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ICE探员被控撒谎,而非被控开枪
一名ICE官员因就明尼阿波利斯枪击事件撒谎而遭联邦起诉,而非因隔门向有儿童在内的住宅开枪。
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子弹穿门而入时,胡里奥·塞萨尔·索萨-塞利斯刚从前门退回屋内。子弹贯穿他的大腿,又穿过一个壁橱,最终嵌入一间儿童卧室的墙壁。411当晚,明尼阿波利斯北区这栋双拼住宅内有四名成年人和两名幼童。411他幸存了下来,但这颗子弹的轨迹——肉体、壁橱、儿童房墙壁——如今已成为此案无可争议的物证核心;而开枪者对事发经过的几乎所有说法都已站不住脚。34
关键事实
开枪者是52岁的克里斯蒂安·卡斯特罗,他是驻格兰德河谷的ICE遣返官员,被派往明尼阿波利斯参加“都市激增行动”。24该行动是一场大规模移民执法行动,于2025年12月在双城地区展开,出动数千名探员,逮捕约4,000人。22026年1月14日,卡斯特罗追捕阿尔弗雷多·亚历杭德罗·阿尔霍尔纳至该双拼住宅后,开枪击中阿尔霍尔纳的室友、委内瑞拉籍的索萨-塞利斯的大腿。423事后,联邦探员在该街区使用了化学弹药,包括一个带着幼童的家庭在内的旁观者受到影响,现场抗议持续了数小时。12
视频显示的真相
2026年9月4日解封的联邦案件指控卡斯特罗向联邦调查局调查人员作出六项虚假陈述,而非指控枪击行为本身。25这六项罪名对应他对当晚的描述:他遭到三名男子伏击,对方用扫帚和雪铲袭击他,扭打持续约三分钟;他在扭打中倒地开枪;他一边用左手抵挡击打,一边用右手去拔枪。4市交通摄像头视频和物证推翻了上述全部说法。34
案件进展
视频中可见的冲突持续约11至12秒,而非三分钟。34索萨-塞利斯在接触前就扔下了一把塑料雪铲,雪铲从未被用作武器。4没有人像他所说的那样用扫帚击打他,也没有人像他所说的那样挥舞扫帚和雪铲。3他隔着正在关上的门开枪时是站着的,而屋内有儿童。411这是起诉书本身的措辞,自卫说法因此全盘瓦解。3
撒谎罪指控的背后,是一个更尖锐的决定。明尼苏达州联邦检察官办公室的职业检察官曾准备就枪击本身提起民权指控——即“以官方名义剥夺权利”罪,与起诉杀害乔治·弗洛伊德的警察时所用的法规相同。12负责此案的助理联邦检察官马修·埃文斯告诉受害者的律师,司法部总部和联邦检察官指示只推进虚假陈述指控。12司法部领导层阻止该办公室提起与枪击相关的民权案件,而没有让大陪审团进行审议。12
我以最强烈的措辞提出反对,并竭尽全力抗争。但这还不够。
埃文斯在写给索萨-塞利斯等人律师的信中表达了这一反对意见,在ProPublica公开这封电子邮件后,他遭到解雇。1213他仍因涉嫌泄密接受司法部调查,据部分报道,调查还涉及可能妨碍大陪审团调查,目前尚无公开报道的结果。12除埃文斯本人的说法外,司法部阻止民权指控的内部原因尚无公开的独立证实。12
由于华盛顿方面拒绝就开枪行为提起指控,就卡斯特罗开枪一事对其提起指控的案件由州一级负责。34亨内平县检察官玛丽·莫里亚蒂在明尼苏达州总检察长基思·埃利森的陪同下,于2026年5月18日宣布提起四项持危险武器二级伤害罪和一项谎报犯罪罪。822四项伤害罪分别对应门内的四名成年人。8州检方的论点是:卡斯特罗独自站在前院,未受任何人身威胁,却在明知有人刚跑进屋内的情况下隔着关闭的前门开枪,而他的联邦警徽并不赋予他任何豁免权。1122
未知
- 司法部对被解雇检察官马修·埃文斯的调查尚无公开结果。
- 在卡斯特罗留在得克萨斯州期间,陷入停滞的明尼苏达州枪击案能否进入审判。
后续
- 他被要求于9月18日在明尼阿波利斯就联邦虚假陈述案出庭。
该州级案件仍在审理中,但实际上已陷入停滞。24得克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特拒绝引渡卡斯特罗,得克萨斯州一名联邦法官也拒绝强制引渡,因此就枪击本身对他提出指控的最有力案件,在他留在得克萨斯州期间被搁置。12移民和海关执法局(ICE)与国土安全部(DHS)已让卡斯特罗和另一名官员停职。4ICE代理局长托德·莱昂斯表示,视频显示两名官员的宣誓证词似乎包含不实陈述,称宣誓后撒谎是严重的联邦罪行,并确认卡斯特罗是这两人之一。4
卡斯特罗已自首,于9月4日在得克萨斯州麦卡伦的联邦法院出庭,作无罪答辩,并以75,000美元无担保保释金获释,同时佩戴GPS定位器。916检方未要求羁押他,他被要求于9月18日在明尼阿波利斯出庭。691月14日的枪击事件是至少五起“都市激增”行动事件之一,这些事件中官方最初的说法后来均被视频推翻,其中包括1月7日美国公民蕾妮·古德和1月24日美国公民亚历克斯·普雷蒂遭枪杀的事件。21卡斯特罗是首名因在该行动期间的行为遭联邦起诉的联邦移民官员,也是总体上第二名被起诉的联邦探员;此前亨内平县曾以州伤害罪起诉ICE探员小格雷戈里·唐奈·摩根,因其持枪指向驾车者。12政府以撒谎罪起诉卡斯特罗,却解雇了那位认为枪击本身即构成联邦犯罪的检察官,而这一选择正是接下来的庭审日期无法回避的问题。1213
播出原貌 20 行
- An ICE agent was indicted for lying about a shooting he was never charged with. The Justice Department charged him with false statements, and the prosecutor who pushed for a shooting charge was fired. The question now is where federal accountability for the shooting itself lands.
