Federal government turns over evidence from Renee Good’s death for court review
MINNEAPOLIS - The federal government has turned over evidence from the shooting death of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross to a magistrate judge in U.S. District Court for Minnesota, according to an attorney involved in a case tangential to Ross.
Eric Newmark said that the federal government informed him it had turned over a digital drive with the evidence to comply with an order issued by Judge Jeffrey Bryan. The deadline to turn over the evidence was May 1.
Newmark represents Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala, who was convicted of assaulting Ross last year in a traffic incident in Bloomington, Minn. Newmark has not seen the evidence and said he remains skeptical of whether the government will provide everything that was requested, or stay with its public stance that it is not investigating Ross for the killing of Good.
Last week, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said Ross “acted according to his training and in a manner that ensured his own safety and that of his fellow officers and bystanders” when Good was killed. That statement came in response to a question of whether Ross has returned to work as a federal agent in a different state.
This is the first known instance of the federal government supplying its own investigative evidence to the courts from any of the three shootings that took place in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge.
Last month, Bryan ordered the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to turn over a wide swath of evidence from the killing of Good, so the court could review it for relevancy ahead of sentencing. The order stemmed from the case against Muñoz-Guatemala.
The judge ordered the following evidence turned over:
A message was left with the Department of Homeland Security asking for details of the evidence turned over to the court.
Several entities have been seeking evidence from the federal government related to the shooting deaths of Good and Alex Pretti and the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis, which all took place in January in Minneapolis during the height of the largest federal immigration enforcement operation in United States history.
In a motion filed in April, Rebecca Good, Renee Good’s widow, asked a court to order the federal government to hand over the SUV her spouse was driving when she was fatally shot on Portland Avenue. Rebecca Good argued the U.S. government’s refusal to turn over the Honda Pilot inhibits her pursuit of a probe into the shooting as well as Minnesota’s own investigation.
A lawyer for the Good family, Kevin Riach, filed the motion and said it is “unreasonable for the government to at once decline to investigate” Ross while preventing Minnesota officials and Rebecca Good from accessing the vehicle. Riach claims the SUV remains shrink-wrapped and unexamined at an FBI storage facility in Brooklyn Center.
The state of Minnesota, through Attorney General Keith Ellison, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans, sued the Trump administration in March over the actions of federal agents during Operation Metro Surge.
The suit accused the top law enforcement agencies in the United States of withholding evidence from the killings of Good and Alex Pretti and the shooting of Sosa-Celis to protect agents from potential criminal charges.
The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which was blocked by the federal government from investigations into those shootings, said last week that they still have not officially been given the names of the agent who shot Good, the agents who shot Pretti and the agent who shot Sosa-Celis.
Last week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul sent a letter to White House border czar Tom Homan demanding to know if Ross was working as a federal agent in her state. She criticized the government over reports that Ross returned to work just days after Good was killed and without any use-of-force review by the federal government.
“If Jonathan Ross has been reassigned to work in New York, I demand that he be immediately removed and not redeployed unless cleared after a full, independent investigation,” Hochul wrote.
On Tuesday, Homan was asked by CBS News if ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents involved in the killings of Good and Pretti should face consequences if they committed wrongdoing.
“If they violated the law, they’ve got to be held responsible,” Homan said. “When they violate policy, you’ve got to be held responsible.”
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This story was originally published May 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM.