The father of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minnesota, has come out to defend his son’s actions and believes he will be cleared of his crimes.
“He won’t be charged with anything,” Ed Ross, 80, told reporters. daily maildescribing his son as a “great” man of whom he was deeply proud.
Goode, a 37-year-old mother of three, shot and killed Jonathan Ross after she was confronted by Jonathan Ross and other agents in their car on a Minneapolis street on Wednesday.
Video footage shows Goode driving a maroon SUV idling on an icy street occupied by several government vehicles. As Ross and other agents approached, they ordered her to “get out of the car,” and one of the agents reached into the driver’s side window. As the SUV began to move forward, Ross, who was standing near the driver’s side of the car, pulled out a gun and fired multiple rounds into the vehicle, which then crashed a short distance away.
The incident has become a national spotlight, with the Trump administration accusing Goode of trying to run over Ross and calling the act “domestic terrorism,” while state and local authorities condemned the ICE agent’s reckless response and said his life was never in danger.
The father of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Goode, defended his son’s actions in a new interview. “You couldn’t ask for a nicer, nicer person,” he said. Ross pictured after mother-of-three was shot to death (screenshot)
Renee Good is a 37-year-old poet and mother of three (Facebook)
“She hit him,” Ed Ross told daily mail. “He also had an officer with his arm in the car. He will not be charged with anything.”
“You couldn’t ask for a nicer, kinder person,” added the father from Illinois. “He was a devoted, conservative Christian, a great father, a great husband. I couldn’t be more proud of him.”
On Thursday, multiple media outlets confirmed that 43-year-old Rose was the shooter. It was also reported that he received more than two dozen stitches after being dragged away by a vehicle during a separate immigration enforcement operation last year. Vice President Vance said Thursday that the incident left him “a little sensitive.”
A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security told independent They would not “reveal” the name of the agent who shot Goode, but added that he had worked for ICE for more than 10 years.
Goode was shot and killed by Ross after her SUV crashed into a utility pole (Getty)
Mourners gather at the site in Minneapolis where Goode was shot and killed by ICE agents (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
ed ross told daily mail His son’s wife is a Filipino immigrant and a U.S. citizen, but he did not say how long she had lived in the United States. “I don’t want to say any more,” he said.
“The wife is very polite, very friendly and very outgoing,” a neighbor also said. “They have several children.”
Ross is an Iraq War veteran. In 2017, his father posted a photo on Facebook of his son wearing camouflage and holding a rifle with the caption “Jon Ross in Iraq.” In 2015, ICE agents used a Veterans Administration loan to buy a home in the Minneapolis area, the outlet said, citing property records.
Neighbors said Jonathan Ross was a “big supporter of Make America Great Again,” with some noting they saw Trump stickers and “Don’t Tread on Me” flags outside his home — often associated with opposition to government overreach.
