A lawyer representing the surviving family members of Renée Good, the 37-year-old mother of three from Colorado Springs killed January 7 by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, said federal agencies are not responding to a request to provide information needed to pursue a civil case against the agent.
“Our goal here is accountability against the government and Jonathan Ross for taking Renée Good's life,” said Sarah Raisch, a partner at Romanucci & Blandin, a Chicago law firm representing Good’s surviving loved ones. “We've had many lawyers and staff members step up to the plate to assist because it is such a matter of national importance and hugely important to our firm.”
ICE officer Jonathan Ross shot Good during an immigration raid in Minneapolis, where Good had recently moved and was living with her young son and her partner, Becca Good.
The law firm conducted a private, independent autopsy, separate from the one by the Hennepin County coroner’s office, that found one of three shots was fatal.
Conducted at the family’s request in January, it found three clear gunshot wound paths. Two of them – one striking her left forearm, and another crossing through her right breast without hitting major organs – were not life-threatening. The one that killed her was the shot to her head.
“One gunshot wound entered the left side of her head near the temple and exited the right side of her head,” the independent autopsy found, according to a law firm press release that noted Good also had a graze wound, but it was not clear whether that was from one of the other shots or a fourth bullet.
Had Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who sang in the choir at Coronado High School in Colorado Springs, been shot by a local or state officer, the process of filing a civil case against the shooter would have been more straightforward.
But 43-year-old Jonathan Ross is employed by ICE, part of the federal Department of Homeland Security.
According to Raisch: “As it stands now . . . an individual can sue a government actor for infringement on their constitutional rights if it is a local or state actor, not a federal actor. . . .You can't do that with a federal officer as it stands now.”
Still, there are steps Good’s lawyers are taking in seeking remedies in civil court, although they haven’t yet decided the damages they’ll seek. “We are still determining what the monetary relief sought will be,” Raisch said.
One week after the shooting, Romanucci & Blandin sent a nine-page, single-spaced Evidence of Preservation Notice, addressed to ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, the US Attorney’s Office, US Customs & Border Protection, as well as the FBI, the DOJ and the identified shooter whose address was listed in the city of Chaska, 30 miles southwest of Minneapolis.
The purpose of the notice is: “to alert them of our ongoing civil litigation and to ensure no evidence is destroyed,” Raisch said.
The law firm is representing Good’s partner, Becca Good as well as Renée Good’s siblings, parents and children.
The notice instructs recipients to secure items the law firm would like access to, including Good’s car, cell phone and anything she or the feds had stored on a cloud, thumb drive or other electronic device that could contain evidence related to her shooting. It also requests any pertinent electronic or printed documents; any texts between agents; any statements Ross made; anything case-related found in his home; and records related to his prior federal employment.
The letter, dated January 14, 2026, states that the entities have five days to reply, but Raisch said on March 6 that they have gotten no response, and a spokesman for the law firm confirmed Wednesday morning that had not changed.
“We've not received anything back from them,” Raisch said. “They're not confirming receipt of our letter; they're not confirming that they're preserving their investigation and so we're seeking more information.”
And, she said, she wants to make sure federal agents will be included along with state and municipal law enforcement officers as possible targets of such cases, even if that’s not currently possible.
“We are working with legislators to advance legislation to hopefully prevent this from happening again,” Raisch said.
“We are committed to transparency in this case because there has not been transparency from the government,” Raisch said. “Our letter of preservation was extremely robust and it included his disciplinary file, everything involving his employment with ICE — and our investigation is still ongoing. We're hoping that we obtain that information.”
Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the number of shots found in the independent autopsy.
