ICE agent charged with Minnesota shooting released from jail in Texas

Christian Castro, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, was released from a Texas jail on Thursday. He had been charged with shooting a man and lying about it during an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. According to The Guardian US, Castro was released at dawn from a detention center in Brownsville, Texas, after a judge refused to order his return to Minnesota.

Castro was accused of shooting a man during Operation Metro Surge. The details of the shooting and the circumstances surrounding Castro's release are not fully elaborated in the reports.

Castro's release was granted after a judge's ruling, as reported by multiple outlets including PBS NewsHour, CBS News, and Winnipeg Free Press, which all carried similar accounts of the event.

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