I confronted the ICE shooter in Minneapolis: The untold account of a 12-second encounter... and the chilling details that put the nation on the brink
An illegal immigrant sex offender who 'dragged' ICE officer Jonathan Ross for over 360ft admitted the agent's life had been in danger and said 'wow' when he saw the footage.
The felon said he felt 'terrible' about inflicting the 'awful' experience on Ross, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The shocking incident happened seven months before Ross, 43, fatally shot Renee Good, 37, in Minneapolis, which - along with the January 24 shooting of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti - sparked mass protests and a national reckoning over the Trump administration's immigration roundup policies.
It also took place just a 15-minute drive from where Ross would later shoot Good.
On June 17, the officer's arm got caught in the window of a car driven by illegal immigrant Roberto Carlos Munoz, 40, who drove off as Ross tried to detain him.
Previously unpublished court testimony, reviewed by the Daily Mail, revealed new details about the prior incident, including that Ross was dragged farther than previously thought by the car.
An FBI expert on the scene measured the distance traveled as 360ft in a straight line over the course of 12 seconds, but said it was farther because the car took a route in the shape of an 'S' veering from side to side.
Measuring tracks left by Ross's feet dragging across the ground, the expert assessed that he had come within 17 inches of being smashed into a parked car.
ICE agent Jonathan Ross was dragged for 12 seconds by Roberto Carlos Munoz
Illegal immigrant Roberto Carlos Munoz told a court, 'Wow, I feel terrible' when he was shown footage of how he dragged Ross for over 360ft
Court documents revealed that after Munoz was shown video of the incident, he apologized through an interpreter at his trial.
'Wow, I feel terrible because now that I've watched the video, seeing that it was an (ICE) officer and I didn't know it, I feel awful,' he said.
When asked by a lawyer if he agreed that Ross's life had been in danger, he responded: 'Wow. Yes.'
Following the three-day trial in December, Munoz was convicted of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous and deadly weapon (the car) and causing bodily injury. He has yet to be sentenced.
According to records of testimony in his trial, Munoz revealed that he was born in Mexico but had been living illegally in the United States for 20 years, working as a cook in a restaurant, and a cleaner.
In 2022, he was convicted of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony offense, according to the Department of Justice.
However, he was not deported to Mexico at that time. ICE issued a detention notice, but local authorities in Minnesota did not honor it and released him. It was unclear why.
On June 6, 2025, Munoz went to a police station in a Minneapolis suburb to report that he was being extorted over the phone by criminals demanding money from him in relation to his sex conviction. He said he had already handed over $2,000.
Eleven days later, ICE officers, including Ross, went to detain him for being in the country illegally.
At his trial, Munoz told the court that he left his house on June 17 and was on his way to his girlfriend's when he saw cars speeding toward him so he pulled over.
He claimed not to have noticed their sirens or flashing red and blue lights, or the 'police' placards on the officers' vests, and said that he was 'terrified' it was the people extorting him.
Officer Ross attempts to stop Munoz before being dragged
Officer Ross's arm injury after being dragged for over 360ft in June
Officer Ross needed 20 stitches in his right arm after being dragged
Renee Good was shot dead by ICE officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis on January 7
Renee Good in the driver's seat of her car moments before she was shot
He added that he believed the people approaching him were civilians.
'A normal civil(ian) person came out and started pointing a gun at me,' he told the court. 'I was asking them who they were. They told me to turn my car off and to open my window. The person next to me (Ross) told me, again, for me to turn my car off or else he was going to break the window. I got more scared.
'He got out a metal piece that he had in his hand, again, and said, "I'm going to break your window"... and he did, and I got more scared. I panicked because I didn't know who these people were or what they wanted and I thought that it was these people who were extorting me.'
After Ross broke the rear driver-side window, Munoz sped off, but Ross's arm became trapped in the window and he was dragged along, the court heard.
As the car was moving, Ross fired his Taser at Munoz in an attempt to stop the vehicle.
Munoz said, as he drove off, he 'felt the shots in my head,' which was Ross firing his Taser.
Munoz claimed he did not know he was dragging Ross, despite the officer's arm being trapped in the rear driver-side window, less than a foot away from him. Ross was also yelling and firing the Taser, the court heard.
Roberto Carlos Munoz, 40, who had been in the United States illegally for 20 years, was convicted of assaulting Officer Ross
Jonathan Ross, 43, is an Iraq war veteran who joined ICE in 2015
Tear gas during protests in Minneapolis on January 21, 2026
After having already dragged Ross for 11 seconds, Munoz's car jumped a curb, which he denied was an attempt to shake the officer off, the court heard.
'I was feeling a horrible pain [from the Taser] and that must have been the reason why I wasn't able to keep my car going straight,' Munoz claimed.
Ross eventually became detached from the car and rolled into the street, the court heard.
Munoz drove on to his girlfriend's house, about ten minutes away, and had her call 911, the court heard. She claimed he had been 'beaten' by people pretending to be ICE officers.
A police officer later arrived and arrested Munoz, who was cooperative.
'Had I known they were ICE, honestly, with all due respect, I would have not called the police so that they would come and arrest me,' Munoz told the court. 'I would have fled.'
During the trial, Ross took the stand as the key prosecution witness, and showed the jury his scars from the encounter.
His injuries required 33 stitches to his right arm and left hand.
'I was fearing for my life,' Ross told the court. 'I knew I was going to get drug. And the fact I couldn't get my arm out, I didn't know how long I would be dragged. So I was kind of running with the vehicle because I didn't want to get drug and pulled underneath the back of the tire.
'He almost swiped me off on my vehicle, and at this point I feared for my life. And the only thing I had left, tools to use, was my Taser. So I quickly drew my Taser. I shot it. I got it right through the window crack. I put it in there, where I thought he was at, and I just pulled the trigger. It deployed 10 rounds. I did see the impacts on his face. It didn't appear that it affected him at all.'
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has asked ICE to leave the city
An anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis in the wake of the shooting of Renee Good
Ross said he feared that he would 'get run over and serious injury or death because my arm is still caught. Who knows what would happen if my arm got caught and my leg gets put underneath the wheel?'
The officer told the jury how he had served in Iraq in 2004 to 2005 as a US Army machine gunner on a gun truck combat logistical patrol team, and had been in the Indiana National Guard.
In 2007, he joined the United States Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas, and then joined ICE in 2015.
On January 7, Ross fired three times into Good's SUV as it began to move.
The Department of Homeland Security maintains the officer acted in self-defense, and that Good 'weaponized' her car and tried to run him over. That has been refuted by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
The US Department of Justice is not investigating Ross over the shooting of Good.
