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Minnesota prosecutors announced on Monday they obtained a trove of evidence from the federal government in the killings of two U.S. citizens — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — and the shooting of Venezuelan national Julio Sosa-Celis by federal immigration agents during Operation Metro Surge.

The evidence includes body camera footage, officer statements and the Honda Pilot in which Good was killed, all of which the federal government had previously refused to turn over in a major breach of the tradition of cooperation between state and federal law enforcement agencies.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the evidence allows her office to fully evaluate whether criminal charges are warranted in the January killings in Minneapolis.

“We will be thorough. We will be complete, and we will make a decision,” Moriarty said.

Moriarty and Attorney General Keith Ellison have been weighing criminal charges against the officers across the two killings but say they’d been hindered until now by the federal government’s obstruction.

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Moriarty’s office has charged Christian Castro in the shooting of Sosa-Celis with four felony counts of second-degree assault as well as a misdemeanor charge of falsely reporting a crime in the shooting of Sosa-Celis. He was arrested in Texas and remains in custody in a jail in Cameron County.

“I want to thank our federal partners for their willingness to consider changing course to share evidence and promote public trust,” Moriarty said during a Monday news conference. “The collective effort from our staff, the Attorney General’s Office, and the (Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension) to make this happen is........

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