An ICE officer has been charged after striking a man with a car in Houston
Summary
Harris County prosecutors charged ICE officer Mario Alberto Morales with aggravated assault, alleging he intentionally hit Miguel Parra Hernandez with an unmarked car in Houston on Oct. 10. Morales was not in custody when prosecutors announced the charge, and ICE disputes the allegation and the county’s authority to investigate him.Key Facts
- Prosecutors charged Morales with second-degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
- Prosecutors say Parra Hernandez, 48, was running away when Morales’s vehicle struck him.
- Parra Hernandez was later taken into custody with a broken leg.
- District Attorney Sean Teare said surveillance video contradicts ICE’s account of the incident.
- Body-camera footage played by Teare shows Morales saying, “I was coming in and I hit him with the car.”
- Morales was not in custody Friday, and Teare said a warrant would be issued for his arrest.
- ICE called the charge a political stunt and said the allegations that Morales intentionally hit Parra Hernandez were false.
- ICE said the operation targeted Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, but a Houston immigrant rights group said his daughter reported that he died in 2017.
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