Becca Good's first reactions after witnessing her wife Renee fatally shot by ICE
When Becca and Renee Good first started their morning on January 7 2026, the day started off like any other.
They woke up, they got ready, and then they headed off to elementary school to drop off their 6-year-old son in the family’s maroon Honda Pilot.
Yet as they drove down one of Minneapolis’ snow-laden streets on their way home, Becca suggested that they take a detour to where people were protesting the hundreds of ICE agents that had flooded the city as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration.
Good agreed to go and show her support for her friends, neighbours and other members of the community who opposed the influx of armed ICE agents – yet it is this decision that tragically led to her losing her life.
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What happened next took mere seconds, as Renee was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross while seated behind the wheel of the same car that had just dropped her son off.
A veteran of ICE, Ross had been a member of the federal agency since 2015 and even been working as a firearms instructor in the year immediately preceding Renee’s death, reports PEOPLE.
Witnesses at the scene would later describe hearing ‘three pops of a gun’ before crowds began screaming, with the chilling words ‘You killed her’ being screamed nearby, according to the fire department's transcripts, as seen by PEOPLE.
While the circumstances surrounding the shooting are still being investigated, we do know that Good reversed her SUV as an ICE agent attempted to open the driver’s side door, shouting “Get out of the f--king car.”
Good then started to pull forward, at which point Ross fired through the windshield, and she accelerated quickly, eventually hitting another parked car before coming to a stop.
Fire department records revealed she was shot four times, with the mother of three having two apparent gunshot wounds on the right side of her chest, another on her left forearm and a fourth on the left side of her head.
Immediately following the shooting, emergency calls from bystanders nearby came flooding into 911, and paramedics were soon dispatched to the scene, arriving at around 9:42am.
It was on arrival that they found Good in the driver’s seat, unresponsive and covered in blood on her face and torso, as Becca, 40, held onto her, sobbing.
As well as paramedics, SWAT team members were also dispatched to the scene, yet as they approached, they began to shout to bystanders to stay back, all while Becca started to scream in shock, “My wife!”, according to a neighbour.
Blood was flowing from Renee’s left ear, and her pupils were dilated as paramedics set to work to try to save her life.
As emergency personnel got to work, Becca left the vehicle and walked to a nearby neighbour’s home, where she sat on the porch, covered in blood and in shock from what she had just experienced.
For a short while, she remained there before standing and crying, as she said, "There’s a dog in the back. Can someone get it for me, please?"
When reunited with her dog, she sat in silence, stroking it before being transported to the hospital herself. Meanwhile, at the scene of the incident, officers took around 25 minutes to remove Renee from the vehicle, according to police sources.
She was not breathing and had an irregular pulse.
Attempts were made to resuscitate Good, but they were sadly unsuccessful.
According to police records, an ambulance transported her towards the hospital, but resuscitation efforts were stopped after 10 a.m.
The agent who shot Renee remained at the scene for around fifteen minutes before being transported to a federal building.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said that Ross was taken to the hospital that day and suffered internal bleeding in his torso, but declined to answer further questions about the incident.
Ross hasn’t been accused of a crime, and Vice President JD Vance previously stated he would have ‘absolute immunity’ from any prosecution – but critics have suggested that his use of deadly force may not have been justified.
An investigation into the shooting remains ongoing.
“We stopped to support our neighbors,” Becca said in a statement on Jan. 9. “We had whistles. They had guns.”
“I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him.”
Topics: Immigration, US News, Crime
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