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The Intercept has<\/span> identified the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed an observer in a residential neighborhood of Minneapolis on Wednesday as Jonathan Ross, a deportation officer based out of the agency\u2019s field office in St. Paul.<\/p>\n Ross, 43, fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good during a confrontation between protesters and federal agents \u2014 ICE and Border Patrol \u2014 in the Central neighborhood just after 9:30 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to court documents from an unrelated case, Ross has been with the agency since at least 2016. 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.<\/p>\n The Minnesota Star Tribune was the first to publicly identify<\/a> Ross. In a brief article naming Ross, the local Fox affiliate quoted a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirming that the agent involved in the shooting was the same agent dragged by Munoz-Guatemala in June. The New York Post ran a story referencing Ross\u2019s dragging incident<\/a>, but did not name him.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s dark red SUV before the shooting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A photo on the Facebook page of a man identified in public records as Ross\u2019s father shows a man carrying an assault weapon captioned \u201cJon Ross in Iraq.\u201d The man pictured in the photo and others closely resembles images of the agent at the scene of Wednesday\u2019s shooting. Ross previously lived near Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army base in New Mexico and on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n A man who picked up a phone number linked in public records to Ross\u2019s father hung up the phone when asked about his son Thursday.<\/p>\n No one answered at an address listed for Ross outside Minneapolis, and no vehicles were present at the home.<\/p>\n The Department of Homeland Security, its field office in St. Paul, and ICE did not respond to multiple requests for comment. DHS justified the shooting on Wednesday by claiming that the agent feared for his life, saying Good was engaged in \u201can act of domestic terrorism.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThis appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism,\u201d said <\/a>DHS Secretary Kristi Noem at a press conference. \u201cThe ICE officer, fearing for his life and the other officers around him and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots; he used his training to save his own life and that of his colleagues.\u201d President Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social that video from the scene showed the agent being run over.<\/p>\n