The fatal shooting of Colorado Springs-native Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis has sparked public outcry across the country, with protests taking place nationwide and lawmakers speaking out against the incident. Good, 37, died in her vehicle after b eing shot several times in the head by a federal agent in a residential area Wednesday morning. Good’s ex-husband, who did not want to be named out of concern for their children’s safety, said she had just dropped her 6-year-old son off at school. A crowd rallied in front of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday night in Colorado Springs. Protesters said the death of Good —a mother and a wife — was “senseless.” Federal officials have deemed the incident a response to “domestic terrorism.” “She attempted to run an officer over. This appears as an attempt to kill or cause bodily harm to agents. An act of domestic terrorism,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a news conference following the shooting. Colorado Springs and protesters nationwide have disputed this recount of events. “Just murdered, four bullets to her face. She’s a mother, she’s a human, she’s an American citizen. This is atrocious, and we’re still trying to process it,” said one local protester told Gazette news partner KOAA. Meanwhile, Minnesota state and local officials have demanded that ICE leave the city; Noem said agents are not going anywhere. People protest as law enforcement officers attend to the scene of the shooting involving federal law enforcement agents, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Tom Baker) ‘A poet, wife and mom’ Good was identified by her mother Wednesday as a Twin City resident and Colorado Springs-area native. A relative told Gazette news partner 9News that Good still has several family members in Colorado and had also lived in the Kansas City area. Documents from a 2023 name-change petition from Good indicate that she leaves behind three children, who at the time of the filing were ages 13, 10 and 3. The two older children lived in Colorado, and the youngest lived in Kansas City, according to reporting by The Kansas City Star. According to her petition, Good wanted to change her last name from Renee Nicole Macklin to Renee Nicole Macklin Good. Her stated reason for the name change: “I want to share a name with my partner.” The AP reported that Good was born in Colorado and appears to have never been charged with anything involving law enforcement beyond a traffic ticket. In social media accounts, Good described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom.” She said she was currently “experiencing Minneapolis,” displaying a pride flag emoji on her Instagram account. A profile picture posted to Pinterest shows her smiling and holding a young child against her cheek, along with posts about tattoos, hairstyles and home decorating. Trump administration officials painted Good as a domestic terrorist who had attempted to ram federal agents with her car. Her ex-husband said she was no activist and that he had never known her to participate in a protest of any kind. He described her as a devoted Christian who took part in youth mission trips to Northern Ireland when she was younger. She loved to sing, participating in a chorus in high school and studying vocal performance in college. The shooting and aftermath Multiple neighbors and bystanders said Good appeared to be trying to leave the scene when agents fired into her vehicle. Aiden Perzana, who lives nearby on Portland Avenue, said Good’s car, a purple Honda Pilot SUV, was perpendicular to the road with unmarked federal vehicles positioned on one side of it. He said agents approached the vehicle and ordered the driver out before she reversed briefly and then accelerated forward. Video of the encounter shows one agent attempting to open the driver’s door and reaching a hand through the open window. As she began to drive forward, another agent in front of the vehicle then fired at least two shots at close range into the car. “She was trying to get away,” said Emily Heller, a neighbor who observed the encounter. The Department of Homeland Security said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were making arrests in the area when “rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle.” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that an ICE agent, “fearing for his life,” fired “defensive shots,” striking the woman, who later died. DHS did not immediately identify the ICE agent. A bullet hole and blood stains are seen in a crashed vehicle on at the scene of a shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (Ben Hovland/Minnesota Public Radio via AP) At the scene in Minneapolis U.S. Customs and Border Protection Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was at the scene alongside armed federal agents, many wearing bulletproof vests, helmets and face masks. His appearance came a day after Noem arrived in Minneapolis, as federal immigration authorities signaled an expanded enforcement presence in the Twin Cities. Perzana rejected DHS’ characterization of the shooting, insisting that the motorist was not attempting to ram anyone as she fled. “They’re whitewashing it; that’s absolutely not what happened,” he said. “Somebody was trying to pull her out of her car. She was just trying to get away. There’s no way she was aiming for anybody. It’s just absurd.” Lynette Reini-Grandell, who lives about half a block away, said she was filming ICE activity when she heard what sounded like three gunshots — “pop, pop, pop” — and saw the Honda Pilot lurch forward and strike a parked car. A bullet hole is seen in the windshield as law enforcement officers work the scene of a shooting involving federal law enforcement agents, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Tom Baker) Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said during a news conference that MPD officers responded to Portland Avenue between 33rd and 34th streets and found Good suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. Officers attempted lifesaving measures, including CPR, before she was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. Witness Venus de Mars confirmed that law enforcement officers conducted CPR. “And then the ambulances came and they loaded her onto a stretcher,” she said. O’Hara said MPD secured the scene and began preserving evidence before turning the investigation over to the FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), which will jointly investigate the use of deadly force. The shooting drew a heavy law enforcement response and escalated tensions. Minneapolis police officers flooded the area and formed lines as crowds gathered, shouting at federal agents and blowing whistles. Federal immigration agents deployed chemical spray at activists multiple times, leaving several people coughing and rinsing their eyes with water and milk. Protesters remained at the scene long after ICE agents left, chanting and yelling at law enforcement officers as they set up metal barriers around the scene. Law enforcement closed off several blocks of Portland Avenue as hundreds gathered at the scene of the shooting throughout the early afternoon. Dozens of local police watched from the street, and a crew of state troopers in fluorescent green showed up shortly before 1:30 p.m. MST As local and state police left the shooting scene in a convoy of vehicles after 2 p.m., hundreds of protesters followed, some hurling snowballs and kicking at the vans carrying officers. Others tried to stop them from doing so. The protesters then marched north along Portland Avenue, against traffic, shouting for ICE to leave the city. Protestors react after being hit with chemical spray at the scene of a shooting in Minneapolis, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via AP) Trump reaction President Donald Trump weighed in on the shooting in a post on Truth Social, where he claimed Good “viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.” City and state leaders quickly condemned the federal operation. At a City Hall news conference, Mayor Jacob Frey said the shooting was “devastating” and delivered a blunt message to federal agents: “ICE, get the f— out of Minneapolis.” Frey also pushed back on any claim the shooting was self-defense. “This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed,” he said, calling the self-defense narrative “garbage … that is not true.” Noem, speaking at a news conference in Brownsville, Texas, said the incident showed the “assaults” ICE officers face and characterized it as an act of “domestic terrorism.” Minnesota response Gov. Tim Walz said he has issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard to be deployed if necessary. “To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you’ve done enough,” he said during a news conference. “There’s nothing more important than Minnesotans’ safety.” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty called for a local investigation, saying it was the only way to ensure transparency. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office said in a post on X that it supports a “full and transparent investigation.” U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer said on Fox News he is “not going to jump to conclusions” before a law enforcement investigation but that “there is a ICE officer standing directly in front of the car when it starts to accelerate.” Federal immigration agents are bound by the same constitutional limits on use of force as local police. Under the Fourth Amendment, courts evaluate use of force by all law enforcement — federal, state or local — using an “objective reasonableness” standard that asks whether a reasonable officer would have believed the force was necessary given the circumstances, including whether there was an immediate threat. Deadly force is generally justified only when an officer reasonably believes there is an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm. While ICE did not immediately respond to a request for information about next steps for the agent who shot Good, the BCA said its agents “are involved in the investigation regarding the use-of-force incident that occurred earlier today in Minneapolis involving an ICE officer.” The agency added the investigation will be conducted jointly with the FBI. The Gazette’s Cleo Westin and Debbie Kelley contributed to this story. ...read more read less