The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday was dragged by a car in the line of duty last summer, according to court records.
Federal officials have not publicly named the agent, but said he was injured in another case in June, when he was pulled along by a vehicle that sped off during an investigation.
In court records from a case with details matching that incident, an agent named Jonathan Ross suffered a “substantial wound” on his arm while trying to detain a Guatemalan migrant.
Ross needed more than 50 stitches, and had abrasions on his knee, elbow and face, according to the court papers.
Ross has worked with ICE in Minnesota since 2017, the BBC’s US news partner CBS reported.
The Indiana National Guard also confirmed that Ross was deployed to Iraq for one year in late 2004 with Headquarters Company, 138th Signal Battalion. He was with the National Guard until 2008.
During his deployment, Ross received the Army Commendation Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, Global War on Terrorism Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal.
Federal officials have said the ICE agent who killed Good acted in self-defence, an account rejected by state officials based on videos.
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News the officer had received dozens of stitches and “abrasions all over his body” on 17 June, while trying to arrest a “child sex offender”.
At a White House press briefing on Thursday, Vice-President JD Vance said the officer “nearly had his life ended” when he was “dragged by a car six months ago”.
US media, citing unnamed sources, also reported that the officer in the June case is the one who shot Good.
As an ICE agent, he is a member of a specialised response team, which, according to the agency, works with high-risk warrants and deportations of dangerous criminals.
