Jonathan Goldstein
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Coming up, after being shot in the leg by an ICE agent, Julio Cesar Sosa Celis became national news.
Since then, his family has been forced into hiding.
One week after Rene Good and a week and three days before Alex Preddy, another person in Minneapolis was shot by ICE agents.
It wasn't fatal, and the incident didn't get as much media attention.
He was Venezuelan, and he had no criminal record.
There are different accounts of what happened that night, but in a nutshell, the federal government claims Julio had been targeted for arrest, that he fled during a car chase, and that when he was caught, he was shot by an ICE agent in self-defense.
Their investigation determined that Ice wasn't looking for Julio at all and that he was not a part of any chase.
Julio's roommate was mistaken for someone else while driving, and he got into a car chase with Ice.
The roommate led the agents back to the house he and Julio shared with their partners and their babies.
Eyewitnesses say the shooting wasn't self-defense, that the men were fleeing into the house when shots were fired.
At the end of the night, Julio and his partner, Indriani, were arrested.
But the story I want to tell isn't about the shooting itself.
I want to tell the story of the family Julio and Indriani left behind, what their life was like before that night, and what it's been like ever since.
So far, Julio and Indriani's family in Minnesota haven't spoken with any journalists.
But it turns out I have a connection to Indriani's mom, Yamilis.
It was a very tenuous connection, through friends of friends.