Jonathan Ross is reportedly the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot a mother in Minneapolis has been identified.
Jonathan Ross is the officer who fatally opened fire on Renee Nicole Good, 37, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, the Minnesota Star Tribune first reported. Fox9 and The Intercept also identified the shooter as Ross.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters on Wednesday that the officer who shot Good was the same one who had been “dragged” and injured by a driver back in June.
The circumstances closely match a June 17, 2025 incident in Bloomington, Minn., for which Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala was found guilty of assault in federal court in December.
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A vigil for Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7, 2025 in Oakland, California.
The officer, identified in court documents for that case as Ross, punched through a window after stopping Munoz-Guatemala, who then tried to flee and dragged Ross “more than 100 yards” with his arm still in the car, leaving him with bloody injuries, according to exhibits entered in the case.
ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately return requests for comment, but in a statement later, ICE Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin defended the officer’s actions and said the agency would not release his identity.
“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.
On Jan. 7, in an incident captured on multiple bystander videos, Good was seen reversing her Honda Pilot as ICE agents attempted to open her car door, then moving forward and to the right when the agent opened fire, first through the windshield and then twice through the vehicle’s open window, killing Good.
Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez previously described Good as “an observer … watching out for our immigrant neighbors,” ABC News reported.
The masked agent can be seen on video going to the scene where Good’s car crashed into another, then walking away, getting into an SUV and leaving the area.
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 shared his thoughts on the shooting on Truth Social, describing the woman’s death as a “horrible thing to watch,” and claiming that the officer “seems to have shot her in self defense.
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A single bullet hole can be seen on the driver’s side of the windshield.
“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.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the White House’s version of events “bulls—” and suggested that ICE — which has been deployed to the city under the guise of rooting out alleged fraud by childcare agencies — “get the f— out” of the city.
Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said that federal authorities are barring it from taking part in the investigation of the shooting, the Associated Press reported. Large-scale protests against ICE entered their second day in the Twin Cities on Thursday.