This picture of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed on Wednesday by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, was posted to her mother's Facebook page.

This picture of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed on Wednesday by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, was posted to her mother’s Facebook page. (Donna Ganger/Facebook)

Photo:  (Donna Ganger/Facebook)

 

The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis (new window) on Wednesday was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota.

She was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado and appears to never have been charged with anything involving law enforcement beyond a traffic ticket.

In social media accounts, Good described herself as a poet and writer and wife and mom. She said she was currently experiencing Minneapolis, displaying a pride flag emoji on her Instagram account. A profile picture posted to Pinterest shows her smiling and holding a young child against her cheek, along with posts about tattoos, hairstyles and home decorating

Her ex-husband, who asked not to be named out of concern for the safety of their children, said Good had just dropped off her six-year-old son at school on Wednesday and was driving home with her current partner when they encountered a group of ICE agents on a snowy street in Minneapolis, where they had moved last year from Kansas City, Mo.

Video taken by bystanders and posted to social media shows an officer approaching her car, demanding she open the door and grabbing the handle. When she begins to pull forward, a different ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots into the vehicle at close range.

In another video taken after the shooting, a distraught woman is seen sitting near the vehicle, wailing, That’s my wife, I don’t know what to do!

Calls and messages to Good’s current partner received no response.

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Family describes her as creative, passionate

Trump administration officials painted Good as a domestic terrorist who had attempted to ram federal agents with her car. Her ex-husband said she was no activist and that he had never known her to participate in a protest of any kind.

He described her as a devoted Christian who took part in youth mission trips to Northern Ireland when she was younger. She loved to sing, participating in a choir in high school and studying vocal performance in college

She studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia and won a prize in 2020 for one of her works, according to a post on the school’s English department Facebook page.

When she is not writing, reading, or talking about writing, she has movie marathons and makes messy art with her daughter and two sons, the post said.

She also hosted a podcast with her second husband, who died in 2023.

In a statement (new window), Old Dominion University president Brian O. Hemphill wrote that Good’s death is yet another clear example that fear and violence have sadly become commonplace in our nation.
A makeshift memorial is seen for Good on Wednesday in Minneapolis.

A makeshift memorial is seen for Good on Wednesday in Minneapolis.

Photo: Radio-Canada / Louis Blouin

May Renee’s life be a reminder of what unites us: freedom, love, and peace.

Good had a daughter and a son from her first marriage, who are now 15 and 12. Her six-year-old son was from her second marriage. Her ex-husband said she had primarily been a stay-at-home mom in recent years but had previously worked as a dental assistant and at a credit union.

‘Loved her kids’

Donna Ganger, her mother, told the Minnesota Star Tribune (new window) the family was notified of the death late Wednesday morning.

She was an amazing human being, Ganger told the newspaper, adding she was not part of anything like that at all, referring to protests against ICE.

She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate.

Public records show Good had recently lived in Kansas City, where she and another woman with the same home address had started a business last year called B. Good Handywork.

Good and her family were lovely, a former neighbour in Kansas told CNN affiliates KCTV (new window) and KMBC. (new window)

She was a neighbour who, you know, is not a terrorist. Not an extremist, Joan Rose told KMBC, according to CNN (new window).

“That was just a mom who loved her kids, loved her spouse.”

A neighbour in Minneapolis, Mary Radford, told the Star Tribune she would miss seeing the family.

It’s a beautiful family. They have a son. He’s very sweet. He loves our dog. He always has to go run up and pet and play with her, Radford said. They’re always outside playing.

An online fundraiser for Good’s spouse and son had raised more than $600,000 US by Thursday afternoon.

Renee was pure sunshine, pure love. She will be desperately missed, wrote crowdfunding organizer Mattie Weiss.

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The Associated Press with files from CBC News and Reuters