25-Year-Old Man Charged in Austin Burglary & Shooting Enters Plea Agreement
Austin, MN (KROC-AM News)- There’s been a guilty plea from one of the three men charged in an Austin shooting and burglary case.
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Officers responded to the gunfire on the morning of August 3 in southeast Austin and learned a man had been shot after two masked individuals were seen entering his home.
Court documents say the bullet entered and exited through a small area of the man's back.
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Police later located the suspect vehicle and issued a shelter-in-place order after two of the three occupants fled the vehicle on foot. The fleeing suspects were later captured and placed into custody.
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Austin police identified the suspects who fled as 20-year-old Izaiah Frank Fuentes and 25-year-old Joe Lewis Castaneda. A third suspect, who remained with the vehicle upon initial law enforcement contact, was identified as 26-year-old Alex Matthew Perry.
The charges alleged Fuentes and Castaneda entered the victim’s home. Both alleged home invaders were charged with multiple counts of first-degree burglary, illegal possession of a firearm, and second-degree assault.
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Court records indicate Castaneda has entered a plea agreement that calls for him to admit to the second-degree assault charge in exchange for the dismissal of all other counts.
The agreement also calls for a 60-month prison sentence.
Castaneda was convicted of illegal possession of a firearm in 2024 and was adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile in Texas for second-degree burglary, according to court records. He’s scheduled to appear in court Monday for a plea hearing.
The cases against Fuentes and Perry remain ongoing.
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