A bullet hole and blood stains are seen in a crashed vehicle on at the scene of a shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (Ben Hovland/Minnesota Public Radio via AP) 
A Minneapolis police officer stands guard while emergency medical technicians administer aid to a person who was shot by a Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (Ellen Schmidt/MinnPost via AP) 
People protest as law enforcement officers attend to the scene of the shooting involving federal law enforcement agents, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Tom Baker) 
A protester stands next to a makeshift memorial honoring the victim of a fatal shooting involving federal law enforcement agents, near the scene in Minneapolis, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Tom Baker) 
Demonstrators gather during a vigil near where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell’Orto)
MINNEAPOLIS | An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the mayor described as reckless and unnecessary.
The 37-year-old woman was shot in the head in front of a family member in a snowy residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets and about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.
Her killing after 9:30 a.m. was recorded on video by witnesses, and the shooting quickly drew a large crowd of angry protesters. By evening, hundreds were there for a vigil to mourn her death and urge the public to resist immigration enforcers.
The woman, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, had a 6-year old child, her mother told the Minnesota Star Tribune. Macklin Good described herself on social media as a “poet and writer and wife and mom” who was from Colorado.
COLORADO COMMENT
COLORADO DEMOCRAT PART CHAIRPERSON SHAD MURIB: “Renee was brutally killed in her vehicle by an ICE agent, leaving behind a child. Her killing is inexcusable and the direct result of an agency that, under Donald Trump, has become an unrestrained paramilitary force: increasingly aggressive, hostile, unaccountable and detached from basic standards of public safety. No federal agency should be allowed to operate above the law, and no federal agent should be able to patrol our streets with masks and zero accountability for introducing violence and heartbreak to our neighborhoods. We demand accountability and immediate action to rein in reckless enforcement practices so no other family has to endure this kind of loss.”
GOV. JARED POLIS: “What took place in a Minneapolis neighborhood is deeply disturbing, and the loss of Renee Good is tragic. My thoughts are with Renee’s family, especially her young child, friends, and loved ones including those in Colorado. There must be a full investigation into this incident, and accountability. The American people deserve answers about what happened today.”
SEN. MICHAEL BENNET, D-COLORADO: “Earlier today, Donald Trump’s ICE agents killed a U.S. citizen, born and raised in Colorado, in a horrific and unnecessary shooting. President Trump’s reckless weaponization of ICE is making our cities less safe and endangering people simply trying to lead their lives. We need an investigation, and we need justice.”
REP. JASON CROW, D-AURORA: “Unaccountable masked ICE agents just killed a woman. And Kristi Noem is already lying about what happened. ICE is inciting fear and inflaming tensions across the country. They must be held accountable.”
SEN. JOHN HICKENLOOPER, D-COLORADO: “The footage out of Minneapolis is horrifying. ICE cannot continue their rein of terror across this country. Countless families separated and today a woman killed. We need an immediate, independent investigation into this shooting.”
Videos taken by bystanders with different vantage points and posted to social media show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle. The Honda Pilot begins to pull forward and a different ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots into the vehicle at close range, jumping back as the vehicle moves toward him.
It is not clear in the videos if the vehicle makes contact with the officer and there is no indication of whether or not the woman had interactions with ICE officers before the videos started. After the shooting, the SUV speeds into two cars parked on a curb nearby before crashing to a stop.
In another video taken at the scene, a woman, who described Macklin Good as her spouse, is seen crying near the vehicle. The woman, who was not identified, said the couple had only recently arrived in Minnesota and that they had a child.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the incident as an “act of domestic terrorism” carried out against ICE officers by a woman who “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him.”
In a social media post, President Donald Trump made similar accusations against the woman and defended ICE’s work.
Local officials dispute the narrative
Noem claimed the woman was part of a “mob of agitators” and said the officer followed his training. She said the veteran officer who fired his gun had been rammed and dragged by an anti-ICE motorist in June.
“Any loss of life is a tragedy, and I think all of us can agree that in this situation, it was preventable,” Noem said, adding that the FBI would investigate.
But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey blasted Noem’s version of what happened as “garbage” and criticized the federal deployment of more than 2,000 officers to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul as part of the immigration crackdown.
“What they are doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust,” Frey said, calling on the immigration agents to leave. “They’re ripping families apart. They’re sowing chaos on our streets, and in this case, quite literally killing people.”
“They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I wanna tell everybody directly, that is bullshit,” the mayor said.
Shooting is fifth linked to crackdowns
The shooting marked a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major cities under the Trump administration. The death of the woman in Minneapolis was at least the fifth linked to immigration crackdowns.
