Family of Renee Good speaks out nearly two months after fatal shooting by ICE officer

The family of Renee Good told NBC News they’re positive that she was not attempting to hit the ICE officer with her SUV moments before she was shot and killed. Bennett Haeberle reports.

The family of Renee Good told NBC News this week that they’re positive that she was not attempting to hit the ICE officer with her SUV moments before she was fatally shot.

“I feel like we’re the ones who know Renee; no one else knows Renee,” Good’s brother, Luke Granger, said in an NBC News interview that aired Friday. “And for me the default thing when you hear the noise is just – I don’t know - to a degree it’s easy to tune out because no one knew her.”

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The family told NBC News that they have not watched the viral cell phone that shows Good and her partner, Becca’s, interaction with ICE officer Jonathan Ross in the moments before he opened in fire in early January on a street in Minneapolis.

“The only thing I saw of that day was her saying, I'm not mad at you. And that was so Renee,” her mother, Donna Granger said. “…I’m not mad at you, that was just her.”

The FBI’s investigation into the matter remains ongoing. In an emailed response, a spokesperson declined to comment on the status of the investigation Friday when reached by NBC 5 Investigates.

The cell phone footage taken Jan. 7 from what appeared to be the ICE officer who fired - Jonathan Ross - captures an interaction between Renee Good and her partner moments before the shooting.

“It’ll be the same plate when you come talk to us later, that’s fine,” a woman’s voice can be heard saying. “You wanna come at us? You wanna come at us…”

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Gunshots ring out a few moments later.

A Chicago law firm representing the family said an independent autopsy commissioned by Good’s family shows she was shot three times– once to her left forearm, once to her right breast and another that entered her left temple area of her head.

At the time of shooting, Department of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem said Good had ignored agents’ demands to get out of the car. Videos contradicted President Donald Trump’s initial comments at the time of the shooting that Good had “viciously” run over the officer. The videos show Ross’ legs were to the side of the SUV when he fired.

Good’s family sa thidey’re positive she was not attempt to hit Officer Ross with her SUV.

DHS’ use of force policy offers conflicting statements – noting that law enforcement officers “are prohibited from discharging firearms at the operator of a moving vehicle…” but also that “deadly force is authorized to prevent the escape of a fleeing subject…” if the subject poses a significant threat of death or harm to officers or others.

The shooting of Good – and the fatal shooting weeks later of another American, Alex Pretti – spurred public pushback and national protests.

It ultimately ended with a drawn down of immigration agents in Minnesota and no immediate plans by DHS for additional surges in other cities like during Chicago last fall.