NEED TO KNOW
- Authorities have identified the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot a Minneapolis woman on Jan. 7
- The officer was identified by the Minnesota Star Tribune as Jonathan Ross
- Renee Nicole Good, who was 37 years old at the time of her death, leaves behind a wife and children
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot a mother in Minneapolis has been identified.
Jonathan Ross is he officer who fatally opened fire on Renee Nicole Good, 37, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.
PEOPLE has not independently verified the report. ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately return requests for comment.
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, reportedly Ross, 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 scene.
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.”
“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.
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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.
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