NEW REVELATION: The fateful 10 seconds and Renee Good’s last 5 words. A witness claims she stopped her car and spoke to an anonymous person before the incident. Many believe these pivotal moments changed everything
Lynette Reini-Grandell told NewsNation’s Laura Ingle that she was out with her partner, Venus De Mars, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, to monitor ICE agents in Minneapolis who were near a school and make sure that students and parents were alright during morning drop-off when they got word of another area where federal agents would be.
Reini-Grandell said once she got to the other area, she saw several ICE vehicles scattered in weird positions in the street and also saw what she realized was Good’s vehicle surrounded just moments before she was shot and killed.
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“I thought they were just trying to target a house, so I was just taking video and just searching both sides of the street and crossed over, and that’s when I heard three shots and the boom of her car hitting the light pole and the parked car across the street, and I just knew that she’d gotten shot and lost control of the vehicle,” Reini-Grandell said. “They would not let us go to the scene to assist her and kept pushing us and threatening us with their guns; it was very upsetting.”
De Mars took a video of emergency personnel on the scene later giving Renee CPR. She said she was on the other side of the crash site at the time after Lynette told her about what happened.
“I didn’t know how she’d gotten from the car, which I had seen down there to the corner, but it became apparent that it was because the ambulance couldn’t get through the ICE blockade; they had to walk in and physically carry her out of the car and to the corner,” De Mars said.
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“I understood that if they were doing CPR to a person who’d been shot, this is not good,” De Mars continued. “Instead of treating a gunshot wound, they were trying to keep her heart going, and then when they drove off without a siren, I knew she was gone at that point. It’s just horrendous.”
With protests erupting over Good’s shooting, De Mars said her concern lies with the militarization of ICE agents, and not with protesters.
“They’re acting as if they’re some private army of the [Trump] administration and above the law,” she said. “That’s what I’m worried about.”
When lifelong Minnesota resident Betsy went outside for a walk on Wednesday morning, she said she never expected to witness a federal agent shooting a woman in her own neighborhood.
“I could tell that my body was in a state of shock,” Betsy, who asked not to have her last name published, told ABC News. “I felt really scared by what was happening and was in a kind of a state of terror and fear.”
A woman who was later identified as Minneapolis resident 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed on Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during an operation in the city.
Law enforcement attempt to enter a vehicle prior to an ICE officer fatally shooting the driver during an incident in Minneapolis, Jan. 7, 2026.
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According to Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, Good was allegedly “attempting to run over our law enforcement officers” with her car when an ICE officer fatally shot her.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have disputed the federal government’s claims surrounding what led up to the shooting, claiming video of the incident shows the agent’s actions were not self-defense.
Betsy said that before the incident, she heard whistles and horns in her Minneapolis neighborhood of Powderhorn and followed the sounds to see what was going on.
After heading west on East 34th Street and making a right on Portland Avenue, she said she saw “a cluster of vehicles in the middle of the street, including a maroon SUV.”
A number of neighbors whistled in protest at a group of federal agents on the street, she explained, adding that one agent yelled at the female driver in the SUV through the window of her car.
“It appeared to me that she was endeavoring to kind of adjust her car so that it was facing more south,” Betsy said. “And then it was clear at one point that she started to accelerate, trying to move her vehicle out of the cluster of cars south on Portland Avenue.”
“At the time that she just started to accelerate, one of the agents was yelling through her car window,” she continued, saying she saw the agent fire multiple shots.
Law enforcement officers are seen after an ICE officer fatally shot the driver of a vehicle during an incident in Minneapolis, Jan. 7, 2026.
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Immediately following the shooting, the SUV shifted forward roughly 10 feet, according to Betsy, at which point it became clear that the driver “lost control of the car.”
“I could see that her head was lulled back on the driver’s side headrest, and that there was a lot of blood,” Betsy said. “Her car kind of slowly collided with a parked car on the east side of Portland Avenue, just a few feet in front of me.”
Minneapolis police said preliminary information indicates that Good was in her car and blocking the road before the shooting.
“At some point, a federal law enforcement officer approached her on foot, and the vehicle began to drive off,” police said. “At least two shots were fired … the vehicle then crashed on the side of the roadway.”
“There is nothing to indicate that this woman was the target of any law enforcement investigation or activity,” police added.
Betsy claimed that the agents were standing next to and behind the SUV near the driver’s side window before and at the moment shots were fired, but no agents were in front of the vehicle at the time.
The Department of Homeland Security has said there was an agent in front of the vehicle.
Besty said that in the moments that followed the shooting, a neighbor ran across the street to the driver’s side of the SUV and opened the door to check on the driver’s condition.
After the neighbor told bystanders to call 911, Betsy said she tried doing so but couldn’t get through.
Minneapolis Police officers secure the area as membes of the community gather near the scene where a driver was shot by a U.S. immigration agent, according to local and federal officials, in Minneapolis, Jan. 7, 2026.
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At one point, another neighbor approached the SUV and identified himself as a physician, Betsy said, noting that the man urged federal agents to help stop the bleeding.
Witnessing the shooting firsthand had an acute effect on Betsy, she said, who described how her diverse community had been on edge recently following a reported increase in immigration enforcement activity in Minneapolis.
“I can tell my nervous system is still in a bit of shock,” she said. “I feel a lot of grief, and I feel a lot of anger and I feel fiercely proud of where I’m from and the community that I’m a part of, and I want to do anything I can to support it being healthy and safe.”
Following the shooting, a large crowd gathered in the area, which is less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed in May 2020.
Gov. Walz said he has issued a “warning order” to prepare the Minnesota National Guard, saying there are soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed “if necessary,” while urging “peaceful resistance.”
