Eight days after shooting Wilber Garces Perez in the back, the US government has charged him with one count of assaulting, resisting, interfering with and impeding a federal officer. The government denied him bond during a hearing on Wednesday.

A federal judge on Wednesday denied bond to Wilber Garces Perez, the 28-year-old delivery worker shot in the back by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thug in Austin, Texas on September 20. According to his attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, Garces Perez remains imprisoned with a bullet lodged near his spine and without the surgery specialists have recommended.