Man shot in leg by ICE in Minneapolis did not attack officer, women say
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Two women who were in the north Minneapolis home where a man was shot and wounded by an ICE agent last week are sharing what they witnessed that night — and it’s different from the initial reports provided by federal authorities.
Indriany Syrisnoy Mendoza-Camacho is married to Julio Sosa-Celis, the man who was wounded on Jan. 14. Valentina De Los Angeles Tiapa Moreno is the partner of Alfredo Aljorna, the man who reportedly was being chased by the federal agent before the shooting.
In an account posted to social media on the night of the shooting, the Department of Homeland Security said that the shooting happened after a vehicle and foot pursuit. DHS alleged that the agent caught up to the man being sought, but then was attacked by two other men wielding a snow shovel and a broom handle — and that during the struggle, the agent shot and wounded “the initial subject” — the man who reportedly led agents on the chase. DHS said the man was wounded, and then ran inside an apartment.
But in the petitions, the two women tell a different story. They say Aljorna was the one being chased, but Sosa-Celis was the one who was shot in the leg. They dispute that either man wielded a weapon, and say Sosa-Celis was shot through the door of the apartment as he tried to run away.
“Seeing Alfredo in danger, Julio intervened and attempted to separate Alfredo from the man beating him and choking him — pulling on Alfredo towards the house to get him away from his attacker,” reads one of the petitions. “At no time did either Alfredo or Julio use or threaten to use a weapon, nor wield any object that could be deployed as a weapon, against the man assaulting Alfredo.”
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