The 37-year-old woman who was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday has been identified by local leaders and her family.
The Minneapolis City Council and the woman’s family identified her as Renee Nicole Good, a mother who was “out caring for her neighbors.”
The Associated Press previously reported that the woman was shot during a traffic stop south of downtown Minneapolis, where federal agents had recently launched an operation.
Minneapolis mayor: ICE officer’s killing of motorist was ‘reckless,’ not self-defense
Videos from bystanders showed an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle. The Honda Pilot begins to pull forward and 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, jumping back as the vehicle moves toward him.
It was not clear from the videos if the vehicle made contact with the officer. The SUV then sped into two cars parked on a curb nearby before crashing to a stop. Witnesses screamed obscenities, expressing shock at what they’d seen.
After the shooting, emergency medical technicians tried to administer aid to the woman.
A Minneapolis police officer stands guard while emergency medical technicians administer aid to a person who was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026.
Meanwhile, blood could be seen in the car, which had stuffed animals in the passenger seat area.
“She was driving away and they killed her,” resident Lynette Reini-Grandell, who was outdoors recording video on her phone, told The Associated Press.
“She was probably terrified,” Donna Ganger, Good’s mother, told the Minnesota Star Tribune. She went on to describe her daughter as “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” who was “not part of anything like [protests challenging ICE agents] at all.”
Good and her husband, who passed away in 2023, shared a child, family told the Star Tribune.
The vehicle she was driving was registered to an address in Kansas City, Missouri, Nexstar’s WDAF confirmed. It’s not clear if Good owned the vehicle.
“Renee was a resident of our city who was out caring for her neighbors this morning and her life was taken today at the hands of the federal government,” the city council said in a statement. “Anyone who kills someone in our city deserves to be arrested, investigated, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
The statement went on to echo remarks from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, calling for ICE to leave the city “immediately.”
“They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense,” Frey said earlier in the day about the response from federal authorities. “Having seen the video myself, I wanna tell everybody directly, that is bulls—.”
President Trump called the clip of the shooting “a horrible thing to watch.”
“The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
