On Jan. 7, 2026, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in a Minneapolis neighborhood. Bystanders' footage of the shooting and the events that followed was quickly shared on social media, prompting outrage and scrutiny of the incident. Many people also sought to identify (archived) the ICE agent responsible.
Many social (archived) media (archived) posts (archived), including some that were quickly deleted (archived) and others that included an apparent photo of the ICE agent's face, claimed Good's killer was named Steve Grove (archived). Some of these posts also alleged Grove was from Minneapolis.
Snopes readers searched our website looking to verify the claim.
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The rumor was false. The ICE agent's name was Jonathan Ross,
Multiple credible news outlets, including The Minnesota Star Tribune, The Associated Press, The Guardian and NPR, among others, identified Ross as the agent who killed Good.
DHS declined to identify the agent in an email to Snopes, but confirmed that he had worked for ICE for more than 10 years, as the Guardian reported.
While there are multiple Americans named Steve Grove, the most prominent in the Minneapolis area is the publisher of The Minnesota Star Tribune. In social media posts (archived), the Star Tribune wrote that "a coordinated online disinformation campaign incorrectly" identified the ICE agent, who had "no known affiliation with the Star Tribune." Grove shared to his own accounts afterward that the Star Tribune had identified the real name of the ICE agent who killed Good.
A gun shop owner in southwest Missouri named Steven Grove also was falsely identified as the ICE agent, according to the Springfield Daily Citizen, a local newspaper.
Some of the posts incorrectly naming Steve Grove shared an apparent photo of the ICE agent unmasked. As Snopes previously reported, these "unmasking" images were actually generated with artificial intelligence tools, and therefore were not accurate depictions of the agent's face.
In breaking-news situations, social media is often rife with incomplete or false information. It may take time for credible, verified information to be available, particularly regarding the identities of people involved in the situations. It's best to approach social media posts claiming to identify an individual with skepticism before credible news reports confirm the information.
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