The victim of a fatal ICE shooting has been identified as a 37-year-old mother with a now-orphaned 6-year-old son.
Renee Nicole Good was identified by her mother, Donna Ganger, in an interview with the Star Tribune as the woman killed on a residential Minneapolis street on Wednesday.
“She was probably terrified,” Ganger told the outlet, before insisting her daughter is “not part of anything like that at all,” referring to protesters confronting ICE agents.
Good was previously married to Timmy Ray Macklin Jr., who died in 2023 at age 36. Macklin Jr.’s father, Timmy Ray Macklin Sr., told the outlet that the couple shared a 6-year-old son.
“There’s nobody else in his life,” Macklin Sr. told the Star Tribune. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come and get my grandchild.”
Officials have not identified the ICE agent who fired three shots into her vehicle, killing her. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as President Donald Trump, accused Good of trying to run over multiple ICE agents before she was gunned down—but video disputes their account.
An eyewitness to the shooting told HuffPost that Good was “obviously scared” and was attempting to leave the scene.
“The ICE agents got out of their vehicles and were screaming at her to ‘move, move, move,’” 39-year-old Emily Heller told the outlet. “She wasn’t moving at first, and then they came over to her side of the car and tried to open the door, I assume to drag her out.”
“She was obviously scared — she was going to leave,” Heller continued. “She reversed a little bit and then started to move forward. And as she was starting to move forward, one of the ICE agents stood in front of her car, leaned across her hood and then fired three or four shots right into, it seemed like, her face.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the incident an “act of domestic terrorism” on Good’s part, deflecting criticism away from the ICE agent who shot and killed her.
“What happened was our ICE officers were out on an enforcement action. They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis,” Noem said, despite no videos of the shooting yet showing evidence that ICE agents were stuck in the snow.
President Donald Trump corroborated Noem’s claims, saying Good was “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer.”
The president said the officer, who is shown in videos of the incident walking after the car after shooting into it, was “now recovering in the hospital” and that it was “hard to believe he is alive.”
Border czar Tom Homan, for his part, played it safe when pressed on the shooting by CBS Evening News' Tony Dokoupil.
“I’m not going to make a judgment call on one video when there’s a hundred videos out there. I wasn’t on the scene. I’m not an officer that may have body cam video,” Homan said. “It’d be unprofessional to comment on what I think happened in that situation. Let the investigation play out and hold people accountable based on the investigation.”
Homan nonetheless insisted that federal agents have not used excessive force in carrying out the Trump administration’s hardline immigration agenda.
“I trust that men and women of ICE and Border Patrol are well-trained,” he said.
The administration is already facing heat over the shooting, with demonstrators pouring out onto the streets of Minneapolis on Wednesday to protest the shocking killing, many of whom were met by federal agents wielding tear gas and pepper spray.
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told the Daily Beast: “Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.
“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.
“The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. Thankfully, the ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries.
“This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement who are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats.
“This is an evolving situation, and we will give the public more information as soon as it becomes available.”
