The woman shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday was Renee Good. She was a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota. As more details emerge about the U.S. citizen killed, Minnesota is also demanding to be involved in the investigation. Meanwhile, the Trump administration aims to keep it federal. Donna Ganger, Renee’s mother, told the Minnesota Star Tribune the family was notified of the death late Wednesday morning.
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” Ganger told the newspaper. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
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Woman Had Recently Left School Drop-Off Before ICE Shooting
Renee Good was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado and appears to have never been charged with anything involving law enforcement beyond a traffic ticket. In social media accounts, Good described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom.” She said she was currently “experiencing Minneapolis.”
She also has a pride flag emoji on her Instagram account, and new online posts have highlighted a woman believed to be Renee Good’s wife. In one video taken after the shooting, a distraught woman is seen sitting near the vehicle, wailing, “That’s my wife, I don’t know what to do!” AP reports that calls and messages to Good’s current partner received no response.
A profile picture posted to Pinterest shows Renee Good smiling and holding a young child against her cheek, along with posts about tattoos, hairstyles and home decorating.
Good had a daughter and her son from her first marriage, who are now ages 15 and 12. Her 6-year-old son was from her second marriage.
Ex-Husband Says Renee Good Was Not An Activist
Video taken by bystanders posted to social media shows an ICE agent approaching Renee Good’s car, demanding she open the door and grabbing the handle. When she begins to pull forward, a different ICE agent standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots into the vehicle at close range. Trump administration officials painted Good as a domestic terrorist who had attempted to ram federal agents with her car. However, Renee Good’s ex-husband said she was no activist and that he had never known her to participate in a protest of any kind.
The ex-husband asked not to be named out of concern for the safety of their children. He said Good had just dropped off her 6-year-old son at school on Wednesday. She was driving home with her current partner when they encountered a group of ICE agents on a snowy street in Minneapolis. Good and her partner had moved last year from Kansas City, Missouri.
Her ex-husband said she had primarily been a stay-at-home mom in recent years. She previously worked as a dental assistant and at a credit union. Additionally, he described her as a devoted Christian who participated in youth mission trips to Northern Ireland during her youth. She loved to sing, participating in a high school chorus and studying vocal performance in college. She studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia. Good won a prize in 2020 for one of her works, according to a post on the school’s English department Facebook page. Good also hosted a podcast with her second husband, who died in 2023.
Local To The Vice President: See What Officials Are Saying
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that there would be a federal investigation into the shooting. Noem said she believes it was justified. She again called the woman’s actions “domestic terrorism.”
“This vehicle was used to hit this officer,” Noem said, though videos don’t explicitly show that. “It was used as a weapon, and the officer feels as though his life was in jeopardy.”
The ICE officer has not been publicly identified. Noem said he was taken to a hospital after being hit by the vehicle and has since been discharged.
Meanwhile, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara gave no indication that the driver was trying to harm anyone when he described the shooting to reporters on Wednesday. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he had watched videos of the shooting that show it was avoidable. Frey also called for ICE agents to get the “fuck out” of his city, rejecting DHS claim of self-defense.
Drew Evans, head of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said Thursday that federal authorities have denied the state agency access to evidence in the case. This means they’ve barred the state from investigating the shooting alongside the FBI.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz demanded that state investigators be given a role. He told reporters that residents would otherwise have difficulty accepting the findings of federal law enforcement. However, Noem denied that Minnesota authorities were being shut out, saying: “They don’t have any jurisdiction in this investigation.”
Vice President JD Vance followed in President Trump’s judgment on Thursday. He said Thursday that the shooting was justified. He also said the officer who killed Good suffered serious injuries in June when he was dragged by another driver.
Court records say the officer got his arm stuck in a vehicle’s window as a driver fled arrest in Bloomington, Minnesota. The officer was dragged 100 yards (91 meters). He required 50 stitches afterward.
Vance said, “I can believe that her death is a tragedy, while also recognizing that it is a tragedy of her own making.”
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Associated Press writers Michael Biesecker and Jim Mustian contributed to this report via AP Newsroom.
