The ICE officer who shot Renee Goode in Minneapolis has decades of service in the military and law enforcement

The federal agent who shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis is an Iraq War veteran who served nearly two decades with the Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Renee Goode Wednesday, has served as a deportation officer with ICE since 2015, records show. Last summer, he was fatally wounded by a stun gun when he was pulled over by a fleeing suspect.

Federal authorities have not named the officer who shot Good, a 37-year-old mother who was shot as she tried to get away from federal agents. But Homeland Secretary Christy Noem said the agent who shot Goode was pulled over by a vehicle last June, and a department spokeswoman confirmed Noem was referring to Bloomington, Minnesota, where documents identified the wounded officer as Ross.

Noem and other Trump administration officials have defended the agent as a seasoned law enforcement professional who followed his training and shot Goode when he believed he was trying to run him or other agents into his vehicle. The video has raised questions about whether the shooter was in self-defense, and the FBI is investigating the fatal use of force. Some protesters are demanding that Ross face criminal charges, and Minnesota officials also want to investigate.

Attempts to reach Ross, 43, for a phone number and email address were not immediately successful.

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Experienced military and law enforcement officer

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

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

Ross said he has served as a deportation officer in Minnesota since joining ICE in 2015. He testified last month, seeking to arrest “high-value targets” in the ICE area, which includes Minneapolis. He said he was also a team leader for the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.

“So I develop targets, create a target package, conduct surveillance and then plan to execute an arrest warrant,” he said.

Ross said he has been a firearms instructor, an active shooter instructor, a regional intelligence officer and a SWAT team member. He said he attended the Border Patrol Academy in New Mexico, where he learned to speak Spanish.

He was seriously injured last June

Ross was the leader of a team of agents who went to the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington on June 17 to arrest a man who was in the U.S. illegally. Agents gathered outside Roberto Munoz-Guatemala’s home, according to court records.

FBI agents activated emergency sirens and lights, instructing him to pull over, but he refused. Ross pulled his car diagonally in front of Munoz-Guatemala, forcing him to stop.

Ross and an FBI agent identified themselves as police and drew guns on Munoz-Guatemala, who raised his hands. Ross then approached Munoz-Guatemala’s vehicle and ordered her to put it in park.

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

As Munoz-Guatemela drove, Ross’s arm got caught in the vehicle and accelerated, pulling Ross onto the road. Ross fired his Taser, striking Munoz-Guatemala in the head, face and shoulder.

Munoz-Guatemala was not incapacitated by the Taser, prosecutors said, and kept driving, passing Ross the length of a football field in 12 seconds. Ross was forcefully freed from the vehicle after Muñoz-Guatemala backed onto the curb and onto the street a second time.

Ross was bleeding from his right arm, and an FBI agent applied a tourniquet. Eventually, he was hospitalized with dozens of stitches. Prosecutors said he suffered “severe cuts, and abrasions to his knees, elbows and face.”

“It was excruciating pain,” Ross testified.

Munoz-Guatemela was bleeding from her injuries and a woman called 911, saying she had been attacked and didn’t know if the officer was the one trying to stop her. He was arrested and charged with assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon.

A jury last month found Munoz-Guatemala guilty in a trial, saying she “should have reasonably known that Jonathan Ross was a law enforcement officer and not a private citizen who attempted to attack him.”

Federal authorities are not identifying the agent

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

“This is a guy who has really done something very important for the United States,” Vance said. “He’s been attacked. He’s been attacked. That’s why he’s injured.”

DHS Assistant Tricia McLaughlin declined to confirm the agent’s identity Thursday, saying doing so would be dangerous to her and her family’s safety. But he noted that he was selected for ICE’s Special Response Team, which includes a 30-hour effort and additional training in specialized skills such as breaching techniques, perimeter control, hostage rescue and firearms.

“He acted according to his training,” she said. “This officer is a longtime ICE officer who has served his country his entire life.”