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An eyewitness to the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by a federal agent on Wednesday told Newsweek that her blood was visible on the snowy ground.
Speaking in the hours after the incident in a residential neighborhood, the witness described the moments after the federal agent shot the woman through a car window.
"They just shot her in the head, she crashed, and then a lady came into the yard, and she was crying in the snow,” the witness, who spoke to Newsweek on condition of anonymity, said.
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"The snow had blood on it, that's the blood from the lady who died, but it came off the other person's face. It came off her wife's face, that she had blood all over.”
The Context
The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that the federal agent shot at the woman in self-defense, as she had tried to run him down and other agents. Video footage quickly spread online, appearing to show a different version of events, with Democrats calling for ICE to leave the city.
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What To Know
The man told Newsweek that he heard three shots fired on Wednesday morning. When he went to investigate, he saw the woman’s car had crashed into a phone pole.
“The passenger is on the driver's side of the car, and she's hugging her, and she's like, wholly crying,” the man said, explaining that no medical assistance came.
The deceased woman was later named as Renee Nicole Good, per The Minnesota Star Tribune. Earlier, local officials said she was a 37-year-old white woman. The witness said he understood the woman was not a local.
DHS said that the woman had been blocking ICE agents before she sought to weaponize her vehicle in an act of “domestic terrorism” by driving at officers. The agent who shot her did so in self-defense, the department said.
The video footage now widely shared online appeared to show the woman’s vehicle parked across the street, but cars were still able to pass by. As agents approached her driver’s side window, she turned the vehicle to drive away, and this was the moment shots were fired.
The car then veered off into the curb, hitting the phone pole.
Minneapolis officials said the woman was taken to the nearby Hennepin County Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the head, and she was pronounced dead there.
What People Are Saying
Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz, speaking Wednesday afternoon: “We have been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety. Today it cost a person her life.”
President Donald Trump, on Truth Social: “I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.”
**Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, speaking Wednesday: "**To the family. I'm so deeply sorry. There's nothing that I can say right now that it's going to make you or your relatives or the friends of the victim feel any better."
**DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, in a statement to Newsweek: "**This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement who are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats. This is an evolving situation, and we will give the public more information as soon as it becomes available.”
What Happens Next
While DHS has condemned sanctuary city policies and leaders for escalating violence towards agents, Minnesota officials have promised thorough investigations into Wednesday’s events.
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