Renee Nicole Good: Who Was the Minneapolis Woman Fatally Shot by an ICE Agent in the US?

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37-year-old US citizen and mother of three was shot dead by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis. The woman was identified as Renee Nicole Good.Renee was a poet who had just dropped her six-year-old son at school when she was intercepted by ICE agents, according to the Associated Press. At the time of her death, Renee was in the driver’s seat of her car and was speaking to an immigration agent who was recording her.

Renee Nicole Good, a Life Full of Heart and Poetry

Born Renee Nicole Ganger in Colorado Springs, USA, she moved to Minneapolis sometime in 2025. She graduated from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2020, where she studied creative writing. She also won a prize for a poem titled On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs.After graduating from university, she moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and changed her name to Renee N. Macklin Good, as she wanted to share the surname of her partner.According to the Associated Press, she had two children aged 15 and 12 from her first marriage. The father of her youngest son died in 2023.The Associated Press also reported that, on her social media accounts, she described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom”. She said she was currently “experiencing Minneapolis”, accompanied by a pride emoji on her Instagram account. A profile picture posted on Pinterest shows her smiling and holding a young child against her cheek, alongside posts about tattoos, hairstyles and home decorating.According to a report published in The New York Times by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, An Hinga Klein and Dan Simmons, “In Kansas City, neighbours recalled a happy family of three, the Goods and their exuberant son, now six years old, who lived in a small home with a gay pride flag in a quiet neighbourhood on the south side of the city.”Their house was in the neighbourhood of Powderhorn, an area known for its activist community. According to her ex-husband, she was a devoted Christian who loved to sing. After her murder, anti-ICE protests have swept across the US.