After an ICE agent shot a DoorDash deliverista in Minneapolis on Jan. 14, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem quickly offered a variation of her standard falsehood.

She had said the same after the fatal shooting of an unarmed mother of three, Renee Good, a week earlier on Jan. 7. And she would repeat it regarding the killing of Veteran Affairs’ ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Jan. 24.

“Fearing for his life, he fired a defensive shot,” Noem said of the agent.

She told the press that the deliverista incident constituted “an attempted murder of federal law enforcement.”

“Our officer was ambushed and attacked by three individuals who beat him with snow shovels and the handles of brooms,” she added.

That falsehood was more elaborate than others, but received less attention because the person shot in this case, Venezuelan Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, 24, only suffered a wound to his right thigh and survived. He was arrested along with another man who allegedly joined in assaulting the agent after a car chase ended in a struggle outside of his home.

But a bullet hole in the front door corroborates contradictory accounts by two eyewitnesses. They say the agent fired through the door, and Sosa-Celis was struck after he entered the house and could not have constituted a threat. The bullet was later found to have torn through into the apartment.

The bullet was found “between a child’s bed and a crib,” the wounded man’s attorney, Frederick Goetz, told the Daily Beast on Friday.

Goetz said two children, aged 1 and 3, were in the apartment at the time. The older one could be seen in a live video Sosa-Celis and his wife, Indriany Mendoza Camacho, made as they called 911 to report in Spanish that he had been shot “by ICE” when he was inside.

“They shot through the door,” she says in Spanish.

In a subsequent statement, she reported that her husband was not even the man that ICE had been chasing for fleeing a car stop. The agent had, in fact, been........

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