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

According to Ross’ December testimony, he served in the Indiana National Guard and was deployed to Iraq from 2004 to 2005 as a machine gunner on a patrol truck, then joined Border Patrol in 2007 after finishing college, working near El Paso, Texas.

“I did normal Border Patrol duties,” Ross testified, “including line-watch operations, tracking, and I also was a field intelligence agent.” In that latter role, he testified, Ross “compiled and analyzed information from raw information, creating an intelligence product and focusing more so on the cartels and drug smuggling and also alien smuggling.”

In 2015, according to his testimony, Ross joined ICE, working in the ERO division, where he was tasked with targeting “higher-value targets” as a deportation officer in the Twin Cities area. A member of a joint anti-terrorism task force with the FBI, he testified that he’s a “team leader” who, on a typical operation, oversees two FBI agents and an IRS or ATF agent.

“I develop the targets, create a target package, surveillance, and then develop a plan to execute the arrest warrant,” he testified. He also described what he termed “collateral” duties he’s carried out in addition to deportation work.

“I am a firearms instructor, an active shooter instructor,” he testified. “I’m also a field intelligence officer, and I am a member of the SWAT team, the St. Paul Special Response Team.”

In his testimony, Ross said that he had made hundreds of vehicle stops in his career and generally described people who attempt to flee. “They do erratic behaviors,” he testified. “They take great risks, and they seem to not be aware of other people driving on the road. They usually—they make just extreme movements with their vehicles.”

In his testimony, Ross claimed that after he approached Muñoz-Guatemala, the man asked for his attorney.

In court, Eric Newmark, who was representing Muñoz-Guatemala, noted that even government lawyers hadn’t previously heard this assertion. “I think he just made it up on the stand,” Newmark told the judge. “He never said it before. I think he said it for a particular reason”—allegedly to show that Muñoz-Guatemala was aware that he was being apprehended by law enforcement and not attacked by a masked carjacker. A prosecutor in the case conceded that the claim was “grounds for impeachment” against Ross because he “did not previously say that—as far I know.”

Under cross-examination by Newmark, Ross testified that people he encounters often “act like they’re confused,” implying that they do know he’s a federal agent even if they appear not to.

“I believe it’s—it seems to be something that some ​​people just—just say to—to stall,” he testified. “I believe a lot of time people are on the phone and they’re waiting for people to get—to show up, especially with our line of work.

“They’ve got phone trees where they call and then protesters show up.”

Updated 8:30 am ET, January 9, 2026: Added citation to The Intercept, which identified Ross following the Minnesota Star-Tribune and first reported on a Facebook photo captioned “Jon Ross in Iraq.”