The latest cell phone video of Renee Good’s fatal shooting by an ICE officer appears to show she had a dog in the vehicle at the time.
In the footage, an ICE agent circles a Honda Pilot as Renee sits in the driver’s seat. Her wife, Becca Good, stands outside speaking with the agent. A black dog can be seen in the backseat, watching through an open window.
Tensions rise when Renee begins to move the car. An agent later identified as Jonathan Ross fires his weapon. Even after she is shot, the SUV continues rolling away before crashing farther down the road. In the audio, a voice behind the camera is heard saying, “F—ing bitch.”
A Minneapolis resident who lives near the scene says they spoke with Becca shortly afterward and asked if there was anyone she could call. Becca, the resident recalled, responded: “That’s my wife. They shot her in the f—-ing head, dude. This is ridiculous!”
The neighbor added that Becca said the couple had recently moved to Minneapolis and had a 6-year-old enrolled in school.
As SWAT team members moved in and shouted for bystanders to back away, Becca began screaming, “My wife!” the neighbor said. Then, according to the same account, she stood up and pleaded, “There’s a dog in the back. Can someone get it for me, please?”
Not long after, the neighbor said Becca retrieved the dog herself and sat with it on the steps of a nearby house while officials continued working the scene.
In a statement released on Jan. 9, Becca said she and Renee had recently moved to Minnesota “to make a better life for ourselves.” She also said Renee had three children from two previous marriages.
“What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy,” she wrote. “And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever.”
Becca also described how they came into contact with ICE that day.
“On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors,” she wrote. “We had whistles. They had guns.”
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Renee suffered gunshot wounds to the head, ABC News reported, citing city officials. Video from the scene also showed officers preventing a man who identified himself as a doctor from providing aid. She was later transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
In her statement, Becca said Renee “leaves behind three extraordinary children,” adding that the youngest is six years old. “I am now left to raise our son,” she wrote, and to teach him, as Renee believed, that people can still build a better world — and that fear and anger should be met with compassion.
“We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve,” she concluded. “We thank you for ensuring that Renee’s legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love.”