A Texas grand jury indicted ICE officer Mario Alberto Morales Friday on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, alleging he drove his vehicle into Miguel Parra Hernandez , who was on foot, earlier this month.
The indictment of Morales, 33, was handed up by a Harris County grand jury Friday morning, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said.
The indictment is the first of an immigration agent in Texas. ICE enforcement officer Christian Castro was charged in the January shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis in Minnesota.
Teare said the charge is a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years.
“The evidence that we have in this case is as clear as any that I’ve ever prosecuted or investigated,” Teare said in a news conference Friday.
Teare played newly released body camera video that he said belonged to Morales. It was edited to play alongside security camera video from a local business that had been made public soon after the collision.…