The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who shot and killed a mother in Minneapolis has been identified as Jonathan Ross.
Ross fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, 37, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, the Minnesota Star Tribune first reported. Fox9 and The Intercept also identified Ross as the shooter.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters Wednesday that the agent involved was the same officer who had been “dragged” and injured by a driver in June. The details align with a June 17, 2025 incident in Bloomington, Minn., in which Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala was found guilty of assault in federal court in December.
In court documents from that case, the injured officer was identified as Ross. Exhibits filed in the case say Ross punched through a window after stopping Munoz-Guatemala, who then tried to flee, dragging Ross “more than 100 yards” with his arm still inside the car and leaving him with bloody injuries.
ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately return requests for comment. In a later statement, ICE Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin defended the agent’s actions and said the agency would not release his identity.
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“We are not going to expose the name of this officer. He acted according to his training,” McLaughlin said, adding that the agent had more than 10 years of experience as an ICE Deportation Officer.
“DHS will never confirm or deny attempts to dox our law enforcement officers. Doxxing our officers put their lives and their families in serious danger. Our law enforcement officers are on the frontlines arresting terrorists, gang members, murderers, pedophiles, and rapists. Now, thanks to the malicious rhetoric of sanctuary politicians, they are under constant threat from violent agitators,” McLaughlin’s statement added.
What Videos Appear to Show
In an incident captured in multiple bystander videos, Good was seen reversing her Honda Pilot as ICE agents attempted to open her car door. The vehicle then moved forward and to the right as an agent opened fire—first through the windshield and then twice through an open window—fatally striking Good.
Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez previously described Good as “an observer … watching out for our immigrant neighbors,” ABC News reported.
Video appears to show the masked agent walking to the area where Good’s vehicle crashed into another car, then leaving the scene in an SUV.
DHS and Trump Respond
In a post on X, the Department of Homeland Security accused Good of “weaponiz[ing] her vehicle” in an “act of domestic terrorism.”
President Donald Trump commented on the shooting on Truth Social, calling it a “horrible thing to watch” and saying the officer “seems to have shot her in self defense.”
“The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” Trump wrote.
Local Backlash and Investigation Questions
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rejected the White House’s characterization of what happened, calling it “bulls—,” and suggested that ICE—deployed to the city under the guise of rooting out alleged fraud by childcare agencies—should “get the f— out” of Minneapolis.
Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said federal authorities are barring it from participating in the investigation, the Associated Press reported. Protests against ICE continued into a second day in the Twin Cities on Thursday.
