Wife of woman killed by ICE makes first public statement since shooting
The wife of Renee Good, the woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer this week in Minneapolis, spoke out Friday for the first time since the incident and said her partner had been “made of sunshine.”
“This kindness from strangers is the most fitting tribute,” Becca Good wrote in a statement published by Minneapolis Public Radioreferring to the public support he has received since his wife’s death, “because if you ever meet my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that, above all, she was kind. In fact, kindness radiated from her.”
Renee Good, 37, was shot and killed by an ICE officer Wednesday morning while she was in her car. Videos taken by bystanders show Good attempting to turn his car onto a street where several ICE officers were present. Three of them surrounded her car as she reversed and drove forward. As he tried to drive away, an immigration officer fired three shots through his windshield and the open driver’s side window.
Becca Good was on foot, outside the vehicle, when the shots were fired.
“Renee was glowing. She was literally glowing,” Becca Good wrote. “I mean, she didn’t wear glitter, but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking, but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunlight.”
Becca Good thanked people for the overwhelming support she and her family received across the country this week and wrote that she, Renee and their son recently moved from Kansas City, Missouri, to Minneapolis. “There was a strong shared feeling here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I finally found peace and safe harbor,” Becca wrote. “That has been taken away from me forever.”
Rene Bueno leave behind three children, two from his first marriage and a third from his second marriage. She had just dropped her youngest son, 6, at elementary school when she and her wife encountered ICE agents on the street, her ex-husband said The News.
“We stopped to support our neighbors,” Becca Good wrote in her statement. “We had whistles. They had guns.”
Thousands have marched cross country to mourn Renee Good and condemn ICE since Wednesday’s fatal shooting. The Department of Homeland Security has claimed that the officer shot through Renee Good’s window in self-defense, alleging that Good attempted to run over the officer with his car during an ICE operation. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Renee Good of perpetrating “an act of domestic terrorism.” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey dismissed the DHS allegation as “shit.”
No video of the incident shows Renee Good attempting to run over ICE agents with her car. Instead, images of bystanders of the incident questions the Trump administration’s narrative and shows that Renee Good was trying to walk away when the officer fired his gun.
Read Becca Good’s full statement here.