A once-quiet Kansas City street is reeling after news broke that a former neighbor was shot and killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was gunned down during a traffic stop on Wednesday, January 7, leaving behind three children and her partner, Becca Good.
Good had lived near 78th Terrace and Oak Street in the Waldo neighborhood until December 2024, when she and her family moved out.
Neighbors say they were headed to Canada. The tragedy hit hard back in Kansas City, where those who once lived near her are struggling to understand how this could happen.
Renee Nicole Good's Neighbor Speaks Out
Joan Rose, a neighbor from East 78th Terrace, said she was rocked by the revelation that Good had died during an ICE operation.
“This, this is not, no one could imagine this,” Rose said, per KY3.
Rose remembered the family as “lovely neighbors” and shared that although they weren’t close, they often exchanged words in passing.
The family, she said, included “two moms with a little boy at home and two older children who visited routinely.”
“My immediate reaction was shock,” Rose continued. “I know that we’re all affected by the ICE raids going on right now. I didn’t think it would hit this hard, this close to home.”
ICE claims self-defense, but video tells a different story
The fatal shooting occurred during a high-profile ICE crackdown in Minneapolis, part of a wider federal operation involving more than 2,000 officers deployed to the Twin Cities under the Trump administration.
According to witnesses, Good was shot while driving away during the stop, with a family member reportedly present.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem quickly labeled the act “an act of domestic terrorism,” claiming Good had “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle.”
But video footage from the scene tells a different story.
A newly surfaced clip appears to show Good trying to flee rather than attack.
In the footage, an officer attempts to enter her SUV as she reverses and cuts the wheel right. A second officer stands in front of the vehicle as she begins to move.
The vehicle clips him lightly — not enough to knock him down — before he fires a shot through the front windshield and two more through her open side window.
Her vehicle then crashes into a parked white car roughly 100 feet away.
Public reaction has been fierce.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey didn’t hold back, saying: “To ICE, get the f*** out of Minneapolis. They are not here to cause safety in this city. What they are doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust.”
Frey added: “They’re ripping families apart. They’re sowing chaos on our streets and in this case quite literally killing people.”
He also dismissed claims of self-defense. “They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I wanna tell everybody directly, that is bulls**t.”