911 calls reveal moments after Renee Nicole Good was shot by ICE agent in Minneapolis

When paramedics arrived at the scene, they found Renee Nicole Good still alive, with gunshot wounds to her chest, forearm and face, according to an incident report by the Minneapolis Fire Department.


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Emergency calls have revealed the moments after mother-of-three Renee Nicole Good was shot in her car by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis.

“They just shot a lady. Point blank range in her car… She’s f*****g dead. They f*****g shot her,” one caller told 911, demanding courageous police officers be sent to the scene to help.

“There’s like 50 f*****g ICE agents over here,” the caller added, according to transcripts acquired by Sky News US partner network NBC.

He also said there was video footage of the shooting on 7 January, which enflamed tensions in a city at the focus of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and led to nationwide protests.

Renee Nicole Good
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Police tape is placed after an incident where driver of a vehicle was shot in Minneapolis. Pic:Reuters
Image:Police tape is placed after an incident where driver of a vehicle was shot in Minneapolis. Pic:Reuters

The Trump administration claimed the ICE officer acted in self-defence after Ms Good used her vehicle as a weapon – a version of events rejected by state and local officials.

“ICE fired two shots through her windshield into the driver. She tried to drive away but crashed into the nearest vehicle that was parked,” a second caller described the shooting to 911, adding that the driver was bleeding.

A third person told a dispatcher that ICE shot an observer in her car, and it crashed.

When asked if she could see the person who was shot, the woman replied: “I had to walk away because I have young kids, and ICE is everywhere over there…”


Renee Good was shot dead by ICE


Another perspective of the ICE shooting

Good shot in the chest, arm and head

When paramedics arrived at the scene, they found Ms Good still alive, with gunshot wounds to her chest, forearm and face, according to an incident report by the Minneapolis Fire Department.

She was “unresponsive, not breathing, with inconsistent, irregular, thready pulse activity”, with bulging eyes, dilated pupils and blood running from her left ear, according to the report.

Paramedics treated Ms Good on the sidewalk before moving her to the street corner, away “from an escalating scene involving law enforcement and bystanders”.

They applied a tourniquet and gave her CPR before she was taken to hospital in an ambulance. Hospital staff stopped resuscitation efforts at 10.30am, less than an hour after the shooting.

People stand before a makeshift memorial for Renee Good during an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis. Pic: Reuters
Image:People stand before a makeshift memorial for Renee Good during an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis. Pic: Reuters

‘Agitators’ throwing snow

In a call apparently made by a Homeland Security employee, the man said shots had been fired and that they needed assistance from paramedics and local police.

“We had officers stuck in a vehicle and we had agitators on the scene,” he said.

The first 911 calls were received at 9.38am, according to the police report. Traffic was shut down five minutes later and police taped off the scene. By 10.04am, the ICE agent who shot Ms Good had left the scene.


Video shows ICE officer’s perspective

The police report also described “agitators” in the crowd cutting crime tape, slashing tyres, throwing snow and ice “at federal agents but not at MPD [Minneapolis Police Department]”. Border Patrol officers used pepper spray about 20 minutes after the shooting.

By 11.20am, all ICE agents had left the scene, with the FBI arriving at 11.31am.

Much of the 911 transcripts have been redacted and blacked out, with hidden portions labelled “Law Enforcement”, according to NBC.