A painting of Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minnesota last week, painted by community member Lois Miller, is displayed during a vigil for Renee at Boycott Bar in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., January 15, 2026. REUTERS/Caitlin O'Hara
After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross shot unarmed 37-year-old motorist Renee Nicole Good three times in Minneapolis on Wednesday, January 7, a physician hoped to help her. But an ICE agent angrily ordered him to go away. And according to reporting in the New York Times, police and fire records released on January 15 show that Good was still alive at that point.
Noting that Good was "found in her vehicle with two gunshot wounds to her chest and another to her forearm," the Times reports, "The responders found Ms. Good unresponsive inside her Honda SUV on January 7, and after they removed her from the vehicle, she was not breathing and had an irregular pulse, according to one of the reports. She also had a possible gunshot wound to the left side of her head. By the time the workers took her out of her vehicle, she had no pulse, and they performed CPR on her as she was rushed to a hospital, the report said."
The New Republic's Malcolm Ferguson, in an article published on January 16, emphasizes that Good "was still alive when ICE agents were blocking a physician from tending to her."
Ferguson notes, "This comes after an initial video captured by bystanders showed ICE agents screaming at a medic who offered help as Good lay dying in her car."
After Good was shot, the medic asked ICE agents, "Can I go check a pulse?" And an ICE agent barked at him, "No! Back up!"
When the medic told the ICE agent, "I'm a physician," he responded, "I don't care."
After that, EMS arrived.
Ferguson explains, "They arrived and performed CPR on Good — who had two gunshots in her chest and one on her arm — before taking her to the hospital, where she later died.
Read the New York Times' reporting at this link (subscription required) and Malcolm Ferguson's article for The New Republic here.