MINNEAPOLIS _ Late Thursday, state officials identified the officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop as Jeronimo Yanez. He is a four-year member of the St. Anthony Police Department.
_Yanez lives in South St. Paul with his wife and infant child.
_He graduated from Minnesota State University in Mankato in 2010 with a degree in law enforcement.
_He is 28 years old.
_Yanez was sworn into the St. Anthony Police Department in November 2011.
_He has no criminal history, aside from a couple traffic tickets. He has no history of civil lawsuits.
_The St. Anthony Police Department has 23 officers, eight of whom are paid for through policing contracts with the cities of Lauderdale and Falcon Heights, where Castile was shot. That suburban city of 5,300 has contracted with neighboring St. Anthony for police services for at least a decade.
_According to its annual report, the department issued more than 4,300 citations in Falcon Heights and Lauderdale in 2015.
_The department's interim chief said Wednesday night there hadn't been an officer-involved shooting in the department for 30 years.
_St. Anthony does have squad car dashboard cameras, but it's unclear whether they captured Wednesday's shooting.
_Yanez, along with his partner Joseph Kauser, have been put on standard administrative leave during the investigation.
