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The woman shot and shot A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was killed in Minneapolis On Wednesday was Renee Nicole McLean Good, a 37-year-old mother who recently moved to Minnesota.
She was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado and apparently has never been charged with law enforcement beyond a traffic ticket.
On social media, Good describes herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mother.” “She’s experiencing Minneapolis,” she says, posting a Pride flag emoji on her Instagram account. A profile picture posted on Pinterest shows her holding a smiling little girl on her cheek, along with posts about tattoos, hairstyles and home decor.
Her ex-husband, who asked not to be named out of concern for their children’s safety, said Goode was driving her six-year-old son home from school Wednesday with her current partner on a snowy road in Minneapolis with ICE agents relocated from Kansas City last year.
Video captured by onlookers and posted on social media shows an officer approaching her car, opening the door and grabbing the handle. As she begins to pull over, another ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle draws his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots into the vehicle at close range.
Another video taken later ShootA worried woman sitting next to the vehicle said, “It’s my wife, I don’t know what to do!”
Calls and messages to Good’s current partner went unanswered.
A woman was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on a major U.S. city. Host Ian Hanomansing breaks down the footage.
Family describes her as creative, passionate.
Trump administration officials have painted Gooden as a “domestic terrorist” who tried to run over federal agents in her car. Her ex-husband said she was no activist and never knew her to participate in any kind of protest.
He described her as a devout Christian who participated in youth mission trips to Northern Ireland when she was young. She loved singing, participating in a choir in high school and studying vocal performance in college.
She studied creative writing at Virginia Old Dominion University and won an award for one of her works in 2020, according to a post on the school’s English department’s Facebook page. She co-hosted a podcast with her second husband, who died in 2023.
In the statement, Old Dominion University President Brian O. Hemphill He wrote that it is a good deathIt is another clear example of how fear and violence are becoming more common in our country.
“May Rene’s life remind us of what unites us: freedom, love and peace.
Good had a daughter and a son from her first marriage. These are 15 and 12. Her six-year-old son is from her second marriage. She said her ex-husband had been primarily a stay-at-home mom in recent years, but previously worked as a dental assistant and at a credit union.
‘She loves her children.’
Donna Ganger said her mother Minnesota Star Tribune The family was notified of the death on Wednesday morning.
Ganger told the newspaper, “She was a no-nonsense person, referring to the protests against ICE, she’s not a part of anything like that.”
She was very compassionate. She had cared for people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and loving.
Public records show Good most recently lived in Kansas City, where she and another woman with the same home address started a business last year called B. Good Handywork.
Good and her family were “lovely,” said a former neighbor in Kansas. CNN affiliate KCTV And KMBC
“She was a neighbor, you know, not a terrorist. Not an extremist,” Joanne Rose told KMBC. For CNN. “She was a mother who loved her children, who loved her spouse.”
An online fundraiser for Good Spouse and Child had raised more than $520,000 as of Thursday morning.
“Renee was pure sunshine, pure love. She will be greatly missed,” he wrote Public gathering Edited by Matt Weiss.