A federal agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and wounded a man on Sunday in Austin, Texas, city authorities confirmed.

The adult man suffered a gunshot wound to the torso and was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center, where he is in stable but serious condition, according to Austin Mayor Kirk Watson.

Watson said police were not involved in the shooting incident involving an ICE agent, but local police investigators were at the scene and controlling traffic in the area.

The shooting is the latest incident in which federal agents have fired at a person during the Trump administration's campaign to drastically increase immigration enforcement operations across the country.

It occurred shortly before 1 p.m. in north Austin, Robert Luckritz, chief of the city's emergency medical services, said at a press conference Sunday afternoon. The incident apparently involved a foot chase with the ICE agent, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis added.

KVUE, a CNN affiliate, recorded the aftermath of the incident and showed a damaged blue sedan near Anderson Square and U.S. Route 183.

Watson said questions remain and expressed skepticism about ICE's ability to conduct an independent investigation. He added that the Texas Rangers and the Austin Police Department will take part in the investigation.

Watson said he was "very angry" and "extremely displeased" that ICE shot a person.

"While I am displeased and angry about this, I am not at all surprised," he said. "It has happened in other cities because of the nature of ICE and the way ICE currently operates."

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Although Texas is a state governed by Republicans, its capital, Austin, has a marked Democratic leaning.

Democratic Congressman Greg Casar, who represents Austin, said in a social media post that he will request an independent investigation into the shooting.

Casar told journalists that the city has seen an increase in ICE's presence in Austin, particularly in the central-north area of the city, where Sunday's shooting occurred.

"If ICE wants to keep people safe, if the federal government wants to keep people safe, ICE should not have this deployment of agents here," Casar said. The agency, he said, "should focus on working transparently on crime issues, not on what it has been systematically doing here in Austin before this incident."