Renee Good, 37, was shot three times and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, as she drove away from the law enforcement agent. A new video, from the shooter's perspective, sheds light on her last moments alive
09:29, 11 Jan 2026Updated 09:39, 11 Jan 2026
Renee Good had wrapped up warm for a frigid January day before she jumped in her car to take her son to school - but she would never make it home. The mum-of-three, who described herself as a "poet and writer," had only recently moved to Minneapolis. That morning, she encountered a group of ICE agents during an immigration raid.
Wearing a red hoodie and a woollen hat to keep the chill at bay, the 37-year-old dropped her son at a nearby school, before getting back into her maroon Honda Pilot. It might have started out as a normal day, but the tragic events that followed have sent shockwaves not only across the city of Minneapolis, but the whole of America.
Renee was shot three times in her car by an masked ICE agent. A new video, which shows the incident from the law enforcement officer's perspective, debunks claims made by Trump and Vice President JD Vance that he was acting in self defence. The shooting took place only around a mile away from another murder that rocked the US, that of George Floyd, who has killed by a police officer in 2020 - an incident which sparked protests across the country.
The new video sees Renee speaking with the ICE agent before the shooting unfolded. The mum had partially blocked the road with her car, the agent got out of his own vehicle, and walked around the Honda Pilot, capturing her registration number and her face in his footage.
Renee had rolled down her window and she spoke to the officer. "That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you," she was heard saying. As this goes on, someone who is believed to be Renee's partner walked toward the officer, filming him in turn on her own phone.
"We don't change our plates every morning," Renee then said to the officer. "They'll still be the same plates when you come talk to us later. That's fine. US citizen and former f***ing veteran. Former Navy veteran, you want to come at us?"
At one stage, she reversed her vehicle, allowing other cars to get past. The person who was standing outside the car was then heard saying, "I say you go get yourselves some lunch, big boy."
On the far side of Renee's vehicle, more officers approached, who began to demand she exit her Honda. "Get out of the car," they are heard saying. "Get out of the f***ing car."
At this stage, the video shows that Renee began to turn her steering wheel to the right, to drive around the officer who was standing in front of it. The camera was then pointed away, but the officer can be heard saying "whoa".
As analysed by the Mirror, the new footage, from the shooter's perspective, also shows he changed hands on the phone he was using to film the incident, leaving his right hand free to draw his weapon ten seconds later.
Then, three shots rang out. Renee's car moved quickly towards parked cars nearby, as the officer said: "F***ing b**ch". The mum-of-three had lost her life.
The video seems to confirm that Renee had parked her car across the way to try and block the ICE agents from conducting their work - but she, nor the other person outside the car, became aggressive towards them.
A medic tried to go and treat Renee after the shooting, but ICE agents seem to block their access. The medic is reported to have asked officers "can I go check a pulse?" However it is alleged officers stopped him and ordered him to "back up" before telling him "I don't care" after he told them: "I'm a physician".
One of the ICE agents allegedly told the man Emergency Medical Services were on the way and that they had their own medics on scene. The exchange was apparently caught on video, before a woman was heard shouting, "Where are they?". She was told to relax, to which she replied: "How can I relax when you just killed my f****** neighbor?"
The person who seems to be Renee's partner was reported to have been sitting on the icy ground nearby, crying and covered in blood. "I made her come here, it's my fault," she, said. "They shot her in the head."
The White House have claimed that Renee was trying to run over the officer, and so they acted in self defence, and JD Vance has argued the new video confirms his claims that she was trying to injure the officer. However, the footage shows her clearly trying to steer around him, and therefore not trying to run him over.
Becca Good, Renee's partner, said in a heartbreaking tribute to Renee, that she "was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole".
Becca also said that "kindness radiated out" of Renee and that she "literally sparkled". "On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbours. We had whistles. They had guns," the statement said.
Renee's ex-husband has also insisted that she was not an activist and that he had never known her to participate in any protests. 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 high school chorus and studying vocal performance in college.
The mum 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, reports the Associated Press. She also hosted a podcast with her second husband, who died in 2023.
She has a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son from her first marriage. Her 6-year-old son was from her second marriage, the Mirror US reports. Renee's ex-husband said she had primarily been a stay-at-home mum in recent years, but had previously worked as a dental assistant and at a credit union.
Donna Ganger, Renee's mother, told the Minnesota Star Tribune: "Renee was one of the kindest people I've ever known. She was extremely compassionate. She's taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving, and affectionate. She was an amazing human being."
In a horrifying twist, Elon Musk's Grok AI on his platform X - formerly known as Twitter - was used to "undress" images of Renee's body seemingly slumped over the car after the shooting. Grok altered the distressing image by putting Renee's body in a bikini, which was then viewed more than 386,000 times on the social media app X/ Twitter.
The images - which saw the bot respond chattily to those who comment positively on the vile image - caused shock amongst most users. "Imagine someone doing this to a photo of your mother, sister or daughter after they were killed. Still funny? No? Then delete your comment and do better." Another added: "You're an evil person. F*** you for this." A third said: "Holy f****** s***, this might make me become anti-AI. What the f*** is wrong with you."
Protests have broken out in cities in towns across the US after Renee's killing, while other immigration enforcement officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon. Despite public uproar, Trump's administration has defended the shootings, claiming they were both acts of self-defence against drivers who were "weaponising" their vehicles.
The Trump administration has deployed thousands of federal officers to Minnesota as part of an expanded enforcement drive, with more than 2,000 personnel involved. Some of those officers were reassigned after being abruptly withdrawn from Louisiana, where they had been involved in a separate operation launched last month that was due to run until February.