Ex-ICE agent charged over shooting is freed by Texas authorities

Christian Castro, accused of carrying out nonfatal shooting in Minnesota, walks free due to extradition lapse. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer charged with shooting a Venezuelan man and allegedly lying about it during an immigration raid in Minneapolis was released from a Texas jail a day after a federal judge refused to order his return to the US state of Minnesota. The former ICE agent, Christian Castro, had been detained in a county jail in Texas since May, charged in connection with the nonfatal shooting of 24-year-old Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis and hitting him in the leg when firing through the front door of his home during an immigration crackdown in Minnesota on January 14. The immigration sweep was part of a mass deportation effort under United States President Donald Trump. Prosecutors said Castro wrongfully accused Sosa-Celis and another man of assaulting an ICE officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel.

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