The ICE agent who opened fire in Minneapolis Wednesday was dragged 100 yards by an illegal migrant in Minnesota last June after his arm was trapped inside the vehicle during a traffic stop, The Post can reveal.
The attack on the officer, identified in court documents as Jonathan Ross, happened June 17 in Bloomington, Minnesota, exactly a month after embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz labeled ICE agents “modern-day Gestapo” while speaking at a University of Minnesota Law School graduation in May.
ICE agents conducted a traffic stop on Roberto Carlos Munoz, a serial illegal immigrant from Guatemala with a lengthy rap sheet with charges including domestic assault and sex crimes against an underage teenager, according to records.
Munoz refused to exit his vehicle when officers approached his car, and Ross broke the back driver’s side window in order to open the vehicle from the inside.
The aftermath of the shooting that left Renee Nicole Good dead.CRAIG LASSIG/EPA/Shutterstock
The suspect then sped away with Ross’ arm caught between the seat and the car frame, according to the Justice Department.
Prosecutors said he was violently dragged more than 100 yards as the suspect weaved back and forth in an attempt to shake him loose from the car.
Ross was hospitalized with “significant injuries to his arm and hand,” requiring 33 stitches, but made a full recovery, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement at the time.
A photo shared by CBS Minnesota showed the agent laid out on a hospital bed displaying his arms, one covered in blood seeping from several deep gashes.
Munoz was arrested and charged with assaulting the officer and was convicted by a federal jury last month.
A defense attorney for Munoz didn’t immediately return a request for comment Thursday.
That assault is part of a sky-rocketing trend of car attacks on ICE agents — with such incidents surging 3200% in the last year, according to stats released by DHS Thursday.
Agents reported 66 attacks compared to only two during the same period in 2024, the data showed.
Federal immigration officers have also reported a 1,347% increase in assaults and a whopping 8,000% surge in death threats during the first year of President Trump’s second term.
Ross fired three shots — killing Renee Nicole Good, 37 — on Wednesday after she drove her car toward him during an altercation on the street.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said the “experienced” officer, a 10-year veteran of the agency, had acted in self defense and was justified in opening fire, and that Good was part of a “mob of agitators” attempting to thwart ICE’s efforts in enforcing President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Ross, who based in Minneapolis full time, is a member of the ICE ERO Special Response Team, a specially-trained tactical unit, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Wide-angle footage of the incident appears to show that Good clipped Ross with her car after ignoring orders to exit the vehicle.
He quickly jumped out of the way, firing a single shot through the windshield and two additional shots through the open driver’s side window, striking her in the head.
President Trump echoed Noem’s defense of the agent, telling the New York Times he acted in self defense after being struck by Good’s car.
The shooting poured gasoline on the long-smoldering tension between federal immigration agents and protesters who have fought back — at times violently — against the presence of agencies like ICE enforcing the law in their communities.Â
