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Federal law enforcement officers at the site of the shooting of Julio C\u00e9sar Sosa-Celis in North Minneapolis on January 14, 2026.<\/span>Steven Garcia\/NurPhoto\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n An ICE officer<\/span> who allegedly shot a Minneapolis man when the Trump administration sent thousands of officers to Minnesota and lied about the series of events that led to the shooting was charged on Monday.<\/p>\n Christian J. Castro, the officer, is charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime in the shooting of Julio C\u00e9sar Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan immigrant, on January 14, just one week after the killing of Ren\u00e9e Good<\/a>.<\/p>\n A federal agent shot Sosa-Celis in the thigh after he and another officer pursued Sosa-Celis\u2019 roommate, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna. Hennepin County attorney Mary Moriarty said both Sosa-Celis and Aljorna reside in the US legally. The two men\u2019s attorneys said that neither had violent criminal records<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Federal authorities initially claimed that the two men assaulted a federal officer. The next day, former Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem<\/a> called the event\u2014without evidence\u2014<\/strong>an act of \u201cattempted murder,\u201d and said the men beat the officer \u201cwith snow shovels and the handles of brooms.\u201d Then a widely-circulated video showed what really happened, contradicting the federal government\u2019s statements, and the federal government changed their story.<\/p>\n The video shows Aljorna going to his home after crashing his car as Castro chases him. Sosa-Celis was outside and he, Aljorna, and Castro tussled but no weapons were used. The two men then run into their home when the officer shoots at them.\u00a0 <\/p>\n