Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced charges Monday against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro for shooting a Venezuelan migrant in January and providing false statements about the incident.
Castro faces four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime. Prosecutors say he fired his service weapon at the front door of a Minneapolis home, striking migrant Jose Sosa-Celis in the leg. The bullet then traveled through a closet and lodged in the wall of a child’s bedroom. Moriarty stated that Castro “was not under any physical threat when he fired his weapon, or even beforehand.” She added that he “was not hit by a shovel or a broom. In fact, he was not hit at all.”
