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The woman\u00a0shot and killed\u00a0by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in\u00a0Minneapolis<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n In social media accounts, Good described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom.” She said she was currently \u201cexperiencing Minneapolis,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n WATCH | What we know about Renee Nicole Good: What we know about the woman who was shot by ICE<\/p>\n Protests have erupted over the killing of 37-year-old Renee Good, who was shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday.<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n In another video taken after\u00a0the shooting, a distraught woman is seen sitting near the vehicle, wailing, “That\u2019s my wife, I don\u2019t know what to do!” <\/p>\n Calls and messages to Good\u2019s current partner received no response.<\/p>\n WATCH | Breaking down the moment an ICE agent shot Good: Breaking down the moment an ICE agent fatally shot a Minnesota woman | Hanomansing Tonight<\/p>\n A woman was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis Wednesday, in the Trump administration\u2019s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city. Host Ian Hanomansing breaks down the footage.Family describes her as creative, passionate<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s English department Facebook page. <\/p>\n “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. <\/p>\n She also hosted a podcast with her second husband, who died in 2023.<\/p>\n In a statement<\/a>, 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.”<\/p>\n “May Renee\u2019s life be a reminder of what unites us: freedom, love, and peace.” <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n ‘Loved her kids’<\/p>\n Donna Ganger, her mother, told the Minnesota Star Tribune<\/a> the family was notified of the death late Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n “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. <\/p>\n \u201cShe was extremely compassionate. She\u2019s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate.”<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n Good and her family were “lovely,” a former neighbour in Kansas told\u00a0CNN affiliates KCTV<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0KMBC.<\/a> <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767964272_9_default.jpg\")
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A picture is displayed at a makeshift memorial for Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed on Wednesday by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis. (Charly Triballeau\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767964274_473_default.jpg\")
A makeshift memorial is seen for Good on Thursday in Minneapolis. (Charly Triballeau\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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