What we know about Renee Good, former KC resident shot and killed by ICE

Judy L. Thomas and Caroline Zimmerman, The Kansas City Star on Jan 7, 2026

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The woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday lived in Kansas City as recently as fall of 2023, court records show.

Renee Good filed a petition in Jackson County Circuit Court on Oct. 18, 2023, to change her last name. She gave an address in Kansas City.

According to her petition, Good wanted to change her last name from Renee Nicole Macklin to Renee Nicole Macklin Good. Her stated reason for the name change: “I want to share a name with my partner.”

The document said Good had three children, who at the time of the filing were ages 13, 10 and 3. The two older children lived in Colorado, and the youngest lived in Kansas City, it said.

A judgment approving the uncontested name change was entered on Nov. 21, 2023.

Good, 37, died Wednesday after being shot by an ICE agent during a targeted operation in Minneapolis. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said at a news conference that one of the agent’s vehicles had become stuck in some snow and they were attempting to push it out when the woman “weaponized her vehicle” and tried to run over them. Noem called it an act of domestic terrorism.

But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other officials disputed the DHS claims, saying videos showed the woman driving away from agents, not aiming at them. Frey said at a news conference that ICE was “already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense.”

“Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly, that is b---s---,” he said. “This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody getting killed. Your only reason for being in our city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing the opposite.”

He then said he had a message for ICE: “Get the f--- out of Minneapolis.”

Photos and video from the scene showed a Honda Pilot with a bullet hole in the windshield. The vehicle had a Missouri license plate.

Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, confirmed her identity to the media in Minneapolis. She said Good lived in Minneapolis with her partner.

“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” Ganger told the Minnesota Star Tribune. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”

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