By Whitney Wild, CNN

(CNN) — An ICE agent is facing several assault charges in connection with a January shooting involving two Venezuelan immigrants in Minnesota, according to Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty.

The federal agent, Christian Castro, has been charged with four counts of second degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime, Moriarty said at a news conference Monday.

CNN has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment.

CNN is working to determine whether Castro has an attorney.

Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, who was shot by a federal agent during the January incident, and his cousin Alfredo A. Aljorna were facing federal charges after the Department of Homeland Security said they had violently attacked an agent, prompting him to fire a defensive shot. But the Justice Department dropped the charges in February, and ICE said two of its agents who made false statements about the incident under oath were placed on administrative leave.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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By Dianne Gallagher, Devon M. Sayers, CNN

(CNN) — Alex Murdaugh has filed a federal lawsuit against the now-former clerk of court whose interference with the jury in his 2023 murder trial prompted the South Carolina Supreme Court last week to overturn his double murder convictions.

The 17-page lawsuit was filed Sunday in US District Court in Charleston, South Carolina. It says Murdaugh, a disbarred attorney who remains charged with the murders of his wife and son, is bringing this legal action “to hold Ms. Hill accountable for her wrongful conduct under color of state law and to recover compensatory and punitive damages as provided by law.”

Last week, the state Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, vacated Murdaugh’s murder convictions and ordered a new trial in the killing of his wife and son in June 2021, saying the “improper” influence of the county clerk, Becky Hill, marred the previous trial.

The lawsuit is filed under a federal civil rights statute that allows someone to sue a government official who is accused of violating their civil rights while acting under the color of state law.

“She deprived Alex of his constitutional rights, deprived him of a fair trial and as a result we have to do it all over again, which no one wants to do,” Jim Griffin, one of Murdaugh’s attorneys, said at a Monday news conference. “The purpose of this lawsuit is to hold Becky Hill accountable for what she did. She has not been held to account, at all, for her conduct.”

He said the lawsuit is also intended “to investigate what she did, which we’ll be able to do through the course of civil litigation.”

In a 5-0 ruling, the court said Hill “placed her fingers on the scales of justice, thereby denying Murdaugh his right to a fair trial by an impartial jury.”

The Supreme Court’s biting opinion is quoted throughout the lawsuit, including the justices describing Hill’s actions during the 2023 double murder trial as engaging in “shocking jury interference” and saying Hill “became a character witness on behalf of the State” and “essentially implored the jurors to find him guilty.”

Hill has never been charged with jury tampering. However, in December 2025, she pleaded guilty to perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct. The charges said she made sealed evidence available to the media, lied under oath about doing so, and used her court position to promote her book about the trial. She was sentenced to three years of probation.

“Plaintiff prays for judgment against Defendant in this matter in a sum sufficient to adequately compensate him for damages suffered, for punitive damages, for reasonable attorney’s fees, for the costs of this action, and for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper,” the lawsuit states. “As a result of Ms. Hill’s actions, Mr. Murdaugh suffered monetary damages of $600,000.”

Griffin added Monday, “Now let me be clear, Alex Murdaugh owes a lot of people a lot of money. None of this money that is recovered will go to him personally.” His legal team said the $600,000 is based on a public number of the receivership for Murdaugh’s defense.

CNN has reached out to Hill’s attorney for comment.

Though the murder convictions have been vacated, Murdaugh remains in prison. He is serving concurrent state and federal sentences of 27 and 40 years, respectively, for stealing millions of dollars from clients and his law firm.

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(CNN) — Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its leaders, a jury in Oakland, California, decided on Monday. A lawsuit he filed was barred by the statute of limitations, the jury found after about 90 minutes of deliberation.

The jury’s ruling will advise Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who will have the final say. But she has indicated that her decision would align with the jury’s.

“I think that there’s a substantial amount of evidence to support the jury’s finding, which is why I was prepared to dismiss on the spot,” she told Musk’s attorney on Monday.

Musk’s case threatened to derail the ChatGPT maker as it planned what could be a blockbuster IPO. The jury’s decision is a win for OpenAI and its founders, Altman and Brockman.

OpenAI’s attorneys argued the company’s mission hasn’t changed, that it’s still run by a non-profit foundation board, and that Musk waited to file the suit until he founded his own competing artificial intelligence company, xAI. The jury agreed, finding that Musk was aware of the behavior discussed in the lawsuit as early as 2021.

“The finding of the jury confirms that what this lawsuit was was a hypocritical attempt to sabotage a competitor,” William Savitt, OpenAI’s attorney, said on Monday. “The fact is that OpenAI is a not-for-profit, mission-driven organization that has been and will continue to be faithful to that mission.”

OpenAI’s attorneys also claimed that Musk’s donations did not come with a commitment to stay a nonprofit and that the Tesla CEO at various points pushed for OpenAI to create a for-profit entity to compete with Google. They also said Musk tried to gain control of the for-profit entity and left the company when he failed to do so.

Musk asked the court to force OpenAI to pay back more than $130 billion to OpenAI’s nonprofit arm, remove Altman and Brockman from their leadership roles and unwind the corporate restructuring that turned OpenAI into one of the world’s most valuable tech companies.

OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever and Shivon Zilis, an executive at Musk’s companies, former OpenAI board member and mother of four of Musk’s children, were among the high-profile witnesses who testified.

Hundreds of pages worth of private emails, text messages and internal meeting notes were submitted as evidence, including Brockman’s personal diaries, and texts between Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussing possibly trying to buy OpenAI together.

The trial revealed Google’s role in OpenAI’s founding as the AI lab sought to surpass what was then considered the leader in the nascent AI race. It also revealed the many fundraising options OpenAI considered to support its computing and infrastructure needs, including cryptocurrency.

Musk’s romantic relationship was also in the spotlight, as Zilis’ testimony revealed the two had been romantically connected far longer than was previously known. Details about how she served as a conduit to Musk about OpenAI after his departure were also revealed in court.

Musk helped