ICE agent charged with assault for hitting fleeing man with car in Houston will turn himself in, attorney says
Summary
ICE officer Mario Alberto Morales will turn himself in Monday after a grand jury indicted him on a felony aggravated-assault charge in the Oct. 10 vehicle collision in Houston. Miguel Parra Hernandez suffered a broken leg; video and witness accounts describe the incident, while Morales has said he did not hit him intentionally.Key Facts
- A grand jury indicted Morales on Friday for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
- Morales’s attorney, David Lindenmuth, said Morales plans to surrender at a courthouse Monday.
- Prosecutors say Morales struck Parra Hernandez, a 48-year-old construction worker, with an unmarked SUV while pursuing him through a parking lot.
- Parra Hernandez broke his leg and is recovering at a rehabilitation facility while in federal custody, according to Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare.
- Surveillance footage shows Morales’s vehicle crossing a median and hitting Parra Hernandez as he ran away; body-camera footage shows Morales saying, “I was coming in, and I hit him with the car.”
- A sheriff’s report says Morales told deputies he did not brake before the collision but did not intend to hit Parra Hernandez.
- Parra Hernandez told deputies he fled after Morales began pulling on a mask and said Morales “threw the car” at him.
- ICE said its operation targeted Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, but his daughter told an immigrants’ rights group that he had been dead for nearly a decade.
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