The woman gunned down by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has been identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who described herself as a mother, a wife and a poet.

 

 

Good was identified by her mom hours after she was shot and killed when she clipped an ICE agent with her car during a protest against the federal agents, the Star Tribune reported.

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

Renee Nicole Good
Renee Nicole Good was identified as the woman fatally shot by ICE in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2025.Facebook/ODU English Department

Collage of three Polaroid photos of Renee Nicole Good with her partner.
Good lived in the Twin Cities with her partner, according to her mother Donna Granger.Instagram/@renee.n.good
Video appeared to show her Honda Pilot making contact with an ICE agent as he opened fire. President Trump and other officials have said Good’s killing was justified as the officer was acting in self-defense.

Her mom added: “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.”

 

 

“She was probably terrified,” Ganger added, saying the circumstances of the death were “so stupid.”

Good was the mom of a 6-year-old boy and had recently moved to the neighborhood with her wife and son, according to her distraught spouse and a neighbor who spoke to the Tribune. She was killed just blocks away from her home, the outlet reported.

Her young son was left an orphan by the shooting, according to his shaken grandfather.

The child’s father, a comedian Good was previously married to, died in 2023, also at age 37.

“There’s nobody else in his life,” the boy’s paternal grandfather told the local publication, adding he’d do whatever it takes “to come and get my grandchild.”

In addition to being a mom, Good was a “writer and poet” who graduated from Old Dominion University, where she studied creative writing. She was originally from Colorado Springs.

Federal Agents on a snowy street in Minneapolis, with one agent pulling a person out of a maroon SUV.
An ICE agent approaching the vehicle moments before the shooting.X/@maxnesterak
“Wife and mom and sh–ty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis,” read her Instagram bio, which was accompanied by a pride flag and she/her pronouns.

She was killed in a middle-class neighborhood in south Minneapolis where ICE agents were carrying out an immigration operation Wednesday.

Good recently moved to the neighborhood with her partner and lived just a few blocks away from where she was fatally shot, the outlet reported.

 

 

Law enforcement officers surrounding vehicles on a snowy street.
The ICE agent fires shots as the car drives forward.X/@maxnesterak

A person surrounded by a red circle is captured on video allegedly being shot by Federal Agents during an attempt to flee ICE in South Uptown, Minneapolis.
An alternate angle of the shooting in Minneapolis.X
Mary Radford, 27, lives next door to Good and told the outlet that she always had “wonderful conversations” with the “beautiful family,” even though they were still relatively new to the community.

“We’re going to miss them – forever. It is so painful to think about how [Good’s son] is gonna fare in his life. And I just can’t even imagine what the family is going through,” Radford told the outlet.

“I wish I could have known her more,” she added.

Good was among several people who allegedly blocked the street with their vehicles to prevent the agents from moving, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Agents got out of their blocked truck and ordered the woman to move her SUV, at which point she sped toward one of the officers, pushing him with her vehicle, feds alleged. As he spun toward the driver’s seat window, he fired three shots into the car, footage from numerous angles shows

Police and emergency personnel on a snowy street in Minneapolis, with an overturned car and a white sedan with an open door.
The scene of the shooting after the Honda Pilot crashed.Scootercaster/FreedomNewsTV

A deployed airbag and blood stains in a crashed vehicle at a shooting scene, with a blurred foreground of a person in tactical gear.
Blood seen on an airbag from inside Good’s car.AP

A bullet hole in the windshield of a car behind police tape.
At least three bullets were fired in the altercation. The victim was shot in the head and declared dead.REUTERS

A Minneapolis police officer stands guard while emergency medical technicians administer aid to a person shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.
Good receiving medical attention from first responders after the shooting.AP
She was shot at least once in the head, and later pronounced dead at the hospital.

The Department of Homeland Security called her a domestic terrorist who attempted to kill federal agents.

“One of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin wrote on X.