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian national, was shot in Maine by a federal immigration official during a traffic stop. The official later said he was “fearing for public safety.”
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