ICE officer in hiding after fatal Minneapolis shooting, Tom Homan says
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 14: White House Border Czar Tom Homan walks towards the West Wing following a video interview on the North Lawn outside of the White House on November 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Homan has been accused of taking a $50,000 bribe from undercover FBI agents. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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- Minneapolis shooting
- Renee Nicole Good
- Jonathan Ross
- Tom Homan
- Qualified immunity
- ICE OUT Act
- Domestic terrorism
WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer involved in the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is in hiding, according to Border Czar Tom Homan.
“I know for a fact now he has to be in hiding,” Homan said on Will Cain Country’s podcast. “There are ‘WANTED’ posters with his picture and his license plate number,” he added.
Video released of the shooting showed the officer, identified as Jonathan Ross, firing his gun several times as Good attempted to drive her SUV away.
The incident sparked debate on both sides of the aisle about whether or not the shooting by immigration authorities was justified.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accused Good of committing “domestic terrorism” while President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance argued the ICE agent acted in self-defense.
In response, Reps. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., introduced the ICE OUT Act that would strip federal ICE officers of their qualified immunity protections.
“Instead of accountability, the Trump admin deflects and smears victims of their agencies’ militarized violence in our streets,” Goldman said. “My ICE OUT Act with @RepSwalwell will end the current qualified immunity standard for ICE agents who abuse their authority, ensuring real accountability for those on the receiving end.”
The family of Renee Nicole Good released a statement on Wednesday honoring her life and thanking people for their support.
“The kind of unending care we’ve been given during this time is exactly the kind that she gave to everyone,” the statement read.
Ross was previously injured after an illegal immigrant rammed his car into him and dragged the agent 50 yards across the road last summer, according to Vice President JD Vance.
The ICE agent suffered significant cuts and received more than 30 stitches.
Man accidentally shot self while trying to hide firearm outside BR bank, police say
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Published: Jan. 7, 2026 at 12:15 AM GMT+7|Updated: Jan. 7, 2026 at 1:56 AM GMT+7
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – The Baton Rouge Police Department says a man who was injured in a shooting near a bank on Monday, Jan. 5, shot himself on accident.
BRPD responded to the scene in the 7230 block of Jefferson Highway around 1 p.m. on Monday and originally said three people were inside a vehicle in the parking lot of the bank when someone in the vehicle fired shots. One person was injured in the shooting and taken to the hospital. According to police, the other two people in the vehicle fled the scene.
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Authorities provided an update on Tuesday, Jan. 6, saying that the man who was injured in the shooting accidentally shot himself when he attempted to conceal his firearm from an officer. Additionally, police say the initial call was relative to a man and woman inside the bank, attempting to cash a fraudulent check. According to officials, when the first officer arrived on scene, they were advised there were several subjects outside in a vehicle and when attempting to contact them, a shot rang out in the vehicle.
The man who was shot, identified as Larry Scott Jr., was taken to a local hospital for treatment, and later booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison after detectives say they discovered a large quantity of Schedule II drugs in his possession. He also faces an illegal carrying of a firearm charge.
Another person, Dorsay Jones, was arrested along with Scott on theft and forgery-related charges. Authorities originally identified Jones as the man who was accidentally shot, but later sent out a correction.
This is an active investigation and anyone with information, is urged to contact the Violent Crimes Unit at 225-389-4869 or Crime Stoppers at 225-344-7867.
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Court records unpack background of Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good
- Ryan J. Foley, The Associated Press
The federal agent who shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis is an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Renee Good on Wednesday, has served as a deportation officer with ICE since 2015, records show. He was seriously injured last summer when he was dragged by the vehicle of a fleeing suspect whom he shot with a stun gun.
Federal officials have not named the officer who shot Good, a 37-year-old mother who was shot as she tried to drive away from federal agents. But Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem said the agent who shot Good had been dragged by a vehicle last June, and a department spokesperson confirmed Noem was referring to the Bloomington, Minnesota, case in which documents identified the injured officer as Ross.
