An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been charged with two counts of assault related to a road rage incident by state prosecutors in Minnesota, who have issued a nationwide warrant for his arrest.
The ICE agent, Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., is accused of pointing his duty gun at the heads of two people in another car on Feb. 5 as he tried to pass them while illegally driving in his unmarked SUV on the shoulder of a highway in Minneapolis, prosecutors said Thursday at a press conference.
The incident came on the heels of the killings in January of two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, by federal agents in Minneapolis, amid the Trump administration’s controversial Operation Metro Surge immigration enforcement actions in the Twin Cities.
Those killings remain under investigation by local prosecutors.
Morgan “is the first federal agent charged in connection with what happened here in Operation Metro Surge,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in announcing the charges of second-degree assault against the agent.
