ICE officer who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis has served decades in military and law enforcement

federal agent shot and killed the driver An Iraq War veteran living in Minneapolis has been with the Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly two decades, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

Jonathan Ross, Shot and killed Renee Good He has been a deportation officer with ICE since 2015, records show. He was seriously injured last summer when he was dragged by the vehicle of the escaping suspect and shot with a stun gun.

Federal authorities have not released the name of the officer who shot Good, a 37-year-old mother who was shot while trying to escape from federal agents. But Interior Secretary Kristi Noem said the agent who shot Good was dragged by a vehicle last June, and a department spokeswoman confirmed Noem was referring to the Bloomington, Minnesota, case in which the injured officer was identified in documents as Ross.

Noem and other Trump administration officials defended the agent as a seasoned law enforcement professional who followed his training and shot Good after believing he was trying to run her or other agents over with his vehicle. The video raised questions The FBI is investigating the use of deadly force to determine whether the attack was in self-defense. Some protesters are demanding that Ross is facing criminal charges and Minnesota officials also want to investigate.

Attempts to reach Ross, 43, through the phone numbers and email addresses associated with him did not yield immediate results.

Here are some things you need to know about him:

Experienced military and law enforcement officer

During courtroom testimony last month, Ross said he served in Iraq with the Indiana National Guard from 2004 to 2005. Ross said he served as a machine gunner on a gun truck as part of a combat patrol team.

He returned from Iraq in 2005, went to college and joined the Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas, in 2007, he said. He worked there until 2015, serving as a field intelligence agent collecting and analyzing information about cartels, drugs and human trafficking.

Ross said he has served as a deportation officer in Minnesota since joining ICE in 2015. He testified last month that he was deployed on fugitive sting operations to detain “high-value targets” in the ICE district, which includes Minneapolis. He also said he was a team leader on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.

“So I develop the targets, put together a target package, do surveillance, and then develop a plan to execute the arrest warrant,” he said.

Ross said he is also a firearms instructor, active shooter instructor, field intelligence officer and SWAT team member. He said he attended the Border Patrol academy in New Mexico and learned to speak Spanish there.

He was seriously injured last June

Ross was the leader of a team of agents who went to arrest a man traveling to the United States illegally in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington on June 17. According to court records, the agents gathered outside the home of a man named Roberto Munoz-Guatemala, who was leaving in his car.

FBI agents activated emergency sirens and lights and instructed him to pull over, but he did not do so. Ross pulled his vehicle diagonally in front of Munoz-Guatemala to force him to stop.

Ross and an FBI agent identified themselves as police and pointed guns at Munoz-Guatemala, who raised his hands. Ross then approached Munoz-Guatemala’s vehicle and ordered him to park the vehicle.

Ross told the driver to roll down his window all the way down and said he would break it if he didn’t. Ross used a device known as a “spring window punch” to break the rear driver’s side window and reached inside the car to unlock the driver’s door.

Munoz-Guatemela drove away, dragging Ross down the street as he accelerated, with Ross’ arm trapped in the vehicle. Ross fired the stun gun, striking Munoz-Guatemala with spikes in the head, face and shoulder.

Munoz-Guatemela was not incapacitated by the Taser and continued driving, outpacing Ross the length of a football field in 12 seconds, prosecutors said. Ross was forcibly rescued from the vehicle after Munoz-Guatemala went onto the curb a second time and turned into the street.

Ross’s right arm was bleeding, and an FBI agent applied a tourniquet. He eventually received dozens of stitches in a hospital. Prosecutors said he had “several large cuts and scrapes to his knee, elbow and face.”

“It was pretty excruciating pain,” Ross said.

Munoz-Guatemela was bleeding from his injuries and a woman called 911 to say she had been attacked and that she didn’t know if the person trying to stop her was a police officer. He was arrested and charged with assault on a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon.

The jury convicted Munoz-Guatemala at a trial last month, finding that Munoz-Guatemala “should have known that Jonathan Ross was a law enforcement officer and not an ordinary citizen trying to attack him.”

Federal officials defend agent without identifying him

Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday praised the agent’s service to the country without naming him, saying the ICE officer “deserves a debt of gratitude.”

“This is a man who has actually done a very, very important job for the United States of America,” Vance said. “He was attacked. He was assaulted. That’s why he got injured.”

DHS assistant Tricia McLaughlin declined Thursday to confirm the agent’s identity, saying it would be dangerous to her and her family’s safety. But he said he was selected for ICE’s special response team, which includes a 30-hour trial and additional training on special skills such as breach techniques, perimeter control, hostage rescue and firearms.

“He acted according to the training he received,” he said. “This officer is a long-time ICE officer who has served his country throughout his life.”