{"id":423125,"date":"2026-01-22T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423125\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:27:13","slug":"renee-good-was-shot-three-times-autopsy-into-minneapolis-ice-killing-finds-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423125\/","title":{"rendered":"Renee Good was shot three times, autopsy into Minneapolis ICE killing finds | Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A private autopsy has determined that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minnesota-ice-shooting\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Renee Good<\/a>, the unarmed US citizen and mother killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis earlier this month, was shot three times, in her forearm, breast and head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The independent postmortem was commissioned by lawyers in Chicago representing Good\u2019s family, and its findings released late on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/minneapolis-ice-shooting-independent-autopsy-renee-good-released-romanucci-blandin-law-firm-civil-investigation\/18445863\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The autopsy, described as preliminary, found three clear gunshots on the 37-year-old\u2019s body, two of which were not immediately life-threatening. One struck her left forearm, and another entered her body through her right breast, but missed major organs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A third shot struck her on the left side of her head near her temple then exited on the right side of her head, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/21\/us\/renee-good-private-autopsy.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times reported<\/a>. The newspaper said there was also a graze wound \u201cconsistent with a firearm injury, but with no penetration\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Good family\u2019s attorneys, Romanucci and Blandin, declined to release the full report, but said it would continue \u201cto gather evidence\u201d in connection with her death as it pursued what it said was a civil investigation, the Times said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The findings align with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/16\/minnesota-ice-shooting-police-reports\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">incident reports<\/a>, including transcripts of 911 calls, into the 7 January shooting, which chronicled two \u201capparent gunshot wounds\u201d to the right side of her chest, and a \u201cpossible gunshot wound with protruding tissue on the left side of the patient\u2019s head\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The death of Good, who relatives said was acting as a legal observer of a surge of Immigration and Enforcement agency (ICE) activity in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minneapolis\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minneapolis<\/a>, has raised tensions in the Minnesota city and sparked a fight between the Trump administration and local officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The White House and homeland security department have repeatedly insisted Good was a \u201cdomestic terrorist\u201d who aimed her car at the ICE agent. The officer was forced to fire in self-defense, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Multiple video clips of the encounter, however, show that Good was steering away from the agent as she tried to drive away, and at least two of the shots were fired from the side. State officials are angry that they have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/10\/fbi-investigation-minneapolis-ice-shooting-renee-nicole-good\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cut out<\/a> of an FBI inquiry, and that federal authorities are looking into Good\u2019s widow and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/16\/us-doj-minnesota-tim-walz-jacob-frey-inquiry\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Minnesota leaders<\/a> including the governor, Tim Walz, and the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, and not the officer who killed her, Jonathan Ross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Separately, the justice department has said available video evidence \u201ccleared\u201d Ross, and that no criminal investigation was taking place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe Department of Justice doesn\u2019t just stand up and investigate because some congressman thinks we should, because some governor thinks that we should,\u201d Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/18\/justice-department-ice-renee-good-george-floyd-minneapolis\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Fox News<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The lack of an investigation led a wave of federal prosecutors to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/13\/doj-attorneys-resign-minneapolis-ice-shooting\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quit in protest<\/a>. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has amplified its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/08\/jd-vance-ice-agent-killing-minneapolis-trump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blaming of the victim<\/a>, and support for an escalation of ICE enforcement activities, which have led to sometimes violent skirmishes with protesters and the arrests of US citizens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/21\/ice-arrests-five-year-old-boy-minnesota\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and children<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On Thursday, the vice-president, JD Vance, is expected in Minneapolis and will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/vance-heads-minneapolis-amid-tension-over-ice-crackdown-2026-01-22\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speak in defense<\/a> of Donald Trump\u2019s decision to send 3,000 federal law enforcement officers to the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A private autopsy has determined that Renee Good, the unarmed US citizen and mother killed by a federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-423125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}