ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis during DHS operation

MINNEAPOLIS (CN) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in South Minneapolis were involved in a shooting Wednesday that resulted in the death of one individual, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

DHS said in a post on X that the individual attempted to run over law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them during targeted operations in Minneapolis. According to the post, an ICE officer fired defensive shots at the vehicle, killing the driver, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

“This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement,” DHS said, adding that the ICE officers involved were hurt but expected to make full recoveries.

President Donald Trump backed DHS in a Truth Social post, saying Good “viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.”

Witness reports to KARE 11 and MPR claim Good was attempting to flee ICE agents when she was shot. Officials have not confirmed whether she was a target of ICE operations. Videos circulating the internet show the interaction between the vehicle and ICE agents.

Hundreds of people gathered at the scene in the hours after the shooting, largely opposing the ICE agents’ activity in the city, and Minnesotans gathered to honor Good with a vigil later in the day.

Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat whose district falls in the shooting’s location, claims Good was a “legal observer” and said ICE must stop “terrorizing our communities.”

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey also responded to the shooting, using it to back his stance against ICE operations in the city.

“The presence of federal immigration enforcement agents is causing chaos in our city,” he said in a post on X. “We’re demanding ICE to leave the city immediately, we stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities.”

Frey said ICE is trying to wrongfully spin the story as an act of self-defense in a press conference, claiming the agent involved was “recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying.” He expressed his condolences to Good’s family and demanded that ICE cease operations.

“People are being hurt, families are being ripped apart, long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy are being terrorized, and now somebody is dead,” he said. “That’s on you.”

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said his public safety team is working to gather information on the shooting and will share information as they learn more.

Walz has publicly criticized the federal enforcement effort in his state, expressing concerns over the operation’s size and lack of transparency and communication with state officials.

Walz provided an update on the shooting later in the day, condemning the Trump administration’s operations as a threat to public safety and arguing that their recklessness cost Good her life. Walz also issued a warning order to put the state’s National Guard on standby.

“We do not need any further help from the federal government,” Walz said in his update. “To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you’ve done enough.”

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem defended the use of deadly force by the ICE officer and called the actions leading up to the shooting an act of “domestic terrorism.”

This comes amidst what DHS is claiming to be the largest ever immigration enforcement operation for the department, with over 2,000 federal agents hitting the streets of Minnesota, a crackdown tied in part to fraud claims involving the Somali population in the state.

Noem, who was present in the Twin Cities on Tuesday, said agents are in the state to root out fraud and continue enforcement operations of immigrants who are in the country illegally and that DHS has already arrested hundreds of individuals.

“If you think you can come to this country and get rich defrauding the American people, think again,” Noem said in a post on X. “We will root out every case of fraud we find from Minneapolis to California to New York.”

Noem said in a press conference that ICE would continue operations in Minnesota despite the shooting.