Who was Renee Nicole Good, woman killed in Minneapolis ICE shooting

City leaders person identified the pistillate killed during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement cognition successful Minneapolis connected Wednesday arsenic Renee Nicole Good, 37, arsenic national and section officials connection sharply antithetic accounts of the shooting.

The fatal shooting occurred during an ICE enforcement cognition successful southbound Minneapolis, according to the Department of Homeland Security, which said agents were attempting to marque arrests erstwhile Good tried to usage her conveyance arsenic a limb against officers, prompting a national cause to occurrence successful self-defense.

Good was pronounced dormant aft being struck by gunfire. The cause progressive has not been publically identified, and the incidental remains nether investigation.

Members of the Minneapolis City Council confirmed Good’s individuality successful a associated connection Wednesday, calling her "a subordinate of our community" and demanding that ICE permission the city.

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Members of instrumentality enforcement enactment the country pursuing a shooting by an ICE cause during national operations connected Jan. 7, 2026, successful Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty)

"This greeting an ICE cause changeable and killed Renee Nicole Good, a subordinate of our community," the connection said. "Anyone who kills idiosyncratic successful our metropolis deserves to beryllium arrested, investigated, and prosecuted to the fullest grade of the law."

The assembly members said they enactment Minneapolis’ migrant assemblage and accused national migration authorities of bringing "chaos and violence" to the city, vowing to enactment with authorities partners to support residents.

Who was Renee Nicole Good?

Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that her girl lived successful the Twin Cities with her spouse and that the household was notified of her decease precocious Wednesday morning. 

"That’s truthful stupid" that she was killed, Ganger told the outlet aft learning details of the incident. "She was astir apt terrified."

Ganger told the paper that her girl was not progressive successful protests against ICE agents and described Good arsenic "one of the kindest radical I’ve ever known," calling her compassionate and devoted to caring for others.

According to the Star Tribune, Good was antecedently joined to Timmy Ray Macklin Jr., who died successful 2023 astatine the property of 36. Macklin’s begetter told the outlet that the mates had a kid together, present 4 oregon 5, and said helium plans to question to attraction for the kid pursuing Good’s death.

‘Weaponize her vehicle’

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday evening, though, that Good tried to tally a instrumentality enforcement serviceman implicit with her vehicle.

The fatal shooting of Good, whom she did not name, was "preventable," Noem said, portion reiterating that ICE agents were carrying retired lawful enforcement operations astatine the clip of the incident.

Noem said ICE agents were conducting operations successful Minneapolis erstwhile 1 of their vehicles became stuck successful the snowfall owed to caller upwind conditions. As agents attempted to propulsion the conveyance free, she said they were harassed and blocked by what she described arsenic a radical of agitators.

According to Noem, agents approached Good’s conveyance aft she repeatedly blocked officers and impeded their work. She said ICE agents ordered Good to exit her conveyance and halt obstructing instrumentality enforcement, but she refused to comply.

"She past proceeded to weaponize her vehicle," Noem said, adding that Good attempted to tally implicit an officer.

Noem said the serviceman progressive was struck by the conveyance and transported to a hospital, wherever helium was treated and aboriginal released.

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Members of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office look connected arsenic radical stitchery adjacent the country of a shooting by an ICE cause during national instrumentality enforcement operations connected Jan. 7, 2026 successful Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The SUV that Good was driving astatine the clip of the shooting displayed Missouri licence plates, according to KSHB 41 News.

The outlet reported that it confirmed with the Missouri Department of Revenue that the conveyance was registered to Renee N. Good Macklin astatine an code successful Kansas City, Missouri. It was not instantly wide wherefore the conveyance was registered retired of state.

Noem again described the incidental arsenic an enactment of home coercion and said determination has been a emergence successful vehicle-ramming attacks against national officers nationwide successful caller weeks.

"This indispensable stop," she said.

Noem added that elected officials should denounce unit against instrumentality enforcement, arguing the shooting was the effect of escalating rhetoric targeting national officers.

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Fox News has learned from aggregate ICE sources that nary of the agents progressive successful the shooting successful Minneapolis were wearing assemblage cameras astatine the clip of the incident.

ICE has been gradually rolling retired body-worn cameras nationwide, including during caller high-profile arrests, but the squad progressive successful Wednesday’s enforcement cognition did not person assemblage cameras equipped, the sources said.

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The shooting comes amid heightened tensions betwixt national migration authorities and Minneapolis officials, aft DHS deployed thousands of further officers to the country successful caller days, sparking protests and backlash from metropolis leaders.

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send communicative tips to [email protected].