A GoFundMe benefitting the widow and son of a Minneapolis woman fatally shot by an ICE agent has well surpassed its goal.
On Wednesday (January 7), 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot while an ICE agent was conducting operations in Minneapolis, in the area of East 34th Street and Portland Avenue.
According to Newsweek, the unnamed officer shot Good in the head while she was behind the wheel of her Honda Pilot. The woman was reported to have briefly reversed before turning her vehicle to the right, prompting the officer to fire three shots into the windshield and window.
Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez claimed the woman was "watching out for our immigrant neighbors."
But just as Good was an advocate for her community, thousands showed up for the woman's widow, Rebecca Good, and Good's six-year-old son from her second marriage. In less than a day since being established, the fundraiser has well surpassed its $50,000 goal and reached $738,482 as of Thursday (January 8) afternoon. Good reportedly has two other children, a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son, from her first marriage.
"Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating loss of their wife and mother," the page's description reads. "Renee was pure sunshine, pure love. She will be desperately missed."
The highest donation of $10,000 came from Uruguayan-American social activist Carlos Eduardo Espina, who posted a TikTok about the tragedy.
Rebecca was outside the vehicle during the shooting and told a fellow resident that she felt to blame for her wife's murder after inviting her to participate in a local ICE protest. "I made her come down here, it’s my fault," Rebecca told a bystander in the clip below.
While Homeland Security and Trump Administration officials have alleged that the deceased woman acted as the aggressor, Good's mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that her daughter was "one of the kindest people" she's known.
"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," Ganger continued.