Featured Image Credit: Donna Ganger / Facebook
Topics: Immigration, US News, Crime, Minnesota
Phoebe Tonks
Topics: Immigration, US News, Crime, Minnesota
The death of Renee Nicole Good, a woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this month, has officially been ruled a homicide.
The mother-of-three was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on January 7, with the Trump administration claiming that she was a 'domestic terrorist' and was allegedly attempting to kill the officer, who has since been identified as Jonathan Ross.
However, subsequently released footage appeared to have challenged this narrative, as it saw Good attempting to drive away from the scene before Ross shot her three times.
She was shot in the chest, arm and head, according to a Fire Department report obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune.
Advert
Emergency services received multiple calls urging them to respond to the shooting, and Good was discovered unresponsive in her car with blood on her face and torso at around 9:42 a.m. local time on the morning of her death.
Despite the best efforts of medics, she sadly passed away a short while later.
Following Friday’s ruling by the medical examiner, an attorney representing Good's family, Anthony Romanucci, issued a statement: “We are aware of the release of basic information by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner acknowledging the death of Renee Good as a Homicide.”
"We are still waiting for their full report and hope that they communicate with Renee’s family and share their report before releasing any further information to the public.”
The shooting has attracted intense public scrutiny both in the US and internationally and comes amid a wave of increasing unease about ICE raids taking place across the country as part of a Trump administration crackdown on ‘illegal immigrants'.
Federal officials have repeatedly blocked requests from local law enforcement to be part of the investigation into the shooting and instead continued to stand by their narrative that Good was a ‘domestic terrorist’ that had tried to ‘weaponize’ her vehicle to harm ICE Officer Ross.
This account has been widely disputed by Good’s family, including her partner Becca who was present at the time of the shooting, and by local officials.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did confirm that Ross was taken to the hospital that day and suffered internal bleeding in his torso, but declined to answer further questions about the incident.
Although he pulled the trigger, Ross hasn’t been accused of any crime, and Vice President JD Vance previously stated he would have ‘absolute immunity’ from any prosecution – but critics have suggested that his use of deadly force may not have been justified.
An investigation into the shooting remains ongoing.