Venezuelan man shot and wounded by ICE agent in Texas is charged with assaulting an officer

Federal prosecutors in Texas announced charges Tuesday against Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez , a Venezuelan delivery driver shot and seriously wounded by an ICE officer in Austin this month. The charges came a day before he was set to appear in court to challenge the legality of his immigration detention.
Garcés Pérez, 28, was charged with one count of assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer, according to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
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