Community Raises Over $680K For 6-Year-Old Of Renee Nicole Good After ICE Shooting

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — A GoFundMe created to support the 6-year-old child and the spouse of Renee Nicole Good, the woman fatally shot by an ICE officer in south Minneapolis on Wednesday, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars as the case draws national attention.

As of Thursday, the fundraiser had collected about $681,000 from roughly 17,500 donations, surpassing its original $50,000 goal by more than 1,300 percent.

"Renee was pure sunshine, pure love," the page states. "She will be desperately missed."

Good, 37, was shot and killed Wednesday morning while driving her Honda Pilot on Portland Avenue by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

Federal officials described the shooting as an act of self-defense, stating that she "weaponized" her vehicle. City leaders and witnesses from the scene said it was a brazen act of murder.

Good was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado who had recently moved to Minnesota.

She was the mother of three children from two prior marriages. Her oldest children are now teenagers, and her youngest son is 6 years old. The boy’s father died in 2023.

Her ex-husband told the Associated Press that on Wednesday morning, Good had just dropped off her 6-year-old son at school and was driving home with her current partner when they encountered a group of ICE agents on a snowy Minneapolis street.

Video taken by bystanders shows ICE officers approaching Good’s vehicle, demanding she open the door and grabbing the handle. As the vehicle began to move forward, a different officer standing in front of the SUV drew his weapon and fired at least two shots at close range.

The vehicle later crashed into parked cars.

Good’s partner can be heard crying in a separate video taken after the shooting, screaming “That’s my wife, I don’t know what to do!”

Good described herself on social media as a writer, poet, wife, and mother. She studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia and had previously worked as a dental assistant and at a credit union. In recent years, family members said she had primarily been a stay-at-home parent.

Her mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that she was "one of the kindest people I’ve ever known."

"She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being."

State investigators removed from the case

Minnesota’s top state investigators have been removed from the investigation into the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis after federal authorities abruptly took sole control of the case.

Read more: Feds 'Reverse Course,' Kick MN State Investigators Off Of Deadly ICE Shooting Case

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Reporting from the Associated Press was used in this story.