Minnesota prosecutors on Monday charged ICE agent Christian J. Castro with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime in connection with the January shooting of Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-Celis during a federal immigration operation in Minneapolis, issuing a nationwide warrant for Castro's arrest after investigators rejected the government's earlier claim that the agent fired a "defensive shot."
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Castro fired through the front door of a home "knowing there were people who had just run inside that presented absolutely no threat to him or anyone else." According to prosecutors, the bullet struck Sosa-Celis in the leg before traveling through a closet wall and lodging in a child's bedroom.
