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The pistillate shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer successful Minneapolis connected Wednesday was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old parent of 3 who had precocious moved to Minnesota.
She was a U.S. national calved successful Colorado and appears to ne'er person been charged with thing involving instrumentality enforcement beyond a postulation ticket.
In societal media accounts, Macklin Good described herself arsenic a "poet and writer and woman and mom." She said she was presently "experiencing Minneapolis," displaying a pridefulness emblem emoji connected her Instagram account. A illustration representation posted to Pinterest shows her smiling and holding a young kid against her cheek, on with posts astir tattoos, hairstyles and location decorating.
Renée Nicole Good
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Her ex-husband, who asked not to beryllium named retired of interest for the information of their children, said Macklin Good had conscionable dropped disconnected her 6-year-old lad astatine schoolhouse Wednesday and was driving location with her existent spouse erstwhile they encountered a radical of ICE agents connected a snowy thoroughfare successful Minneapolis, wherever they had moved past twelvemonth from Kansas City, Missouri.
Video taken by bystanders posted to societal media shows an serviceman approaching her car, demanding she unfastened the doorway and grabbing the handle. When she begins to propulsion forward, a antithetic ICE serviceman lasting successful beforehand of the conveyance pulls his limb and instantly fires astatine slightest 2 shots into the conveyance astatine adjacent range.
In different video taken aft the shooting, a distraught pistillate is seen sitting adjacent the vehicle, wailing, "That's my wife, I don't cognize what to do!"
Calls and messages to Macklin Good's existent spouse received nary response.
Trump medication officials painted Macklin Good arsenic a home violent who had attempted to ram national agents with her car. Her ex-husband said she was nary activistic and that helium had ne'er known her to enactment successful a protestation of immoderate kind.
People stitchery for a vigil aft an Immigration and Customs Enforcement serviceman changeable and killed a pistillate earlier successful the day, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, successful Minneapolis.
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He described her arsenic a devoted Christian who took portion successful younker ngo trips to Northern Ireland erstwhile she was younger. She loved to sing, participating successful a chorus successful precocious schoolhouse and studying vocal show successful college.
She studied originative penning astatine Old Dominion University successful Virginia and won a prize successful 2020 for 1 of her works, according to a station connected the school's English section Facebook page. She besides hosted a podcast with her 2nd husband, who died successful 2023.
Macklin Good had a girl and her lad from her archetypal marriage, who are present ages 15 and 12. Her 6-year-old lad was from her 2nd marriage.
Her ex-husband said she had chiefly been a stay-at-home ma successful caller years but had antecedently worked arsenic a dental adjunct and astatine a recognition union.
Donna Ganger, her mother, told the Minnesota Star Tribune the household was notified of the decease precocious Wednesday morning.
"Renee was 1 of the kindest radical I've ever known," Ganger told the newspaper. "She was highly compassionate. She's taken attraction of radical each her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an astonishing quality being."
Ganger did not respond to calls oregon messages from the AP.
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