A criminal investigation has been launched after a top Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official admitted that two of its agents apparently lied under oath about an incident where one of them shot a Venezuelan man.
As with other recent shootings by ICE agents of civilians like Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis, the January 14 incident which resulted in Julio Sosa-Celis being shot in the leg was initially framed as 'attempted murder' by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
Homeland Security had claimed that Sosa-Celis had been driving a vehicle with cousin Alfredo Aljorna and another man, before all three assaulted one of the immigration officers who shot the Venezuelan national.
But a statement from the Aljorna's lawyer claimed Sosa-Celis was injured when Aljorna was tailed home by immigration agents. After fleeing inside his cousin's property, the agents are alleged to have shot through the door and hit Sosa-Celis in the leg.
Court documents stemming from the January 14 incident show that the two immigration officers claimed to have been set upon by Sosa-Celis and his associates, who they said were wielding a broom handle and a snow shovel.
ICE's Acting Director Todd Lyons has now admitted that the agents who filed the report made 'untruthful statements' about what took place before they opened fire on Sosa-Celis.
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