ICE agent who fatally shot Minnesota woman identified in court docs

Homeland Security officials said the immigration officer involved in this week's fatal shooting in Minneapolis is the same officer who was injured in June 2025 in another vehicle incident.

That Enforcement Operations Officer is identified in court documents as Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Jonathan Ross.

Officials declined to independently name Ross, but said he had at least 10 years of experience as an ICE officer and served on the agency's Special Response Team.

“We are not going to expose the name of this officer. He acted according to his training," wrote Tricia McLaughlin, the Homeland Security spokeswoman in a statement to USA TODAY.


Vice President JD Vance noted at the White House that this week's shooting incident echoed the agent's previous case that put him in the hospital.

“That very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago with 30 stitches in his leg, so he’s a little sensitive about being rammed by an automobile,” Vance said at the White House on Jan. 8. Vance did not directly name Ross at the White House briefing.|

The incident he spoke of coincides with an incident in Bloomington, Minnesota on June 17 where the officer, Ross, was injured apprehending Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, 39, a citizen of Mexico.

Ross used a window punch to break out Munoz’s rear window and then the man pulled away as the officer’s arm was caught. He was then dragged 100 yards down the street. He deployed a taser, according to court documents, but the Nissan Altima car continued.

"On June 17 in a suburb of Minneapolis this exact same officer was making a lawful arrest of a child pedophile, child sex offender when he reached his arm into the subject's vehicle," said McLaughlin, the Homeland Security spokeswoman appearing on Fox News. "That officer had 33 stitches and abrasions all over his body."

Ross had a cut to his right arm requiring 20 stitches and a cut to his left hand requiring 13 stitches, according to court documents.

A Minnesota federal jury found Munoz guilty in December of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon and resulting in bodily injury.

Munoz was charged in 2022 with repeatedly sexually abusing a minor victim. He was ultimately convicted of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony offense, according to the Department of Justice.oss was serving an administrative warrant for Munoz’s arrest due to lack of legal status in the United States in June.