ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shoots U.S. citizen Renee Good in Minneapolis

On the morning of January 7, 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer Jonathan Ross, 43, fatally shot Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and mother of three, on a residential street in south Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge. Good had just dropped her six-year-old at school and stopped with her wife to observe and object to ICE's presence in the neighborhood. With her SUV positioned sideways in the street, an agent ordered her out of the car and reached through her open window; Good briefly reversed, then began moving the vehicle forward and to the right. Ross — standing at the front-left of the vehicle and filming on his phone — fired three shots, killing her, as the SUV turned away from him. Bystander and agent bodyworn video of the killing circulated widely within hours.

The administration's account shifted and hardened in the days that followed. President Trump said Good had "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called the killing "an act of domestic terrorism" and labeled Good a "domestic terrorist," and Vice President J.D. Vance said the officer fired in self-defense and called it "a tragedy of her own making." A New York Times analysis of three camera angles found the vehicle "appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire," and Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz said the videos contradicted the federal narrative. Minnesota officials reported that the FBI refused to work jointly on the investigation and that they could not access evidence; the agent who fired was later returned to duty without discipline, and federal authorities declined to open a civil-rights investigation.

This is recorded as the killing of an unarmed civilian by a federal immigration officer — an act of excessive force and of violence in immigration enforcement, produced by the militarized street-enforcement posture of Operation Metro Surge. Good's death, the first of two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens by federal agents during the surge, became the catalyst for nationwide protests and a defining event of the operation.

Updates

2026-01-23 — FBI supervisor resigned over pressure to drop Ross probe [5, 6]

FBI supervisor Tracee Mergen, who had been investigating the shooting jointly with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, resigned amid pressure from Justice Department and FBI leadership to reclassify or discontinue the civil-rights investigation into Ross. Sources said Mergen had declined to yield to that pressure before departing. Her resignation followed roughly six federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for Minnesota who had already resigned over the investigation's direction — part of the same wave of departures already recorded on the related entry federal-politicized-investigations-48bc7bc4.

2026-02-27 — Senators demanded IG probe into DOJ's blocking of the case [7]

U.S. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Dick Durbin formally called on the Justice Department's Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate FBI Director Kash Patel and senior DOJ officials over the decision to shut down the civil-rights investigation into Ross. The senators' release stated that First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson had announced a joint federal civil-rights investigation and that FBI agents had prepared a warrant to gather evidence, before senior DOJ and FBI officials halted the probe shortly after.