Renee Good Was Trapped in SUV, Responders Tried to Revive Her as Partner Becca Was Taken to Hospital 

On a bitter winter morning in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, Renee Nicole Good, 37 — a mother of three — had just completed a familiar routine. After dropping her 6-year-old son at school, she and her committed partner, Becca, 40, climbed into their maroon Honda Pilot.

As they drove, Becca suggested a detour. Federal ICE agents had surged into the city, and protesters were already gathering. Good agreed to go.

She never made it home.

Within minutes, at 9:37 a.m., Good was shot three times while seated behind the wheel, according to witness accounts and an incident report released by Minnesota police. The shooter was identified as Jonathan Ross, who joined ICE in 2015 and, by 2025, was serving as a firearms instructor and a member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.

“I heard three pops of the gun,” said witness Lynette Reini-Grandell. “The people around me started screaming … ‘You killed her!’”

“They f—in’ shot her.”

The first 911 call came in at 9:39 a.m., triggering a rapid sequence of frantic reports and escalating turmoil on Portland Avenue.

One caller told dispatchers he had watched an ICE agent shoot a woman at close range as she sat in her car. “She’s f—in’ dead,” the caller, identified as Matt in the report, said. “They f—in’ shot her.” He added that there were “about 15 ICE agents” and claimed the woman was shot because “she wouldn’t open her car door,” according to the incident report. Multiple voices could be heard yelling and screaming in the background.

Within a minute, a second caller reported seeing ICE shoot someone inside a vehicle and then watched the car crash. “So, I don’t think they’re okay,” the caller said of the driver, adding: “Uh, I’m sorry, I had to walk away because I have young kids, and ICE is everywhere over there.”

Almost immediately, another caller reported “blood all over the driver,” and described the partner trying to provide aid. The caller said the agent who fired was still at the scene wearing an ICE tactical vest.

A scene erupts

As SWAT team members arrived and shouted for bystanders to back away, the reality of what had happened hardened into panic and grief. Becca began screaming, “My wife!” according to a neighbor who asked to remain anonymous.

Witnesses said Becca held Good, sobbing and covered in blood. Photos from the scene showed the SUV’s airbag soaked with blood and stuffed animals visible in the glove compartment — ordinary traces of a daily life cut short.

“I saw the hole in the windshield. It looked chest level,” said James, a neighbor, former firefighter and first responder. “There was so much blood around the airbag. The white airbag was red. There was so much blood.”

He said Good’s body and the front seat were covered in blood, and described the scene as “very, very gruesome.”

Efforts to save her life

At 9:42 a.m., less than five minutes after the first 911 call, a fire vehicle arrived, according to records cited in the report. Responders found Good unresponsive. The records described multiple gunshot wounds: two on the right side of her chest, another on her left forearm, and a fourth on the left side of her head. Blood was flowing from her left ear, and her pupils were dilated.

Responders attempted resuscitation on scene and continued efforts during transport. The incident report — portions of which were redacted — does not clearly state exactly when EMS arrived. What it does show is that roughly fifteen minutes elapsed between the first 911 call and the time Good was transported to the hospital.

Resuscitation efforts were stopped around 10:30 a.m., about an hour after she was shot.

James said responders struggled to remove Good from the vehicle and initially did not have a stretcher. He described seeing three people carry her toward an ambulance at the end of the block.

“No longer on scene”

Even as emergency crews fought to save Good’s life, the federal agent who shot her was already gone.

By 10:03 a.m., the agent was listed in the incident report as “no longer on scene” and was transported to the federal building.

As accounts from the street continued to pour in, one 911 call came from someone claiming they were calling on behalf of DHS and offering a sharply different version of events. “We had officers stuck in a vehicle and we had agitators on scene,” the caller said. “And we have shots fired by our locals.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said on Jan. 14 that Ross suffered internal bleeding in his torso after being taken to the hospital, but declined to answer further questions. An FBI representative said, “No further information is available for release at this time in accordance with DOJ policy.”

Ross has not been accused of a crime.

Questions over deadly force

Use-of-force experts have questioned whether the shooting was justified. “In order to use deadly force, your life or someone else’s life must be in immediate danger,” said Chris Burbank, a former Salt Lake City police chief. He said he did not believe Good posed such a risk.

The report reflects confusion and tension persisting long after the gunfire stopped. “Still [attempting] to figure out who’s in change,” one entry reads.

The investigation has been contentious from the outset. Federal officials have said the FBI would handle the inquiry, arguing Minnesota authorities lacked jurisdiction. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison pushed back, calling for “a fair, transparent investigation of all of the facts.”

DHS calls it “domestic terrorism”; family rejects that

In the hours after Good was killed, protesters gathered near the scene. The incident report describes “agitators,” repeated calls for backup, and attempts to block an ICE convoy. Around 11 a.m., Border Patrol agents deployed pepper spray.

Roughly two hours after Good was fatally shot, DHS released a statement accusing her of committing an “act of domestic terrorism.” The agency claimed the ICE officer relied on his training and “fired defensive shots” at a vehicle they said was trying to “run over” agents.

Good’s family rejected that characterization. Her mother Donna and father Tim Ganger, along with her four siblings, described her as “a beautiful light of our family” who “brought joy to anyone she met,” adding that she was “relentlessly hopeful and optimistic.”

The block, the blood, the vigil

Back at the scene, witnesses said the evidence of what happened remained — physically and emotionally — embedded in the neighborhood.

“All of the rest of the blood is underneath the vigil,” James said, describing cleanup in the area and saying some blood he believed was from Becca remained in his yard. He spoke of seeing Good around the neighborhood and said she regularly helped others.

The vigil site grew quickly. Just three days after the killing, on Saturday, Jan. 10, thousands of flowers, signs, and paintings crowded the area. Some knelt in prayer, crying softly in the freezing air. As night fell, solemn remembrance gave way to anger, with signs and chants condemning ICE and the Trump administration.

In a statement issued days after the shooting, Becca described the moment as a choice between presence and power: “We stopped to support our neighbors,” she said. “We had whistles. They had guns.”

She closed by looking forward — to the life she now must navigate without Good. “I am now left to raise our son,” she said, “and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him.”