- The agent is Christian Castro, a 52-year-old deportation officer based in the Rio Grande Valley, deployed to Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, the administration's immigration enforcement campaign that began in December 2025 with thousands of agents and roughly 4,000 arrests.
- The January fourteenth shooting sat between two fatal incidents in the surge. State charges came in May, but the federal case never advanced the shooting itself — it landed only on the lies.
- On the evening of January 14, 2026, after a pursuit of Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna to a north Minneapolis duplex, Castro shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the thigh. The bullet passed through his thigh, through a closet, and lodged in the wall of a child's bedroom. Four adults and two young children were inside.
- The unsealed federal indictment charges Castro only with making false statements to FBI investigators. The six counts track his account of that night. He said he was ambushed by three men attacking him with a broom and a snow shovel in a struggle lasting about three minutes, and that he fired from the ground while tussling.
- City traffic-camera video and physical evidence contradicted all of it. The visible confrontation lasted eleven to twelve seconds. Sosa-Celis dropped a plastic snow shovel before contact, and the shovel was never used as a weapon. No one struck Castro with a broom.
- He was standing when he fired through the closing door. The indictment states the contradiction in its own words.
- Before the lies, career prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota had prepared to bring civil-rights charges against Castro — deprivation of rights under color of law, the same statute used in the prosecutions of the officers who killed George Floyd.
- But leadership directed that only the false-statements charges proceed. A prosecutor handling the matter objected in the strongest possible terms, but it wasn't enough. That objection cost him his job after his email became public.
- He remains under a Justice Department investigation for alleged leaking and possible grand jury obstruction. No resolution has been reported.
- Because the federal government declined to charge the shooting, the case for firing the gun runs through the state. State charges were announced on May 18, 2026: four counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of falsely reporting a crime. The four assault counts correspond to the four adults just inside the door.
- The state's theory is that Castro, standing alone in the front yard and under no physical threat, fired through the closed front door knowing people had just run inside. Under the state's theory, his federal badge conferred no immunity.
- The federal government charged the lies; the state charged the shooting. The state case is the one that names the gun, and it's stalled by Texas's refusal to send him across the border.
- Texas refused to extradite Castro, and a federal judge in Texas declined to compel it. So the strongest case charging him for the shooting is stuck in Texas while he is in Texas.
- ICE and DHS placed Castro and a second officer on administrative leave. Video showed that sworn testimony by two officers appears to have made untruthful statements. Castro was identified as one of the two. Lying under oath is a serious federal offense.
- Castro turned himself in, appeared in federal court in McAllen, Texas on September 4, entered a not-guilty plea, and was released on a $75,000 unsecured bond with a GPS monitor and an order to appear in Minneapolis on September 18. Prosecutors did not seek to hold him.
- The January 14 shooting is one flashpoint in a surge that produced at least five incidents in which initial official accounts were later contradicted by video, including the fatal shootings of U.S. citizens Renee Good on January 7 and Alex Pretti on January 24.
- After the January 14 shooting in north Minneapolis, federal agents used chemical munitions in the neighborhood. Bystanders and a family with small children were affected, and protests at the scene lasted for hours, adding to the unrest that followed Good's killing.
- Castro is the first federal immigration officer federally prosecuted for conduct during the surge. He is the second federal agent charged overall; Hennepin County earlier charged ICE agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. with state assault for pointing a gun at motorists.
- So the unresolved question stands. The government charged Castro for lying and fired the prosecutor who said the shooting itself was a federal crime. The state case that does charge him for the shooting is stalled because Texas refused to send him to Minnesota. His next federal appearance is September 18 in Minneapolis.
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