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A mother of three killed by a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agent was shot in the head, chest and arm, documents show.
Paramedics found Renee Nicole Good unresponsive in her car and covered in blood, according to records obtained by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
She had sustainedfour gunshot wounds to her chest, arm and head.
Federal authorities say the 37-year-old was a “domestic terrorist” who attempted to run over Jonathan Ross, an Ice agent.
Paramedics discovered Good, whose wife was at the scene when she died, in her car about 9.42am on January 7, according to records from the Minneapolis fire department.
Her family said she had recently dropped off her 6-year-old son at school.
Good was alive when paramedics reached her but her face and torso were bloodied. She was not breathing and her pulse was “inconsistent” and “irregular”.
Emergency services recorded two gunshot wounds on her chest, one on her left forearm and one on the left side of her head, where they also noted “protruding tissue” and blood flowing out of her ear.
Good was pulled out of her car by emergency workers to separate her from an “escalating scene” between Ice agents and bystanders.
Paramedics unsuccessfully attempted to revive her as she was rushed to hospital in an ambulance. CPR was stopped at 10.30am local time.
Renee Good suffered four gunshot wounds after being fired at by an Ice agent. Photo / Getty Images
Transcripts show one bystander called 911, telling emergency services, “they shot her [because] she wouldn’t open her car door” and begging them to send an ambulance.
The Trump administration said Ross suffered internal bleeding as a result of the confrontation with Good.
Trump has apparently become concerned about Ice’s confrontational tactics after his team reviewed polling that showed support for his immigration policies faltering, according to Axios.
An adviser said the President was determined to go ahead with his campaign promise of mass deportations, but apparently “doesn’t like the way it looks”.
“It looks bad, so he’s expressed some discomfort at that,” the individual said.
Several Republicans in Congress have reportedly expressed concern to the White House about how Ice raids are being carried out, while Democrats are seeking to constrain the agency as part of government funding negotiations.
Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat leader in the House of Representatives, said on Wednesday that “taxpayer dollars” were being used to “unleash extremism on the streets of America”.
On Wednesday, a migrant was shot and wounded by an officer after he allegedly attacked an agent.
The case in Minneapolis comes as US President Donald Trump grows uneasy with Ice’s tactics and image. Photo / Getty Images
Gun Violence Archive data shows there have been 16 shooting incidents by Ice up to January 9 this year. Some 32 people died while in Ice custody in 2025.
After the death of a man in Ice detention on January 3 in Texas, the El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner said the incident was likely to be recorded as a homicide, according to The Washington Post.
Lunas Campos’ daughter was apparently told by a doctor the medical examiner anticipated “listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression”.
The 55-year-old Cuban migrant died after a struggle with detention staff.
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