{"id":196309,"date":"2026-01-09T20:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/woman-fatally-shot-by-ice-officer-remembered-as-one-of-the-kindest-people-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T20:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:37:47","slug":"woman-fatally-shot-by-ice-officer-remembered-as-one-of-the-kindest-people-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/woman-fatally-shot-by-ice-officer-remembered-as-one-of-the-kindest-people-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman fatally shot by ICE officer remembered as 'one of the kindest people' – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The woman fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday<\/a> has been identified as Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother and U.S. citizen.
The Minnesota Star Tribune spoke to her mother, Donna Ganger, who called her \u201cone of the kindest people I\u2019ve ever known.\u201d
\u201cShe was extremely compassionate,” Ganger told the Tribune<\/a>. \u201cShe\u2019s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.\u201d
The Minneapolis City Council described Good in a joint statement as a resident who was out \u201ccaring for her neighbors\u201d when she was killed.
In a separate statement, Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., said she was \u201cheartbroken and angry\u201d about the death of Good, whom she called \u201ca U.S. citizen, a mother, and a Twin Cities resident.\u201d
A relative said the family is mourning her death and will release a statement when appropriate.
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Court documents filed in 2023 show that Good was the mother of three children. At the time, two of the children were living in Colorado and one in Missouri.
A woman who said she lived across the street from Good and her partner in Kansas City described the pair as quiet homebodies who lived with a young son and didn\u2019t appear to be activists.
\u201cI can\u2019t see this having been like a premeditated thing on their part, and I think it\u2019s just senseless,\u201d Jennifer Ferguson, who said she lived across the street from the couple for a year and a half, told NBC News.
\u201cI just pray that we don\u2019t have more violence over it,\u201d said Ferguson, 43.
A friend of Good’s partner told NBC News that the couple traveled often, living in Canada for a period of time after they left Kansas City in 2024 and moving to Minneapolis last summer.
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said she was shot after people began blocking officers during an immigration-related operation in the city.
At a news conference Wednesday night, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said the woman ignored commands to get out of the car she was driving and tried to run over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in an \u201cattempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents.\u201d That officer was the one who shot the woman, Noem said.
The officer was struck by the vehicle and treated at a hospital before being released, Noem said. She declined to answer a question about whether the officer opened fire before or after allegedly having been struck by the vehicle.
\u201cI know you keep asking that, but that doesn\u2019t mean that the FBI is going to give you an answer today. There will be an investigation; we want to make sure that it\u2019s factual,\u201d Noem said in reply to a reporter’s question.
Her mother told the Star Tribune that Good was not part of ICE-related protests. Shortly after the shooting, local and state officials disputed federal authorities’ narrative of events, with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz saying he had seen a video of the shooting and warning people not to believe \u201cthe propaganda machine.\u201d
A video of the encounter obtained by NBC News<\/a> shows officers ordering a person out of an SUV in a residential part of Minneapolis. One of the officers can be seen trying to open the driver\u2019s side door before the vehicle drives in reverse a few feet, then begins driving forward.
As the SUV moves, multiple gunshots can be heard and the vehicle crashes into a parked car. It is not clear what happened before the part of the encounter that was captured on video.
The FBI is investigating the shooting.
In a statement, Old Dominion University President Brian Hemphill said Good graduated from the school in 2020 with an English degree. He called her killing “yet another clear example that fear and violence have sadly become commonplace in our nation.”
“May Renee\u2019s life be a reminder of what unites us: freedom, love, and peace,” Hemphill said. “My hope is for compassion, healing, and reflection at a time that is becoming one of the darkest and most uncertain periods in our nation\u2019s history.\u201d
The Department of Homeland Security has deployed hundreds more immigration agents to Minneapolis<\/a> in response to a viral video from a right-wing YouTuber alleging that Somali-run day care centers were receiving federal subsidies without caring for children.
The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families investigated the allegations and said compliance checks at the facilities found children present at all but one that closed in 2022.
Tim Stelloh is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
Minyvonne Burke is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News.
Selina Guevara is an NBC News field producer, based in Chicago.
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