Agent Who Shot Good Was Injured in Dragging Last Year

The federal officer who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday has been identified as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross, according to court records and a law enforcement source cited by the Star Tribune. ICE has not publicly named the agent involved, but Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the man was dragged by a car during an operation months earlier, reports MPR News. Court files show Ross is the ICE agent who was dragged by a fleeing driver during an arrest in Bloomington, Minnesota, on June 17, 2025.

In that incident, Ross joined agents attempting to detain Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, a Mexican national with a prior conviction for fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct. When Munoz allegedly refused commands, Ross broke a rear window to unlock the car. Munoz then accelerated, pulling Ross alongside as the agent twice used a Taser while the vehicle swerved "in an apparent attempt to shake" him off, prosecutors said. Ross was eventually thrown from the car, suffering deep cuts that required 33 stitches. Homeland Security confirmed that was the case Noem had referred to. The Guardian reports that Ross is a Minneapolis resident and a 10-year veteran of ICE's enforcement and removal special response team.

It's not clear whether Ross will face charges in the killing of Renee Nicole Good, though video suggests his life was not in danger when he opened fire. Administration officials defended his actions Thursday, and state investigators said they had been frozen out of the investigation and would no longer have access to case materials. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said the move was "very concerning," Politico reports. "We've been trying to figure out how can we get somebody at the FBI, somebody to understand the damage that they're doing with this kind of decision," he told CNN. Noem claimed at a press conference Thursday that the state has "no jurisdiction" in the case.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Thursday that it "feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome," NBC News reports. "And I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment, from the president to the vice president, to Kristi Noem have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate," he said. "They have determined the character of a 37-year-old mom that they didn't even know." Noem, the governor said, had assumed the role of "judge, jury and basically executioner."