# ICE Minneapolis Killings The January 2026 killings of two U.S. citizens — **Renée Good** and **Alex Pretti** — by federal immigration agents during **[[Operation Metro Surge]]**, the Trump administration's immigration crackdown on the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metro area. These are the most widely covered instances of U.S. citizens killed by immigration agents under Trump's second term; unlike the earlier, under-covered [[ICE Shooting of Ruben Martinez]], they drew national coverage, protests, and (in one case) a federal civil-rights investigation. ## Operation Metro Surge Beginning in December 2025, ICE launched Operation Metro Surge targeting the Twin Cities, later expanding statewide. Federal agents made more than 3,000 arrests and drew widespread criticism for warrantless arrests, aggressive clashes with protesters, and detentions and shootings of U.S. citizens. The non-fatal [[ICE Shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis]] by agent [[Christian Castro]] occurred in the same operation. ## The Two Killings **Renée Nicole Macklin Good** (37), an American woman, was fatally shot in Minneapolis on **January 7, 2026** by ICE agent [[Jonathan Ross]]. Good was stopped in her car when agents approached; as her vehicle moved forward and to the right, Ross — standing at the front-left — fired three shots, killing her as the car turned away from him. Ross's positioning in the vehicle's path is the textbook [[Officer-Created Jeopardy]] fact pattern, and it runs against DHS's own 2023 use-of-force policy. The standalone event page is [[Renée Good Killing]]. **Alex Jeffrey Pretti** (37), an American ICU nurse for the [[Department of Veterans Affairs]], was shot and killed on **January 24, 2026** by two Customs and Border Protection officers in Minneapolis. Pretti had been filming agents and directing traffic; after he stepped between an agent and a woman who had been pushed to the ground, he was pepper-sprayed, wrestled down by roughly six agents, and shot. The county medical examiner listed his death as a homicide. ## Investigation Status The DOJ Civil Rights Division opened a probe into Pretti's killing but **not** Good's. Months later (per NPR's April 2026 reporting) a meaningful federal probe remained elusive, and Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration for withholding evidence in both killings. Even Trump publicly said the Good and Pretti killings "should not have happened." ## KB Significance **National-coverage contrast.** The Minneapolis killings became a national story — protests, a congressional oversight report, a DOJ civil-rights probe — in sharp contrast to the [[ICE Shooting of Ruben Martinez]], a Hispanic working-class man whose death went uncovered for nearly a year and drew a grand-jury no-bill. The disparity is a recurring KB theme about which victims of immigration enforcement receive attention and accountability. **Accountability friction.** The selective federal investigation (Pretti yes, Good no) and the evidence-withholding litigation illustrate the institutional resistance to holding federal immigration agents accountable — the same dynamic visible in the Castro case, where accountability came from a *state* prosecutor rather than the federal government. ## See Also - [[Officer-Created Jeopardy]] - [[Renée Good Killing]] · [[Alex Pretti Killing]] - [[ICE Shooting of Ruben Martinez]] - [[ICE Shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis]] - [[ICE]] - [[Kristi Noem]]