Renee Good had 4 gunshot wounds, Fire Department report reveals

Brooks Johnson, The Minnesota Star Tribune on Jan 16, 2026

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MINNEAPOLIS — Renee Good was found with gunshot wounds to the chest, arm and head after a federal immigration officer shot her the morning of Jan. 7, according to the Minneapolis Fire Department’s incident report.

Paramedics found Good unresponsive in her car with blood on her face and torso at 9:42 a.m. She was not breathing, and her pulse was “inconsistent” and “irregular,” according to the report obtained through a state Data Practices Act request.

The Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Metro Surge” has been touted by the Trump administration as the largest immigration crackdown to date. Thousands of federal agents have fanned out across the Twin Cities, a group that far surpasses any single Minnesota police force

Minnesota and federal officials have clashed over the investigation into Good’s shooting, after the FBI took sole ownership of the probe. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Minnesota officials don’t have jurisdiction to investigate. Amid heightened tensions between protesters and federal agents on Twin Cities streets, Gov. Tim Walz has called on the president to “end this occupation.”

There were two gunshot wounds to Good’s right chest, one on her left forearm and one “with protruding tissue on the left side of the patient’s head” the report said. Blood was flowing out of her left ear.

Good was brought to a snowbank and then the sidewalk to get “separation from an escalating scene involving law enforcement and bystanders,” the report went on.

At that point, the 37-year-old was “still not breathing and pulseless.”

Lifesaving efforts continued at the scene, in an ambulance and at HCMC. CPR was discontinued at the hospital at 10:30 a.m.

A 911 caller told dispatchers “they shot her [because] she wouldn’t open her car door,” according to transcripts. “Send an ambulance please, ambulance please.”

A man at the scene who identified himself as a physician tried to offer medical aid to Good. Federal agents told the man that medics were on their way.

Neither the purported doctor nor the agent in the exchange has been identified. But experts in emergency response said both were likely acting within their training, and they couldn’t determine whether bystander aid might have changed the outcome. Good was taken to HCMC in Minneapolis after she was shot in the head while trying to flee the federal agents and pronounced dead at the hospital, according to Minneapolis police accounts and video of the scene.

Doctors and other licensed medical professionals and first responders in Minnesota are obliged to help injured people at emergency scenes under the state’s Good Samaritan law. However, when law enforcement agents are in control, they have authority to accept or refuse that help as they assess the safety and security of emergency scenes, medical and EMS officials told the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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—Jeremy Olson and Liz Sawyer of the Minnesota Star Tribune contributed reporting.

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