Did ICE agent Jonathan Ross have internal bleeding after shooting Renee Good?

Checked on January 16, 2026
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Executive summary

Multiple news organizations reporting on the Jan. 7 Minneapolis incident say Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials confirmed ICE agent Jonathan Ross suffered internal bleeding to his torso after the encounter in which Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot; outlets also stress the extent of that bleeding is unclear and media staff raised concerns about how the claim was sourced [1] [2] [3].

1. What the reporting actually says about Ross’s injuries

Prominent outlets — including CBS News, ABC, Newsweek and local affiliates — published that U.S. officials and DHS spokespeople told reporters that Ross suffered internal bleeding to his torso and was treated at a hospital the day of the shooting and later released, while repeatedly qualifying that the severity and precise nature of the bleeding were not disclosed [1] [4] [2] [5].

2. How the claim entered the public record and who confirmed it

CBS first ran an account citing two anonymous U.S. officials that Ross “suffered internal bleeding to the torso,” a detail ABC and other outlets later repeated citing “multiple U.S. officials familiar” with Ross’s condition, and DHS representatives are reported to have confirmed the claim to some outlets, including Newsweek and Fox affiliates [1] [4] [2] [5].

3. Disagreements inside newsrooms and questions about sourcing

Reporting surfaced internal dissent at CBS, where staffers told The Guardian there was “huge internal concern” about publishing an injury detail based on anonymous officials; those staffers described the leak as potentially politically motivated and warned colleagues that it could be perceived as an administration-friendly justification for the shooting [3]. That internal debate underlines that several outlets relied on unnamed officials rather than medical records or on-the-record hospital statements [3] [1].

4. What video and other on-scene evidence do — and don’t — show

Published videos of the incident show Ross walking away after shots were fired, and reporting notes that footage has not clearly shown a vehicle striking him; outlets including ABC and local reporters emphasize that camera evidence does not independently document the trauma described in the anonymous-official accounts [4] [1]. Multiple reports therefore treat the internal-bleeding detail as a medical claim sourced to officials rather than corroborated by video or public medical documentation [1] [4].

5. How officials and political actors framed the injury claim

Senior administration officials and allies seized on the reported injury, framing Ross as having been endangered and using the detail to bolster a narrative of justification for the use of force; outlets recorded public statements from DHS leadership noting Ross was hospitalized and released, while critics flagged that characterizations of Good and the injury claim have been deployed politically [6] [7] [2].

6. Limits of available reporting and what remains unverified

None of the provided reporting includes Ross’s medical records, an on-the-record hospital statement with clinical detail, or forensic confirmation of the source and severity of any internal bleeding; the outlets explicitly acknowledge that the “extent of the bleeding” is unclear and that confirmation rests on statements from DHS or anonymous officials rather than primary medical documentation [1] [2] [5].

Conclusion: Direct answer

Based on the reporting assembled, government and DHS officials communicated that ICE agent Jonathan Ross suffered internal bleeding to the torso after the encounter; multiple national outlets published that account while noting the extent of the bleeding is unclear and that the claim is based on official statements and anonymous sources rather than public medical records or definitive visual evidence [1] [2] [3]. There remains a factual gap: the precise severity and clinical confirmation of the internal bleeding are not publicly documented in the cited reporting [1] [4].

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