The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who killed a Minneapolis mother has a name now, and the details around this case are only getting more disturbing the longer you sit with them.
Jonathan Ross is the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, a 37 year old mother, on Wednesday, January 7. The Minnesota Star Tribune first broke the identification, with Fox9 and The Intercept backing it up shortly after. ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, have been doing what they do best in moments like this. Absolutely nothing. Calls for comment went unanswered. Silence is apparently still a policy position.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did step in front of reporters, though, and offered a detail that felt less like clarity and more like a warning label. According to Noem, the officer who shot Good was the same one who had previously been dragged and injured by a driver back in June. That incident lines up with a June 17, 2025 case in Bloomington, Minnesota, where Roberto Carlos Munoz Guatemala was later found guilty of assault in federal court.
Court documents identify that officer as Ross. In that incident, Ross reportedly punched through a car window after pulling Munoz Guatemala over. The driver then attempted to flee, dragging Ross more than 100 yards with his arm still inside the vehicle. Ross suffered bloody injuries, and the case ultimately ended with a conviction. File that under history, because it is now being quietly used as context for a killing that happened months later.
Fast forward to January 7. Multiple bystander videos captured the final moments of Renee Nicole Good’s life. In the footage, Good is seen reversing her Honda Pilot as ICE agents attempt to open her car door. Moments later, she moves forward and to the right. That is when Ross opens fire. First through the windshield. Then twice through the open window. Good was killed at the scene.
Let us pause here, because Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez described Good as an observer watching out for immigrant neighbors. Not a suspect. Not a target. An observer. A community member doing what communities have always done when enforcement shows up uninvited. Watching. Protecting. Bearing witness.
And then there is the part that makes your stomach turn. After Good’s car crashes into another vehicle, the masked agent can be seen walking back to the scene, looking around, and then casually leaving. He gets into an SUV and drives off. No urgency. No visible distress. Just another exit.
This is the part where officials ask for patience. Where investigations are promised. Where language gets soft and passive, as if bullets simply happened to fly and a woman simply happened to die. But the videos exist. The name exists. The pattern exists.
Renee Nicole Good should be alive. Her community should not be watching footage of her final moments on loop. And yet here we are again, being told to wait, to trust, to understand the pressures of a job that keeps ending in Black and brown bodies on the pavement.
Extra sassy truth of the day. Accountability should move faster than a getaway SUV. And until it does, no amount of official silence is going to quiet the outrage.
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