The Intercept reported the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who shot a Minneapolis, Minnesota mother of a six year-old in the face and killed her Wednesday is Jonathan Ross, a deportation officer based out of the agency’s St. Paul field office.
“According to court documents from an unrelated case, Ross (43) has been with the agency since at least 2016,” the Intercept reported, based on a Thursday scoop from the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “In June, he was injured in a traffic incident while apprehending Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, an undocumented man later convicted of dragging Ross with his car.”
A Fox affiliate in Minnesota quoted a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson confirming that the agent involved in the shooting was the same agent dragged by Munoz-Guatemala in June. And while the New York Post ran a story referencing Ross’s dragging incident, it did not at the time name him.
“Video footage from the Munoz-Guatemala incident shows a beige Chevy Tahoe, the same SUV make and model that was on scene, parked close to Good’s dark red SUV before the shooting,” reported the Intercept. “A photo on the Facebook page of a man identified in public records as Ross’s father shows a man carrying an assault weapon captioned ‘Jon Ross in Iraq.’ The man pictured in the photo and others closely resembles images of the agent at the scene of Wednesday’s shooting. Ross previously lived near Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army base in New Mexico and on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas.”
The Intercept further reported a man who picked up a phone at the number linked in public records to Ross’s father hung up when asked about his son on Thursday.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem described Ross’ victim as a “domestic terrorist,” but the Intercept claims video footage “contradicts the government’s narrative.”
“The video shows the officer telling Good, ‘Get out of the f—— car,’ before shooting into her car three times, then walking away apparently uninjured,” the Intercept reported.
Read the Intercept report at this link.