Noem and other Trump administration officials have defended the agent as an experienced law enforcement professional who followed his training and shot Good after he believed she was trying to run him or other agents over with her vehicle. Video has raised questions about whether the shooting was in self-defense, and the FBI is investigating the deadly use of force. Some protesters are demanding that Ross face criminal charges, and Minnesota authorities also want to investigate.
Attempts to reach Ross, 43, at phone numbers and email addresses associated with him were not immediately successful.
Here are some things to know about him:
Experienced military and law enforcement officer
In courtroom testimony last month, Ross said he deployed to Iraq from 2004 to 2005 with the Indiana National Guard. Ross said he served as a machine gunner on a gun truck as part of a combat patrol team.
He said he returned from Iraq in 2005, went to college and joined the Border Patrol in 2007 near El Paso, Texas. He worked there until 2015, serving as a field intelligence agent gathering and analyzing information on cartels and drug and human smuggling.
Ross said he has served as a deportation officer based in Minnesota since he joined ICE in 2015. He is assigned to fugitive operations, seeking to arrest “higher value targets” in the ICE region that includes Minneapolis, he testified last month. He said that he was also a team leader with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
“So I develop the targets, create a target package, surveillance, and then develop a plan to execute the arrest warrant,” he said.
Ross said that he was also a firearms instructor, an active shooter instructor, a field intelligence officer and member of the SWAT team. He said that he attended the Border Patrol’s academy in New Mexico, where he learned to speak Spanish.
Seriously injured last June
Ross was a leader of a team of agents who went to arrest a man who was in the U.S. illegally in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington on June 17. Agents had gathered outside the home of the man, Roberto Munoz-Guatemala, who left in his car, according to court records.
FBI agents activated emergency sirens and lights instructing him to pull over but he did not. Ross pulled his vehicle diagonally in front of Munoz-Guatemala to force him to stop.
Ross and an FBI agent identified themselves as police and pointed guns at Munoz-Guatemala, who raised his hands. Ross then approached Munoz-Guatemala’s vehicle and ordered him to put it in park.
Ross told the driver to lower his window all the way down and warned that he would break it if he did not. Ross used a device known as a “spring-loaded window punch” to break the rear driver’s side window and reached inside the car to unlock the driver’s door.
Munoz-Guatemela drove off while Ross’ arm was caught in the vehicle and accelerated, dragging Ross down the street. Ross fired his Taser, striking Munoz-Guatemala with prongs in the head, face and shoulder.
Munoz-Guatemela was not incapacitated by the Taser, prosecutors said, and kept driving, taking Ross the length of a football field in 12 seconds. Ross was knocked free from the vehicle by force after Munoz-Guatemala drove onto a curb for a second time and back to the street.
Ross’ right arm was bleeding, and an FBI agent applied a tourniquet. Eventually, he received dozens of stitches at a hospital. Prosecutors said he had “suffered multiple large cuts, and abrasions to his knee, elbow, and face.”
“It was pretty excruciating pain,” Ross testified.
Munoz-Guatemela was bleeding from his injuries and had a woman call 911, saying that he was assaulted and didn’t know whether the person trying to stop him was an officer. He was arrested and charged with assault on a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon.
A jury found Munoz-Guatemala guilty at a trial last month, finding he “should reasonably have known that Jonathan Ross was a law enforcement officer and not a private citizen attempting to assault him.”
Federal officials defend the agent without identifying him
Vice President JD Vance praised the agent’s service to the country Thursday without naming him, saying the ICE officer “deserves a debt of gratitude.”
“This is a guy who’s actually done a very, very important job for the United States of America,” Vance said. “He’s been assaulted. He’s been attacked. He’s been injured because of it.”
DHS assistant Tricia McLaughlin declined to confirm the agent’s identity Thursday, saying doing so would be dangerous for the safety of him and his family. But she noted that he had been selected for ICE’s special response team, which includes a 30-hour tryout and additional training on specialized skills such as breaching techniques, perimeter control, hostage rescue and firearms.
“He acted according to his training,” she said. “This officer is a longtime ICE officer who has been serving his country his entire life.”
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