ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony

Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement serviceman identified by aggregate quality outlets arsenic the national cause who changeable 37-year-old Renee Good successful Minneapolis connected Wednesday, is simply a seasoned deportation serviceman successful ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division, according to sworn grounds from the national territory tribunal successful Minnesota obtained by WIRED. A subordinate of a Special Response Team, ICE’s mentation of a SWAT team, he’s had duties arsenic a firearms trainer and led teams drawn from aggregate national agencies including the FBI, Ross testified.

The grounds stems from a December 2025 proceedings related to a June incidental with parallels to the enactment that led to Good’s killing.

In June according to Ross’s testimony, helium led a squad seeking to apprehend a antheral named Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala, who was connected an administrative warrant for being successful the United States without authorization. Because the man’s location was crossed from a schoolhouse and migration agents had nary authorization to participate his home, Ross testified, they alternatively trailed him successful unmarked vehicles.

Muñoz-Guatemala’s lawyer did not instantly reply to a petition for comment.

According to the December grounds and a New York Times relationship of an FBI agent’s affidavit associated with the case, Ross approached Muñoz-Guatemala and asked him to rotation down his model and unfastened his door. Ross, who testified that helium had been driving an unmarked vehicle, was dressed successful ranger greenish and grey, and wore his badge connected his belt, broke the driver’s broadside backmost model and reached into the vehicle, astatine which constituent Muñoz-Guatemala pulled away.

While being dragged astatine a velocity helium claimed seemed similar “40 miles an hr astatine least, if not more,” Ross pulled retired his Taser and fired it astatine the driver. Muñoz-Guatemala continued to drive, and succeeded successful shaking Ross from the car. At trial, Ross testified that helium suffered injuries that required 33 stitches.

According to the affidavit, Muñoz-Guatemala called 911 to study that he’d been assaulted by ICE, which led to his arrest. Last month, helium was convicted of battle connected a national serviceman with a unsafe weapon.

Reports from the Minnesota Star-Tribune and The Guardian identified Ross arsenic the shooter who killed Good, a parent and caller transplant to Minneapolis, during an migration enforcement enactment successful the city. Video of the incidental appears to amusement a national cause firing shots into Good’s conveyance arsenic she attempted to permission the scene. The serviceman did not look to person been struck by the vehicle, and Good appeared to beryllium turning the instrumentality to debar contact, video investigation by The New York Times and the Washington Post shows.

At Thursday’s White House property briefing, vice president JD Vance answered questions astir the incident, and his responses included galore identifying details astir Ross, chiefly relating to his enactment with Muñoz-Guatemala. “That precise ICE serviceman astir had his beingness ended, dragged by a car, six months ago, 33 stitches successful his leg,” said Vance, “so you deliberation possibly helium is simply a small spot delicate astir idiosyncratic ramming him with an automobile?”

Department of Homeland Security caput Kirsti Noem has repeatedly described Good’s actions arsenic an intentional enactment of “domestic terrorism.” An FBI probe into Good’s sidesplitting is ongoing.

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told WIRED successful a connection that the section is “not going to exposure the sanction of this officer. He acted according to his training.” McLaughlin added that national migration agents “are nether changeless menace from convulsive agitators” due to the fact that of “doxxing” and that the Minnesota Star Tribune, which archetypal published Ross’ name, “should delete their communicative immediately.”According to Ross’ December testimony, helium served successful the Indiana National Guard and was deployed to Iraq from 2004 to 2005 arsenic a instrumentality gunner connected a patrol truck, past joined Border Patrol successful 2007 aft finishing college, moving adjacent El Paso, Texas.