ICE agent charged with four counts of assault in Minnesota shooting of Venezuelan immigrant - BERITAJA

An ICE supplier who changeable a Venezuelan man and is accused of lying about the incident was charged pinch battle and falsely reporting a crime successful Minnesota connected Monday.

ICE supplier Christian Castro was charged pinch 4 counts of battle successful the 2nd grade and 1 count of falsely reporting a crime related to the January shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis during an attempted migration arrest, Minnesota prosecutors announced connected Monday afternoon.

The charges against Castro impeach him of shooting done the beforehand doorway of a residence “with the intent to origin fearfulness of contiguous bodily harm aliases decease to the 4 adults who were conscionable wrong the door,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said astatine a news convention Monday. There is simply a nationwide warrant for his arrest, she said.

“Mr. Castro fired his work limb astatine the beforehand doorway of the home, knowing location were group who had conscionable tally wrong that presented perfectly nary threat to him aliases anyone else,” Moriarty said. “The slug punched done the beforehand doorway and struck Mr. Sosa-Celis’ limb earlier walking done a closet and lodging successful the wall of a child’s bedroom.”

The Department of Homeland Security did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected the charges.

On the nighttime of January 14, ICE agents confronted Sosa-Celis and different Venezuelan man, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna, successful an migration enforcement action adjacent their home, according to authorities. Sosa-Celis was changeable successful the limb during the incident, authorities said.

Moriarty said Tuesday that some men were successful Minnesota “lawfully” and “this was a lawsuit of mistaken identity.”

Law enforcement officers guidelines amid tear state astatine the segment of a reported shooting successful Minneapolis connected Jan. 14.Adam Gray / AP File

The Department of Homeland Security said successful its original connection that the shooting occurred aft Sosa-Celis and Aljorna allegedly attacked the serviceman pinch a shovel and broom. The 2 men were charged pinch assaulting the officer, but each charges were later dismissed pinch prejudice aft Minnesota prosecutors said caller grounds was “materially inconsistent pinch the allegations” against the men.

Video footage released of the incident successful February and April appeared to contradict the agency’s account, showing 1 man opinionated pinch a shovel adjacent a location earlier dropping it while different man runs towards the residence empty-handed. An serviceman past tackles 1 of the men.

In mid-February, then-DHS acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said a reappraisal of video grounds revealed that 2 officers appeared “to person made untruthful statements” successful sworn testimony.

Both officers were placed connected administrative time off pending the completion of an investigation, Lyons said successful the statement. He added that “a associated reappraisal by ICE and the Department of Justice (DOJ) of video grounds has revealed that sworn grounds provided by 2 abstracted officers appears to person made untruthful statements.

“Lying nether oath is simply a superior national offense,” Lyons said astatine the time. “Upon conclusion of the investigation, the officers whitethorn look termination of employment, arsenic good arsenic imaginable criminal prosecution,” he said.

Moriarty said astatine the Tuesday news convention that Castro “was not nether immoderate beingness threat erstwhile he fired his weapon, aliases moreover beforehand.”

“He was not deed by a shovel aliases a broom. In fact, he was not deed astatine all,” she said.