A 37-year-old woman was shot and killed by a U.S. immigration agent in Minneapolis, triggering overnight protests and sharp criticism from city leaders.
Federal authorities identified the woman as Renee Nicole Good and said she attempted to run over immigration agents with her vehicle, prompting the use of deadly force. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, however, disputed that account, saying the agent who fired the shot acted recklessly and raised serious concerns about the use of force.
Videos circulating online appear to show immigration agents surrounding a car stopped in the middle of a Minneapolis street moments before the fatal shooting. As the vehicle tries to pull away, one agent is seen aiming his gun at the driver, followed by the sound of at least two gunshots.
The FBI has since taken over the investigation into the killing. The incident comes amid a heavy federal presence in the city, with hundreds of ICE agents deployed to Minneapolis as part of the White House’s broader crackdown on illegal immigration, a move that has already drawn scrutiny from local officials and community groups.
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Mayor Frey, a Democrat, lashed out at federal immigration agents after the shooting, at one point using an expletive to demand they leave the city.
Videos shared on social media appear to capture the shooting, which took place around 10:25 a.m. local time on Wednesday. The clips, filmed from multiple angles, show a maroon SUV stopped across a residential street in Minneapolis, with a group of people lining the sidewalk, seemingly in protest. Law enforcement vehicles can be seen parked nearby.
ICE agents then approach the SUV, get out of their vehicle and order the woman in the driver’s seat to step out. One agent is seen pulling at the driver-side door handle, while another stands near the front of the vehicle as the situation escalates.
As the maroon SUV tries to pull away, one of the agents opens fire. The vehicle appears to veer out of control moments later and crashes into a car parked along the street.
Reacting to the incident, President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that an ICE officer had been “viciously” run over. “It is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital,” he wrote.
Trump also placed blame on the “Radical Left,” accusing them of “threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis”.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the woman was sitting in her vehicle and blocking traffic on Portland Avenue when a federal law enforcement officer approached her on foot. “And she began to drive off,” O’Hara said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem offered a sharply different account, saying the woman had been “stalking and impeding” officers throughout the day and had tried to “weaponize her vehicle” to run over an agent, describing the act as “domestic terrorism.”
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Noem said the federal agent responded by firing “defensive shots” and was injured in the incident. He was later treated at a local hospital and discharged.
City leaders in Minneapolis pushed back on that version of events. In a statement, the City Council said Good was simply “caring for her neighbors” when she was shot and killed.
Noem also noted that the same agent had been struck by a car while on duty in June. She said ICE operations in Minneapolis would continue and confirmed that the FBI is investigating Wednesday’s shooting.
Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin weighed in on the growing backlash against ICE agents, posting a strong defense of the agency on X. “ICE agents aren’t Disney villains. They’re our neighbors, friends, and loved ones. These immigration and customs enforcement officers are red-blooded American patriots doing a tough job to keep our nation safe. Assaults against ICE are up 1,300%. I stand with @DHSgov,” Mullin wrote.
His post quickly drew sharp criticism online, with several users pushing back against his framing of the incident. One user responded, “You dont think the 37-year-old American mother that ICE murdered was a neighbor, friend, and loved one?!” Another wrote, “more like cold-blooded murderers.”
Another comment read, “Go ahead and stand with ICE. If you care about their mission, you should denounce the bumbler who murdered an American citizen today.”
Senior Democrats also weighed in as anger over the shooting spread. Former Vice President Kamala Harris accused the Trump administration of “gaslighting” in its account of what happened, while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued a separate statement raising concerns over the federal response.
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Protests and marches erupted across several parts of Minneapolis, with residents denouncing the killing and demanding that ICE leave the city. The shooting took place roughly a mile from the site where George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, an event that sparked global protests against racism and police violence.
Demonstrations were also being planned in other U.S. cities, including New Orleans, Miami, Seattle and New York City, as outrage over the incident grew.
Minneapolis Public Schools announced that classes were cancelled for the remainder of the week “due to safety concerns.” The decision followed reports that federal agents had made arrests outside a local high school on Wednesday.
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has deployed an additional 2,000 federal agents to the Minneapolis area amid allegations of welfare fraud in Minnesota.
At a press conference on Wednesday, the mayor said ICE was not making the city safer. “They’re ripping families apart, they’re sowing chaos in our streets,” he said.
The federal deployment, which began on Sunday, represents one of the largest concentrations of Department of Homeland Security personnel in a U.S. city in recent years.