Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother and Minneapolis resident, has been identified by officials as the woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Videos of the incident where Good is seen in her maroon Honda SUV as ICE agents confronted her have gone viral and sparked outcry from people around the country who say that Good was unnecessarily killed.
According to Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, Good was allegedly «attempting to run over our law enforcement officers» with her car when an ICE officer fatally shot her.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have disputed the federal government’s claims surrounding what led up to the shooting, saying video of the incident shows the agent’s actions were not self-defense.
Information about Good, along with messages of sympathy, has been pouring out since the shooting.
Good was a 2020 graduate from Old Dominion University in Virginia, according to the school’s president, Brian Hemphill, who said it is «with great sadness that Old Dominion University mourns the loss of one of our own.»
She graduated from the College of Arts and Letters with a degree in English, according to Hemphill.
«May Renee’s life be a reminder of what unites us: freedom, love, and peace,» he said in a statement. «My hope is for compassion, healing, and reflection at a time that is becoming one of the darkest and most uncertain periods in our nation’s history.»
Gov. Tim Walz said that Good is survived by a 6-year-old child and a wife, sayinghe offers his «deepest sympathies» to her family «on an unimaginable tragedy.»
Good was also the mother of two other children, but a relative told the Minneapolis Star Tribune they believed the kids «lived with her extended family.»
DHS, along with President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has called the agent’s actions «self-defense» and said he followed ICE training.
Noem said during a press conference on Wednesday that Good was using her car as a «deadly weapon» and said it was an «act of domestic terrorism.»
Minneapolis police said preliminary information indicates that she was in her car and blocking the road.
«At some point, a federal law enforcement officer approached her on foot, and the vehicle began to drive off,» police said. «At least two shots were fired the vehicle then crashed on the side of the roadway.»
«There is nothing to indicate that this woman was the target of any law enforcement investigation or activity,» police added.
Good had gunshot wounds to the head and was transported to an area hospital, where she died, according to city officials.
Following the shooting, a large crowd gathered in the area, which is less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed in May 2020.
Gov. Walz said he has issued a «warning order» to prepare the Minnesota National Guard, saying there are soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed «if necessary,» while urging «peaceful resistance.»
The widow of Renee Nicole Good, who was filmed sobbing “it’s my fault” after her partner was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, is a handywoman who recently moved the family to the city, The Post can reveal.
Rebecca Good, 40, was outside the car when Renee drove toward an ICE officer, who opened fire on Wednesday — shooting the mom of three in the head and killing her.
Rebecca Good and her wife previously lived in Kansas City, Missouri, where they lived in the Waldo neighborhood for about two years.
But they decided to leave the country after President Trump was re-elected in 2024, and moved to Canada for several months before settling in Minneapolis, a former Missouri neighbor told KMBC.
“A neighbor who, you know, is not a terrorist. Not an extremist. That was just a mom who loved her kids, loved her spouse,” another neighbor, Joan Rose, told the outlet.
The Goods were raising Renee’s 6-year-old son together.
The Department of Homeland Security accused 37-year-old Renee of being a “domestic terrorist” who “weaponized” her car to try to kill ICE officers.
Footage from the incident captured her SUV idling across a residential street where ICE agents were conducting an immigration operation, when an officer approached her door and ordered her out.
She reversed briefly, then began to drive while turning to her right — prompting an agent who had moved in front of the car to jump out of the way and fire three shots into the windshield and then the window as it passed, killing her.
All the while, Rebecca had been outside the car and apparently confronting the ICE agents. She didn’t seem to realize her wife had been hurt until their SUV accelerated away and slammed into a car down the block.
Rebecca was then seen distraught and apparently crying that she’d been the one who asked her wife to go out and protest the ICE operations.
“I made her come down here; it’s my fault,” Rebecca said, her face covered in blood after having attempted to help Renee. “They just shot my wife.”
“They shot her in the head. I have a 6-year-old in school,” Rebecca said.
The couple was allegedly part of a group that had been “stalking and impeding” ICE officers throughout the day, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said.
But Renee’s mother insisted that didn’t sound like her daughter at all, telling the Star Tribune she was never “part of anything like that at all.”
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” said her mother, Donna Ganger. “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.”
Renee described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom,” originally from Colorado, on her social media.
She was previously married to a comedian who died in 2023, and the couple had a son, a 6-year-old, together.
That child has now been left an orphan after Renee’s death on Wednesday.
“There’s nobody else in his life,” the boy’s grandfather, Timmy Ray Mackline Sr., told the Tribune.
“I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come and get my grandchild.”