Residents confront federal agents after a shooting incident in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 14, 2026.
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was charged with four counts of assault in the January shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis, prosecutors said Monday.
ICE agent, Christian Castro, was also charged with false reporting of a crime in connection with the January 14 shooting. Julio Sosa-CelisThe Hennepin County Attorney’s Office Said.
The shooting came a week after US citizen Renee Good was shot by another ICE agent in Minneapolis.
Castro, who is not in custody, is the second federal agent to be criminally charged in connection with his conduct during Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s controversial immigration-enforcement mission in Minneapolis and elsewhere in Minnesota.
In April, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office charged ICE agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. with assault for pointing his gun at the heads of two people in another car on February 5 as they tried to pass them while driving illegally in his unmarked SUV along a highway in Minneapolis.
Federal agents guard a perimeter after a shooting incident by angry residents protesting their presence in the city on January 14, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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ICE said in a Jan. 15 statement that it is continuing Department of Homeland SecurityThe FBI’s website states that Sosa-Celis was shot when he and two other “criminal illegal aliens … violently attacked law enforcement with a shovel and broom handle in an attempt to evade arrest and obstruct law enforcement” during a targeted traffic stop of Sosa-Celis in North Minneapolis.
But video of the incident refuted that claim. And prosecutors later dropped charges against Sosa-Celis and another man in the incident, Alfredo Aljorna, each of whom was charged with assault on a federal officer.
Todd Lyons, then-acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a statement on Feb. 12, “Video evidence revealed what appear to be untrue statements in sworn testimony provided by two separate officers.”
“Both officers have been immediately placed on administrative leave pending the completion of a thorough internal investigation,” Lyons said.
On Monday, in announcing charges against Castro, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said the 52-year-old ICE agent fired his gun “through the front door of a home knowing there were people there who had just run inside.”
“The bullet passed through the door and struck Mr. Sousa-Celis in the leg before it made its final impact on the wall of a child’s room,” the office said.
“He was outside the home and alone in the front yard when he fired his weapon through the front door of the home,” the office said. This allegation was compared to ICE’s claim that the agent shot Sosa-Celis after he “went loose and began striking at the officer with a shovel or broom stick.”
A law enforcement officer leaves the scene as residents protest the shooting of a federal agent during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, on January 14, 2026.
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“Mr. Castro is an ICE agent. But his federal badge does not exempt him from state charges for his criminal conduct in Minnesota,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a statement.
“Mr. Castro fired his weapon through the front door of the home, without any physical threat or pressure, even though he knew there were people who had just run inside,” Moriarty said.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison“No one is above the law, including ICE agents,” the agency said in a statement.
“The state of Minnesota must hold people accountable for violating the law and harming Minnesotans,” Ellison said.
CNBC has requested comment from ICE and its parent agency, DHS.