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CHASKA, Minn. \u2014 Before Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross encountered Renee Nicole Good on a snowy Minneapolis street, fatally shooting her as she tried to drive away during a confrontation, he spent years working for the government and serving in the military.
Now, as Minneapolis reels from yet another tragedy making national headlines, Ross is at the center of debate over whether his actions during Wednesday\u2019s confrontation were justified.
Trump administration figures, including President Donald Trump, have defended Ross and claimed that Good was an agitator who attempted to run him over with her SUV. Witnesses have told NBC News that it didn\u2019t appear Ross was in the direct path of Good\u2019s SUV as she tried to evade ICE officers.
Videos contradict<\/a> Trump\u2019s claim that Good \u201cviciously ran over\u201d Ross, showing that Good\u2019s car didn\u2019t knock him down and that his legs were to the side of the SUV as it moved by him while he fired.
On Friday, on a quiet, suburban cul-de-sac full of multi-level homes about 30 miles from the scene of the shooting in south Minneapolis, few neighbors were out bicycling and walking their dogs. Hockey sticks lay on porches and \u201clet it snow\u201d signs decorated doorways.
Some onlookers from other neighborhoods had come to observe the scene outside Ross\u2019 house, where he lives with his wife and children. Someone had ordered pizza to the home, and a delivery driver spent some time ringing the doorbell before returning to his car, taking the pies with him. Neighbors talked amongst themselves about getting away for the weekend.
One female neighbor, who asked that she not be identified by name for fear of retribution, said she saw people packing boxes at Ross\u2019 home Friday morning.
\u201cWhat I did see was three trucks and people moving boxes out of there. I texted one of my friends right away,\u201d she said. \u201cI mean, they were really hustling when I was down there.\u201d
Asked who was moving the boxes, she said, \u201cNo idea.\u201d
Multiple neighbors told NBC News that during the presidential election, a pro-Trump and at least one \u201cDon\u2019t Tread On Me\u201d Gadsden sign had been on display. There were no political signs outside the house Friday, and Ross\u2019 political affiliation is unknown.
A neighbor who also asked not to be identified by name said everyone in the neighborhood is \u201cfreaking out.\u201d She said the pro-Trump signage at Ross\u2019 home was noticeable because \u201cpart of the neighborhood is not generally supportive of Trump, so the houses stick out if they are.\u201d
So far, Ross has not made any public statements about the shooting. NBC News has made numerous attempts to reach him with no response.
None of the neighbors interviewed were aware that Ross worked for ICE, but one suspected he had some kind of involvement with the military because they saw him wearing fatigue pants.
Deployed to Iraq as a member of the Indiana National Guard from November 2004 to November 2005, Specialist Ross of the 138th Signal Battalion earned the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal among others, according to the guard.
During his time in Iraq, Ross was a machine gunner on a combat logistical patrol team, court documents show.
After he returned home, Ross joined the U.S. Border Patrol in 2007 in El Paso, Texas and worked for the agency until 2015 as a field intelligence agent who gathered and analyzed information on drug cartels and human traffickers.
That year, Ross joined ICE as a deportation officer based in Minnesota whose job, he testified in a case recently, was to identify and arrest \u201chigher value targets.\u201d
Ross testified that he was also a member of the FBI\u2019s Joint Terrorism Task Force as well as a firearms instructor and field intelligence officer. Ross said some of his work involves investigating organized crime and working on national security cases.
Ross was not part of the hiring surge that began in August under Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
While Ross\u2019 name has been widely reported, the DHS has, so far, refused to \u201cexpose the name of this officer,\u201d DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. But the agency has confirmed that Ross was seriously injured in June while trying to arrest an immigrant<\/a> who had refused to get out of his car.
Court records viewed by NBC News revealed that the sequence of events that left Ross bloodied and bruised bore some similarities to the scenario that ended with Good\u2019s death.
In both cases, Ross was confronting a driver at the wheel of a vehicle.
In the June incident, Ross broke the window of a car when the driver refused to exit the vehicle and then found himself being dragged at least 50 yards when the driver hit the gas.
\u201cI was yelling at him to stop,\u201d Ross testified of Robert Mu\u00f1oz-Guatemala, who was found guilty last month of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon. \u201cOver and over and over again at the top of my lungs.\u201d
Ross said in his testimony that he feared for his life and fired his Taser repeatedly at Mu\u00f1oz-Guatemala.
\u201cIt didn\u2019t appear that it affected him at all,\u201d Ross said.
After Ross fell from Mu\u00f1oz-Guatemala\u2019s car, he was in \u201cexcruciating\u201d pain, he said. He needed 33 stitches across all of his wounds.
Seven months after the dragging incident, Ross was on the job again in Minneapolis when he came across Good, a 37-year-old mother and U.S. citizen.
In videos of the confrontation<\/a>, which is under investigation by the FBI, Good\u2019s Honda Pilot SUV is seen partially blocking traffic on a residential street with several federal vehicles in her path. Next to the SUV, a woman, who later identified herself as Good\u2019s wife, and Ross, who is masked, are recording the scene with their phones.
One ICE officer tells Good to get out of the car and one grabs the driver\u2019s side door handle and reaches inside the open window.
Ross moves around the SUV, making his way to the front. Witness videos show Good reversing, then moving forward, turning her wheels to the right, away from the officers.
Ross, now at the front driver\u2019s side of the SUV, draws his gun. His video captures what sounds like him hollering \u201cwhoa,\u201d and he fires.
Witness videos show that at the moment Ross fires his first shot into the front of the SUV, its wheels are directed away from him. His legs appear to be clear of the car. He fires the second and third shots into the open driver\u2019s side window as the car is moving.
Ross\u2019 phone then captures the SUV accelerating down the street. A male voice says, \u201cf—— b—-.\u201d
Good, struck in the head, loses control of the SUV, which accelerates and crashes into a parked car about 140 feet away.
Another of Ross\u2019 neighbors said he was \u201cshocked\u201d when he found out the ICE officer who shot Good lives around the corner.
\u201cI assumed it was some ICE agent that had come into Minnesota for their operations,\u201d said a 44-year-old neighbor who asked to be identified by his first name, which is Jonathan. \u201cIt hurts to think that as someone who\u2019s lived here for probably quite a while, because it doesn\u2019t to me reflect what our community is about, what our state is about.\u201d
Daniella Silva is a national reporter for NBC News, focusing on immigration and education.
Rebecca Cohen is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
Corky Siemaszko is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital.
© 2026 NBCUniversal Media, LLC<\/p>\n

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