A federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent reportedly shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas, early Sunday afternoon during the latest instance of government violence allegedly tied to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

The unidentified victim was hit once in the torso and rushed to a local trauma center, where he’s in serious but stable condition, Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz said during a news conference.

Officials said city police officers weren’t present during the shooting, which took place near a highway overpass in the 800 block of Anderson Square around 12:55 p.m. local time.

Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said she was told the shooter “is an ICE agent,” and Mayor Kirk Watson said he was “very angry about this.”

“Part of what makes me angry about this, part of what makes me so unhappy about it, is that we live in a time where there’s a politics of fear, where people are trying to create fear,” Watson said.

Watson said there was “no reason for us to be surprised” by the shooting, given “the nature of ICE and how it’s doing its business” in other cities. He also called for an independent, third-party investigation, saying it “would not be appropriate” to let ICE conduct the probe.

Spokespersons for ICE and the Department of Homeland Security didn’t immediately return inquiries from The Independent.

Photographs taken at the scene show a dark blue Toyota Corolla with damage along its passenger side and what appear to be two bullet holes in the rear window.

The police chief said she couldn’t confirm a report that the car was sideswiped and that the ICE agent fired multiple shots through its rear windshield.

“That’s not what I’m hearing. I’m hearing that it was out on foot…there was a small foot pursuit,” she said, adding that “this is all very preliminary” and that she hadn’t been briefed by federal officials.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, whose district covers the shooting scene, said, “I think the obvious should be said, that there is a reason that people in Austin and across the country are deeply suspicious of anything that ICE has said.”

“People in the community don’t know all the facts, but people are hurting and upset because they see how ICE has shot and, in some cases, even killed people with impunity in other parts of the country,” he said.

Casar also called on ICE to end what he called its “surge of officers here” and to instead “be focused on transparently working on issues of crime, not what they’ve been doing consistently here in Austin before this event.”

This is a developing story. More follows…