Minnesota prosecutors announced Monday that they have obtained key evidence in their ongoing investigations into the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during protests against a federal immigration crackdown in the state earlier this year. “Through the cooperation of our federal partners, we have obtained the hard drives of evidence previously withheld in
Minnesota prosecutors announced Monday that they have obtained key evidence in their ongoing investigations into the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during protests against a federal immigration crackdown in the state earlier this year.
“Through the cooperation of our federal partners, we have obtained the hard drives of evidence previously withheld in the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis,” said Hennepin County Prosecutor Mary Moriarty. “We have also obtained some of the physical evidence that had previously been withheld, including Renee Good’s car.”
Federal officials had previously withheld statements, police body camera videos and other evidence about the killings.
He said state and local investigators also now have Good’s damaged car in their possession.
Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was shot and killed in her car while leaving a protest against immigration authorities in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents moved through the region.
Her death and that of Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse shot and killed by federal agents just weeks later during a Jan. 24 protest, sparked nationwide outrage and calls to rein in immigration enforcement.
“The wonderful thing now is that we have all the evidence,” Moriarty said.
Investigators are reviewing all the evidence, including hard drives with statements, hours of video recorded by body cameras and the physical car Good was driving, Moriarty said.
“We need transparency. We need cooperation. Our community needs it,” he said. “Our democracy requires it.”
In late June, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Moriarty asked a federal judge to delay the deadlines for their lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice because they said they were in the midst of recently restarted “ongoing discussions” with the FBI over information sharing.
Those ongoing discussions with the FBI over information sharing are likely to affect Minnesota’s request for a summary judgment in the case, Ellison and Moriarty wrote in their motion to the court.
Lawyers representing the federal government signed the motion.
Ellison said he remains “deeply concerned that the federal government spent more than half a year trying to hide this evidence from state investigators.”
“It should never have taken this long for Minnesota law enforcement to gain access to testing from the federal government,” he said in a statement. “I hope this is the beginning of a major course correction by the federal government.”
There have been at least eight deaths since the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign began last year, but no one has been charged in connection with them.
A Minneapolis resident, Julio César Sosa-Celis, was also shot and wounded in his home while ICE agents pursued another man.
In May, Christian Castro, an ICE agent, was arrested and charged with assault and falsely reporting a crime in connection with that non-fatal Jan. 14 shooting.
Prosecutors say Castro, 52, fired through the front door of a home and shot Sosa-Celis in the thigh.
In April, Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., another ICE agent, was accused of pointing his gun at a motorist and a passenger on a Minneapolis highway.
Prosecutors said at the time it was the first criminal case against a federal officer involved in Minnesota’s immigration crackdown.
On Monday, ICE was involved in the fatal shooting in Maine, according to state House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, a Democrat.
Details of what happened in Biddeford, a coastal city of about 23,000 people located about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of Portland, remain unclear.
Last week, an ICE agent in Houston shot and killed a Mexican citizen who had lived in the United States for decades while the builder was taking his construction crew to a job site.
The federal Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, acknowledged that agents were looking for another person when they tried to stop Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s vehicle. The agency maintains that Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle, causing an officer to open fire in self-defense.
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