‘You Just Killed My F**king Neighbor!’ Eyewitness Describes Deadly ICE Shooting

The woman who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Wednesday in Minneapolis seemed “obviously scared” and was trying to leave, an eyewitness to the killing told HuffPost, disputing government claims that the ICE agent acted in self-defense.

Emily Heller, 39, stepped outside her home around 9:30 a.m. after hearing whistles and honking by community members who were alerting their neighbors about ICE agents’ presence. Heller said she saw a woman, since identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in a vehicle blocking a convoy of six or seven ICE vehicles on a one-way street.

“The ICE agents got out of their vehicles and were screaming at her to ‘move, move, move,’” Heller said. “She wasn’t moving at first, and then they came over to her side of the car and tried to open the door, I assume to drag her out.”

“She was obviously scared — she was going to leave,” Heller said. “She reversed a little bit and then started to move forward. And as she was starting to move forward, one of the ICE agents stood in front of her car, leaned across her hood and then fired three or four shots right into, it seemed like, her face.”

Good, was “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune. “She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”

Good had a young son, whose father died in 2023, according to the Star Tribune. “There’s nobody else in his life,” Timmy Ray Macklin Sr., the boy’s grandfather, told the paper. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come get my grandchild.”

Other eyewitness videos corroborate Heller’s account of the shooting. One, which shows a clear view of the driver’s side of the vehicle, shows multiple armed agents approaching Good and attempting to open the driver’s door. The vehicle begins to leave when one of the officers fires multiple shots.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Good had committed an “act of domestic terrorism” against ICE officers and “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle.” Noem claimed the officer “acted quickly and defensively” to “protect himself and the people around him.”

“No way,” Heller said of DHS’ claim that the ICE agent acted in self-defense. The masked agent who shot Good “put himself in front of her,” Heller said.

Multiple incidents in President Donald Trump’s second term have shown federal agents lying about their actions in the course of immigration enforcement. In Chicago, for instance, prosecutors ultimately dropped charges against one driver, shot by federal agents, who DHS claimed “rammed” those agents with her vehicle. A federal judge had raised concerns about the potential destruction of evidence by an agent.

After Good was shot Wednesday in Minneapolis, the vehicle accelerated before hitting a telephone pole and some cars, Heller said. It took about 15 minutes for emergency responders to arrive, Heller said. “She was just in her car, slumped. There was no life-saving measures. There was nothing.”

In a video Heller took and shared with HuffPost, another bystander requests permission to check Good’s pulse.

“No! Back up! Now!” an unidentified voice responds.

“I’m a physician,” the man says.

“I don’t care,” the voice responds.

An armed masked agent states that their own medics are on the way and asks the crowd to “just relax.”

“How can I relax? You just killed my fucking neighbor,” Heller can be heard on video. “How do you show up to work every day? How the fuck do you do this every day? You’re killing my neighbors; you’re stealing my neighbors.”

Emergency responders couldn’t get their vehicle to Good, Heller said. “They didn’t even have a stretcher. They just carried her out by her limbs. It’s like watching a sack of potatoes being carried down the block.”

The ICE agents are “untrained, they are unprofessional, and they’re now murderers,” Heller said. “It feels like my neighborhood is being terrorized.”

Matt Shuham contributed to this report.