What We Know About the Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

Thousands of people rallied across the country this weekend to protest the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman, by a federal agent.

Thousands of people across the country mobilized over the weekend to protest the killing of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis and to call for the end of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.

Beyond Minneapolis, protesters marched in several Texas cities, New York, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. People also gathered in Portland, Ore., where U.S. Border Patrol agents shot and wounded two people in their vehicle on Thursday.

Local and federal officials are still sharply divided over what happened in the minutes leading up to the Minneapolis shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, on Wednesday. President Trump and other federal officials have asserted that the agent, who killed Ms. Good as she was driving from the scene, acted “in self-defense.” Minnesota officials have described those accounts as “propaganda” and “garbage.”

A New York Times analysis of videos of the shooting contradicts the Trump administration’s account.

Another video, taken by the immigration agent who killed Ms. Good moments later, was released on Friday and provides further details about the course of events.

Here’s what we know:

What happened in the encounter?

In videos posted on social media and verified by The Times, a maroon Honda Pilot is shown partly blocking one lane of a snowy residential street. The driver, later identified as Ms. Good, advances the vehicle slightly, then stops and waves to other drivers to pass.

A truck with flashing lights approaches, and the driver waves again. When the truck stops, federal agents emerge.

Two agents approach Ms. Good and tell her to get out of the car. One tries to open the driver’s side door and reaches through the window. A third agent, identified as Jonathan Ross, steps in front of the Honda.

The vehicle begins to move ahead. Mr. Ross pulls out a gun and fires at the driver, continuing to shoot as the vehicle moves past him.

The Honda accelerates and then crashes. Mr. Ross approaches the vehicle, then walks away and tells other agents to call 9-1-1.

One witness who spoke with The Times described seeing an agent trying to rip open the Honda’s door, while hearing another agent in front of the vehicle shout, “Stop,” before quickly firing.

A video taken by Mr. Ross was made public on Friday, showing the moments before the shooting.

“That’s fine dude, I’m not mad,” Ms. Good said to Mr. Ross, as he recorded her on his phone and circled her car, which was blocking part of the road.

As he continued to record, Ms. Good’s wife, Becca, prodded him. “You want to come at us?” she asked. “I say, go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead.”

Ms. Good began driving as the agent reached the front of the car. The camera suddenly pointed toward the sky, and gunshots rang out.

In a separate incident last year, Mr. Ross, the agent who shot Ms. Good, was dragged about 100 yards by a different driver during an immigration operation in Minnesota, according to interviews and court records.

Mr. Ross was treated with 20 stitches for a gash in his forearm from that incident. Last month, a jury in Minnesota convicted that driver of assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon, resulting in injury.

Who is the victim?

Renee Good, a U.S. citizen, lived in Minneapolis with her wife, Becca Good, who was also at the scene of the shooting.

Becca Good, in a statement to Minnesota Public Radio, described Renee Good as a Christian woman who believed in loving others, as well as in finding and nurturing kindness in people. She was “made of sunshine,” Becca Good said.

Renee Good, a poet and a mother of three, was born in Colorado Springs, Colo., and grew up in the state. She later moved to Virginia and Kansas City, Mo., before arriving in Minneapolis sometime last year.

She attended Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., where she won a prize in 2020 for a poem, “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs,” before graduating with an English degree in December of that year.

In October 2023, she successfully sought to change her name to Renee N. Macklin Good, writing in a court petition that she wanted “to share a name with my partner.” (She was born Renee Nicole Ganger.) In the court filing, she said that her two older children lived in Colorado at the time.

Ms. Good was raising a 6-year-old son with her wife.

How have officials responded?

Officials have clashed over the details of the killing, with local officials describing it as avoidable and federal officials defending the use of force.

In a post on social media, Mr. Trump said he believed the agent had shot the driver in self-defense and falsely claimed Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over” the officer.

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said that the woman was “stalking” officers and had committed domestic terrorism. In a heated exchange Sunday morning on CNN, Ms. Noem again claimed that Ms. Good had attempted to “run over” agents.

Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis called federal accounts of the shooting “bullshit” and accused the Trump administration of using chaos in the city as an opportunity to “occupy Minneapolis in some form.”

At a news conference on Thursday, the governor, Tim Walz, said that “Minnesota must be part of this investigation,” adding that some federal government statements about the shooting had been “verifiably false.”

State law enforcement officials initially said they would investigate the killing, but on Thursday they said that they could no longer participate because federal agencies had denied them access to evidence.

As protests continued in Minneapolis, Governor Walz activated the state’s National Guard “out of an abundance of caution,” according to his office, though troops have not been deployed.

Why have federal agents been deployed in Minnesota?

The Trump administration began an immigration crackdown in Minnesota last month, deploying scores of federal agents to the state. Federal immigration officers on Tuesday described their presence in Minnesota as the “largest operation to date.”

The ICE effort in the state is part of a broader deportation push in cities across the country since the start of Mr. Trump’s second term.

Immigration efforts in Minnesota have targeted undocumented immigrants, as in other cities, but have focused on the Somali community. The state has roughly 80,000 people of Somali ancestry, but the vast majority of them are American citizens or legal permanent residents.

Mr. Trump and his allies have portrayed the state as a failure of governance by its Democratic leaders, pointing to a fraud scheme that federal prosecutors said has resulted in billions of dollars being pilfered from social service programs. The president has also repeatedly used derisive terms to describe Somalis in Minnesota.

“ICE’s homeland security investigations are conducting operations to identify, arrest, remove criminals who are defrauding the American people in Minnesota,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, on Saturday. “We will root out this fraud and hold those who steal from American taxpayers accountable.”

Federal authorities said that they planned to increase their presence in the Minneapolis region.

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