Mohan Sinha
12 Jan 2026, 11:42 GMT+10
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota: Controversy raged over the shooting at the wheel by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer of the 37-year-old mother of three who had dropped off her youngest child at an elementary school in Minneapolis.
Trump administration officials claimed Renee Good was a domestic terrorist who attempted to ram federal agents with her Honda Pilot, but members of her family, friends, and neighbors said she was gentle and kind. Good was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado who had apparently never been charged with anything beyond a single traffic ticket.
A video taken by bystanders 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.
Ten seconds later, she was dead in her car.
In another video taken immediately after the shooting, a distraught woman is seen sitting near the vehicle, wailing, "That's my wife, I don't know what to do!"
Later that day, dozens of people gathered on the one-way street where Good was killed. They blocked the road with steel drums filled with burning wood to keep warm as freezing rain fell. People stopped to leave flowers and a handmade cross at a small memorial.
Good's ex-husband said she was not an activist and had never taken part in protests. He said she was simply on her way home when she came across ICE agents on the snowy street.
She was described as a devoted Christian who, when she was younger, joined youth mission trips to Northern Ireland. She loved singing and was part of a school choir.
Her ex-husband said she had mostly been a stay-at-home mother in recent years but had earlier worked as a dental assistant and at a credit union.
Good had two children, ages 15 and 12, from her first marriage, and a 6-year-old son from her second marriage.
Good, her wife, and her six-year-old son had recently moved to Minneapolis from Kansas City, Missouri. They settled on a quiet residential street with older homes and small apartment buildings, some still displaying pride flags and holiday lights.
State and local officials, along with protesters, rejected the Trump administration's account of the shooting. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said video of the incident shows the self-defense claim was "garbage."
A day after the fatal shooting, while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not publicly name the officer involved, court records from an old case identified the injured officer as Jonathan Ross. Noem referred to an incident last June in which the same officer was injured after being dragged by a fleeing vehicle.
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