Who is Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good dead in Minneapolis?

Minnesota Star Tribune and The Intercept identified the ICE agent, who shot Renee Good dead in Minneapolis triggering a major controversy on whether the firing was unprovoked, as Jonathan Ross, a deportation officer based out of the agency's field office in St Paul. The reports dug out Ross's past and revealed that he has been with the agency since at least 2016. In June 2025, he was injured in a traffic incident while apprehending Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, an undocumented man later convicted of dragging Ross with his car.

A photo on the Facebook page of a man identified in public records as Ross’s father shows a man carrying an assault weapon captioned “Jon Ross in Iraq", the Intercept reported. The man pictured in the photo and others closely resembles images of the agent at the scene of Wednesday’s shooting. Ross previously lived near Fort Bliss, a US Army base in New Mexico and on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas.




The Intercept reached out to Ross but did not hear back from him -- not from the phone number listed in public records, not from the address.

A major controversy has erupted after a different angle of the video of the shooting emerged showing that the woman, 37-year-old Renee Good was not trying to mow down Ross, but in fact was driving her car away.

Vance says ICE agent deserves a debt of gratitude

Though the administration did not reveal his name, vice president JD Vance said the ICE officer had been attacked in the past and "deserved a debt of gratitude". "This is a guy who’s actually done a very, very important job for the United States of America," Vance said. "He’s been assaulted. He’s been attacked. He’s been injured because of it."

According to court documents, the officer was part of a team that was attempting to apprehend a man in the United States illegally. He broke a window and reached into the vehicle, attempting to open the door when the driver sped off. He was then dragged by the vehicle. The officer’s right arm was bleeding, and an FBI agent applied a tourniquet. He was eventually transported to a hospital, where he received more than 50 stitches. Prosecutors said he had "suffered multiple large cuts, and abrasions to his knee, elbow, and face."