The final moments of a 37-year-old woman who was shot dead by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer have been immortalized through bloodcurdling videos shot from several angles.
The woman, identified by her mother Renee Nicole Good, was gunned down after she allegedly drove her car at agents amid Donald Trump‘s latest immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
Federal officials have claimed the shooting was an act of self-defense, while the city’s mayor had condemned it as ‘reckless’ and unnecessary.
The Minnesota city was rocked by the murder of George Floyd by a police officer just over five years ago, and residents are now reeling from another controversial act of violence by a law enforcement official.
As lawmakers appear divided over who is to blame for the horror, raw footage of the incident provides some evidence of how the tragedy unfolded.
The first video circulated on social media shows an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road and trying to open the driver’s side door.
Seconds later, the car drives away and a different ICE officer standing in front of the car fires at least two shots toward the driver.
The SUV appeared to knock the officer back but not down. The car then sped into two cars parked on a curb nearby before crashing to a stop.
Witnesses screamed obscenities, expressing shock at what they had just seen.
Another video, shot from an apartment window, shows the carnage unfold from above.
The shots can be heard ringing out while people in the building and outside scream in horror.
Seconds later, the black SUV rolls forwards as the motorist lost control of the vehicle.
The higher angle shows that the car rolled for several meters before coming to a crashing halt as it struck the curb.
A third harrowing video shows the a woman who claimed to be the wife of the motorist shot dead breaking down in tears on the ground.
‘That’s my wife!’ she sobbed, before her voice became unintelligible. ‘I have a six-year-old at school.’
The man filming asked if she had ‘called any of your people yet?’ to which she replied ‘We are new here… I can’t even breathe right now.’
The man can then be heard telling another bystander that ICE agents ‘just shot her in the head’.
The woman’s SUV was seen with a bullet hole through the driver’s side windshield.
Witnesses claimed the woman and her wife were acting as legal observers and filming the protest when she was shot.
But ICE insisted the woman tried to use the SUV as a deadly weapon.
Good was named by her mother Donna Ganger, who spoke to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on Wednesday afternoon.
‘That’s so stupid’, Ganger said of her daughter’s death. ‘She was probably terrified.’ Ganger also insisted Good was ‘not part of anything like that,’ referring to protests against ICE taking place around the time and place where Good was killed.
Wednesday’s shooting marks a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major American cities under the Trump administration.
The killing of the Minneapolis motorist was at least the fifth in a handful of states since 2024.
