Protesters gather in Minneapolis after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good fatally shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minnesota, United States on January 8, 2026

Renee Nicole Good.Credit : Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty

A witness to the killing of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis says agents kept bystanders who wanted to help her away by drawing their weapons in the chaotic aftermath of the fatal shooting.

Venus de Mars tells PEOPLE that the tense scene did not ease after the shots were fired, describing what she saw as a heavy, military‑style presence, about two dozen ICE vehicles and growing frustration among onlookers on Wednesday, Jan. 7.

“People were just incensed that ICE had kept assistance away from her using weapons,” she says. “So there was a lot of people who were there that tried to run over to help her, that were venting that frustration directly at the ICE agents who were getting out of their car.”

de Mars says she got to the scene when EMTs were performing CPR on Good and that it took about 15 minutes or so for an ambulance to get through the crowded scene.

“I could tell that she hadn’t made it,” de Mars tells PEOPLE. “You know, [when] somebody is shot, you would use bandages, you’d be trying to stop the bleeding. You wouldn’t be doing CPR on somebody. And then after a minute, and then when the ambulance drives away quietly without a siren, I knew she was gone.”

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Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was shot by an agent after a group of people allegedly started blocking officials during an immigration enforcement operation in the city.

The Department of Homeland Security has accused Good of “weaponiz[ing] her vehicle” in an “act of domestic terrorism,” per a post on X. Minnesota officials have refuted that claim, with the mayor of Minneapolis calling it “bulls—.”

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The agent who fatally shot Good has since been identified as Jonathan Ross, the Minnesota Star Tribune first reported. It’s unclear if he is facing any criminal charges at this time. An investigation is ongoing.

At a news conference on Thursday, Jan. 8, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that the agent had been treated at a hospital and released. Bystander videos apparently showed the officer walking around after shooting Good, and then getting into a car and leaving the scene.