On July 25, 2020, Garrett Foster, a 28-year-old man, was murdered in Austin, Texas, by 30-year old Daniel Perry. Perry had driven into a crowd of protesters during a Black Lives Matter protest following the May 2020 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

May 16, 2024 · Abbott announced the pardon shortly after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles announced a unanimous recommendation that Daniel Perry be pardoned and have his firearms rights restored. Perry had been in state prison on a 25-year sentence since his 2023 conviction in the killing of Garrett Foster, and was released shortly after the pardon, a ...

May 10, 2023 · Daniel Perry, 35, faced between five and 99 years in prison for fatally shooting 28-year-old Air Force veteran Garrett Foster at an Austin, Texas, racial justice rally two months after the...

May 16, 2024 · Daniel Perry, a former US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020, was released from prison Thursday after he was pardoned by Texas Gov....

Daniel Perry was found guilty by a Travis County jury last year in the murder of Garrett Foster and sentenced to 25 years in prison. At the same time,...

Jan 27, 2025 · After a lengthy and contentious hearing Friday, Travis County Court-at-Law Judge Carlos Barrera said he will announce Tuesday whether he will dismiss a deadly conduct charge against Daniel Perry ...

6 days ago · A Travis County judge said he won't dismiss a deadly conduct charge against Daniel Perry, who was pardoned last year by Gov. Greg Abbott after Perry was convicted of murder in the Austin shooting ...

May 16, 2024 · Daniel Perry, an ex-US Army sergeant, was moonlighting as an Uber driver in Austin when he turned on to a street where demonstrators were marching. Garrett Foster, one of the protesters,...

May 16, 2024 · Daniel Perry, a former Army sergeant convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter protester in downtown Austin in 2020, was freed from prison Thursday within an hour of Gov. Greg...

May 11, 2023 · Attorneys for 35-year-old Daniel Perry asked a judge to consider giving their client a 10-year sentence for the murder of Garrett Foster, a U.S. Air Force veteran, citing Perry's lack of criminal history and presenting evidence that he has post-traumatic stress disorder from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.