奥斯汀:ICE 枪击案送餐司机被联邦大陪审团起诉 被控以车辆为武器袭击联邦官员

位于德克萨斯州特拉维斯县的奥斯汀,联邦大陪审团10月20日起诉送餐司机 Wilber Rafael Garces Perez。他上月在一次移民执法行动中被美国移民与海关执法局(ICE)探员开枪击中背部。
根据10月20日提交的法庭文件,28岁的委内瑞拉籍 DoorDash 送餐司机 Garces Perez 被控一项袭击、抗拒、妨碍联邦官员罪。起诉书指控他在干扰两名联邦官员执行公务时,将机动车辆用作致命和危险武器。若罪名成立,他最高面临20年联邦监禁。他目前被联邦羁押,一名法官此前已拒绝其保释。
事件发生在9月20日。刑事起诉书称,ICE 探员当日拦停了正在送餐的 Garces Perez,其名下有一项最终递解令。检方指控,他驾车离开时驾驶侧后视镜撞到一名探员,执法人员随后展开约8分钟追逐,最终在 Research Boulevard 与 Anderson Square 附近,Garces Perez 被一名探员开枪击中背部。他的律师团队9月底表示,事发多日后子弹仍留在他背部;辩护方此前称相关指控是『报复』,并认为执法记录仪画面没有完整记录他驾车离开的关键瞬间。Garces Perez 方面则表示,他当时想先把车停好。
奥斯汀警察局对枪击事件本身的调查仍在继续。警察局长 Lisa Davis 此前表示,地方调查人员已多次向联邦方面索取证据,但至今尚未收到联邦方面提供的证据。
起诉书仅为一项正式指控,Garces Perez 在被证明有罪之前被推定为无罪。
(GSM 据 CBS Austin 法庭文件报道及 FOX 7 Austin 报道)
Austin: Delivery Driver Shot by ICE Indicted by Federal Grand Jury, Charged With Using Car as Weapon Against Federal Officers
In Austin, Travis County, Texas, a federal grand jury on October 20 indicted delivery driver Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, who was shot in the back by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer during an immigration enforcement operation last month.
According to court documents filed on October 20, Garces Perez, a 28-year-old Venezuelan national who drives for DoorDash, is charged with one count of assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer. The indictment accuses him of using a motor vehicle as a deadly and dangerous weapon while interfering with two federal officers performing their official duties. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison. He is in federal custody after a judge denied his bond.
The incident took place on September 20. According to the criminal complaint, ICE officers stopped Garces Perez while he was making a delivery; he was subject to a final order of removal. Prosecutors allege that as he drove away, his driver's-side mirror struck an officer, setting off an roughly eight-minute pursuit that ended near Research Boulevard and Anderson Square, where an officer shot him in the back. His legal team said in late September that the bullet was still lodged in his back days after the shooting; the defense has previously called the charges 'retaliation' and argued that body-camera footage did not fully capture the moment he drove away. Garces Perez has maintained that he wanted to park his vehicle first.
The Austin Police Department's separate investigation into the shooting itself is continuing. Police Chief Lisa Davis has said local investigators have made repeated requests for evidence from federal authorities but have not received anything so far.
An indictment is a formal accusation only, and Garces Perez is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
(GSM, based on CBS Austin's reporting on court filings and FOX 7 Austin)
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