Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was fatally shot in Minneapolis by Jonathan Ross, a federal agent who has worked as a deportation officer with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since 2015.
However, the Department of Homeland Security and President Donald Trump have defended the shooting as an act of self-defence; Democratic leaders have condemned it.
The federal authorities noted that the shooting occurred after Good allegedly drove her vehicle toward the agent, prompting him to open fire. The explanation has been rejected by several Democratic leaders, who called the killing unjustified.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it “a betrayal of American values,” while Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass described it as “the senseless killing of an innocent and unarmed wife and mother.”
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Who was Renee Nicole Good?
Good, originally from Colorado Springs, had recently moved to Minneapolis. She was a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist.
She was the mother of three. Her two older children, aged 14 and 12, are from her first marriage. The Associated Press reports that they are currently in the custody of their biological father, Good’s ex-husband. There is no indication that she had lost custody of either child before her death.
Her youngest child, a six-year-old son, was born during her marriage to Timmy Ray Macklin Jr., who died in 2023. Macklin’s father told the Minnesota Star Tribune that after Good’s death, there was “nobody else in his life.”
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Questions arose about who would care for the six-year-old boy
Notably, a GoFundMe page launched following Good’s death included a message from her wife, Rebecca Good, who said she is now raising the child. She said they had been teaching him compassion and kindness, even as he coped with the loss of his father and now his mother.