The Twin Cities have been on edge since DHS announced Tuesday that it had launched the operation, which is at least partly tied to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents. Noem said they had already made “hundreds and hundreds” of arrests.
A large throng of protesters gathered at the scene after the shooting, where they vented their anger at the local and federal officers who were there, including Gregory Bovino, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official who has been the face of crackdowns in Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere.
“She was driving away and they killed her,” said Lynette Reini-Grandell, a local resident who was among those who filmed the shooting.
In a scene that hearkened back to the Los Angeles and Chicago crackdowns, bystanders heckled the officers, chanting “ICE out of Minnesota” and blew whistles that have become ubiquitous during the operations.
Governor calls for calm
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he’s prepared to deploy the National Guard if necessary. He described the killing as “predictable” and “avoidable.” He also said like many, he was outraged by the shooting, but he called on people to keep protests peaceful.
“They want a show. We can’t give it to them. We cannot,” the governor said.
Minneapolis Public Schools canceled school, sports and activities for Thursday and Friday, saying in a statement that the decision was “due to safety concerns related to today’s incidents around the city.”
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara briefly described the shooting to reporters but, unlike federal officials, gave no indication that the driver was trying to harm anyone.
There were calls on social media to prosecute the officer who shot the driver. Commissioner Bob Jacobson of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said state authorities would investigate the shooting with federal authorities.
“Keep in mind that this is an investigation that is also in its infancy. So any speculation about what has happened would be just that,” Jacobson told reporters.
The shooting happened in the district of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who called it “state violence,” not law enforcement.
For nearly a year, migrant rights advocates and neighborhood activists across the Twin Cities have been preparing to mobilize in the event of an immigration enforcement surge. From houses of worship to mobile home parks, they have set up very active online networks, scanned license plates for possible federal vehicles and bought whistles and other noisemaking devices to alert neighborhoods of any enforcement presence.
Dell’Orto reported from St. Paul, Minnesota. Associated Press reporters Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis, Ed White in Detroit, Valerie Gonzalez in Brownsville, Texas, Mark Vancleave in Las Vegas, Michael Biesecker In Washington and Jim Mustian in New York contributed.
The profile here is of a needy individual who seeks aspects of meaning in her life by caring for, protecting and “rescuing” others. We all know these types of individuals and they perform a valuable service in our communities. But sometimes, they place their own needs above those of society, and undermine normal law and order. In this case, spurred on by anti-ICE rhetoric by the Mayor, Governor and Democrat Party, chose illegal aliens as her target population to protect and found purpose and “hero status” by physically resisting ICE officers in the performance of their duties. She crossed the line however, when she endangered the life of an officer by hitting the gas while an officer was in front of her vehicle, and paid the ultimate price with her life.
Well, left-wing Democrats now have their martyr, much like the right-wing Republicans had with Ashli Babbit; only Ashli did not have or use a weapon.
I’m sure Democrats will try to use this event to promote civil unrest in Minneapolis and other major cities. Much like Hamas, they are not particularly concerned with the loss of individual lives as long as it is for the greater cause of maintaining future Democrat Party power.
Murder.
Poor ICE “officer’s” ego was hurt. Rather than move a little out of the way, shooto kill the mother of a six-year-old.
Thankfully this wilbe fully investigated. Nothing wilbe able to be hidden.
Why in the name of all that is Holy are Americans standing for this lunacy?
What has to happen before the American People stand up and say “ENOUGH”.
Your president is killing people without provocation right in your own country !
Your president is unilateraly making decisions to harm you, not with your blessing, not with your congress, not with your senate, just because.
You have lost the confidence of the entire world, except Hungary and Italy and perhaps Russia, you as Americans can no longer be counted on as rational partners in what is a global economy; no one wants to trade with you and are working overtime to stop trading with you at warp speed.
The lies the cheating the mis-management of your country by a cognitively impaired
lunatic who’s only goal is to line his pockets and put his name on anything for the love of the dollar and YOU have not figured this out.
Come on; Hegseth , Noam, Patel these are the leaders you put your trust in?
Get off your a__ your country needs you !!
The U.S.A. is no different than Venezuela, you are experiencing a dictatorial regime in your own country who again is killing you in so many ways.
You can stand up now or feel the repression of a dictator that will transform your country into a third world society.
Your country needs you more than ever.
Wouldn’t she still be a living mother if she had complied with the officers and stepped out of the vehicle she had blocked the street with. I would like to know who paid her to be an agitator.