Last summer, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent found himself in a perilous situation.
His arm was pinned into the back window of a car as a suspect sped away, dragging him across the pavement for about 100 yards, according to court documents. The agent, who suffered injuries to his arm and hand, fired his Taser at the man during the encounter, records show.
Roughly six months later, the same officer faced another driver who hit the gas as he tried to stop her vehicle. This time, he fired with his service weapon killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.
The officer in the June case is identified in court documents as Jonathan Ross. A senior Department Homeland Security official confirmed that case involved the same officer who fired the shots that killed Good this week.
A transcript of Ross's testimony from the June case reviewed by CNN adds new detail to his experience, which includes a tour of duty with the National Guard in Iraq as a gunner from 2004 to in 2005. In his testimony he describes performing "hundreds" of traffic stops in his career over nearly two decades in Border Patrol and then ICE including encounters with drivers seeking to flee.
"They do erratic behaviors, they take great risks, and they seem to not be aware of other people driving on the road," Ross told the jury. "They usually they make just extreme movements with their vehicles."
Ross served in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 with the Indiana National Guard, he testified in court, and then joined Border Patrol in 2007. He said he worked with the agency near El Paso, Texas, where he worked on intelligence about "cartels and drug smuggling," before joining ICE in 2015.
With ICE, he said, he works in fugitive operations in the Minneapolis area and regularly collaborates with other federal agencies. "I target higher value targets," he testified.
The agent's experience in ICE included a selection to a Special Response Team, McLaughlin said, which requires 30 hours of tryouts, continuous training and expert marksman qualifications.
His violent encounter with a suspect last June began when federal officials moved in to arrest Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala, an undocumented immigrant who had been charged with sexually abusing a teenage relative in 2022, according to a court affidavit written by an FBI agent involved in the case.
Muñoz-Guatemala swerved the car down the street and dragged Ross about 100 yards, according to the affidavit, before the agent was knocked away from the vehicle. Muñoz-Guatemala then drove with the Taser hanging out of the car window and was arrested about a mile away by local police officers.
Muñoz-Guatemala was charged with assault on a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon and resulting in bodily injury and was convicted by a jury in December after a three-day trial. His sentencing is pending.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/us/ice-agent-minneapolis-shooting-car-dragged-invs 
