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Politics● ElevatedSep 22 · Sep 22, 2026, 6:17 AM

Man shot by ICE in Texas says bullet still inside him

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · North America

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. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, told reporters he was delivering an order for DoorDash on Sunday when his vehicle was rammed by an ICE agent and he was shot. “I’m in a lot of pain because the shot fractured my clavicle and at the hospital where they took me they couldn’t remove the bullet because it’s close to the spinal cord … I’m not doing very...

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