‘I Heard 3 Pops’ and Then the Crash: Neighbor Recounts Horror of Renee Good’s Killing

“Right away, I knew it was gunfire,” Lynette Reini-Grandell, 65, tells PEOPLE, adding that she then heard the sound of Good’s car crashing into a vehicle and a utility pole across the street

Renee Nicole Good.Credit : ODU English Department Facebook

A neighbor remembers the moment Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis.

Lynette Reini-Grandell, 65, was recording ICE activity in the area when she crossed the street and heard gunshots on Wednesday, Jan. 7.

“When I got pretty much to the middle of the street, I heard three pops of the gun,” she tells PEOPLE. She says at the time, she was not looking toward the vehicle and cars had blocked her view.

“Right away, I knew it was gunfire,” she adds, saying she then heard the sound of Good’s car crashing into another vehicle and a utility pole across the street.

The shooting triggered panic among bystanders, Reini-Grandell recalls.

“So, I started screaming,” she tells PEOPLE. “The people around me started screaming. People were screaming, ‘You shot her’ [and] ‘You killed her.'”

Reini-Grandell says the scene had been crowded but relatively calm before the shooting.

“It had been congested, but very quiet other than people blowing their whistles and yelling at ICE to get out of our city,” she says. “But this was just crazy.”

She says neighbors tried to reach Good’s car to help, but ICE officers blocked them.

A vigil for Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7, 2025 in Oakland, California.Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty

“The ICE officers were now between us and her car and they were pushing us back,” Reini-Grandell says, adding that officers had their guns and gas canisters out and were yelling that it was a crime scene. She and others responded by telling them they made it one and that “somebody had to help her.”

Good, 37, had just dropped her 6-year-old child off at school before the deadly encounter with federal immigration agents, her ex-husband told The Associated Press.  Bystander video footage that has since gone viral captured a masked federal agent fire multiple shots into Good’s vehicle, which then drove up the street before slamming into the back of another car.

Good suffered gunshot wounds to the head, ABC News reported, citing city officials. She was transported to a local hospital and pronounced dead.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Good had been “stalking and impeding” ICE agents that day, and accused her of “domestic terrorism.” President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have also placed blame on Good for the shooting.

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.

“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother, Donna 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.”