ICE Officer Fatally Shoots 37-Year-Old Woman in Minneapolis as Federal and City Accounts Clash
On the morning of January 7, 2026, in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, an officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) opened fire on Portland Avenue between East 33rd and 34th Streets, fatally shooting Renee Nicole Good, 37. Good, a mother of three and a U.S. citizen, was in the driver's seat of her Honda Pilot.
In a statement issued at 11:45 a.m. that day, the Department of Homeland Security said a "violent" rioter had "weaponized her vehicle" and attempted to run over and kill an ICE officer in what the agency called an "act of domestic terrorism," and that the officer, "fearing for his life," fired defensive shots following his training. The statement confirmed that the woman who was shot had died. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters that afternoon that officers' vehicle had been stuck in the snow earlier that morning and that the officer who fired had been struck by the vehicle, treated at a hospital and released.
President Donald Trump posted at 2:28 p.m. that video of the shooting was "a horrible thing to watch" and that it was "hard to believe" the officer was alive. He wrote that the woman driving the car was "very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense."
Minneapolis and Minnesota officials gave a sharply different account the same day. At a midday news conference, Mayor Jacob Frey said the agent had "recklessly" used his power, called ICE's self-defense claim "bullshit," and told ICE to leave Minneapolis. Governor Tim Walz posted that morning that his public safety team was gathering information and asked people to remain calm. The city had posted at 10:26 a.m. advising people to avoid the area of East 34th Street and Portland Avenue.
The shooting took place during an expanded federal immigration enforcement operation in the Minneapolis area. The Department of Homeland Security had previously announced increased enforcement activity there, in the operation later known as Operation Metro Surge. The accounts of what happened conflict, and GSM presents each side's statements as they were made that day without drawing a conclusion.
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Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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