New details emerged about Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who lethally shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old queer mother of three, on the streets of her Minneapolis neighborhood on Wednesday morning.

Interviews with family and neighbors describe him as a “committed Christian,” a MAGA supporter, and husband to an immigrant Filipina wife.

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That information emerged after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed that the officer who shot Good dead was “dragged” by a car driven by a suspected illegal immigrant whom he was tasked with apprehending last year.

While the Trump administration hasn’t released his name, on Thursday he was identified in press reports by his name and as a 43-year-old Iraq War veteran and an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations agent.

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The information was repeated on Thursday by Vice President J.D. Vance, who said the ICE officer “deserves a debt of gratitude.”

Records of the case led to revealing Ross’ identity.

In court testimony last year, Ross said he deployed to Iraq from 2004 to 2005 with the Indiana National Guard, serving as a machine gunner, WBUR reports.

After two years of college, Ross joined the Border Patrol in 2007 near El Paso, Texas, where he worked until 2015, serving as a field intelligence agent gathering and analyzing information on cartels and drug and human smuggling.

He’s served as a deportation officer based in Minnesota since joining ICE in 2015, assigned to fugitive operations and serving as 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 in the case.

Ross said that he was also a firearms instructor, an active shooter instructor, a field intelligence officer, and member of the SWAT team.  

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Ross’s father described him as “a committed, conservative Christian, a tremendous father, a tremendous husband. I couldn’t be more proud of him,” he said.

Asked about his Filipina daughter-in-law, the man said she was a US citizen but declined to say how long she’s been in the country. “I do not want to go any further than that.”

The couple married in August 2012, according to posts on her Instagram page.

A neighbor of Ross in a suburb on the outskirts of Minneapolis said that, until recently, he’d been flying pro-Trump flags and a “Don’t Tread On Me” flag (known as the Gadsen flag) at his home.

“I think he’s in the military. He has a military license plate,” one neighbor said. “He had a Don’t Tread on Me flag, and Trump/Vance stickers up during the election.”

“The wife is polite, very nice, very outgoing, while he’s very reserved. They have a couple of kids.”

Politics appear to have divided Ross’ immediate family.

In since-deleted Facebook comments by Ross, his sister took issue with Ross’ apparent support of the Proud Boys, an alt-right male chauvinist group that has allied in the past with neo-Nazis in anti-LGBTQ+ protests.

His sister Nicole posted a photo on the site in October 2020 of herself and a female friend wearing face masks with the caption, “I denounce and condemn white supremacy.”

Ross’ replies led Nicole and the friend to clap back at him in a heated exchange about Donald Trump’s supportive comments about the Proud Boys during his 2020 debate with Joe Biden, and Biden’s condemnation of the white nationalist militia.

“The Proud Boys heard his denouncement loud and clear! I watched the entire debate and heard every word. I respectfully disagree,” wrote Nicole’s friend.

“We have to respectfully disagree,” Nicole added. “You are my brother and I love you, but we will not engage in a debate on Facebook.”

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