Renee Nicole Good identified by mother as woman fatally shot by ICE a!

According to federal authorities, an agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fired his weapon after believing Renee’s vehicle posed an immediate threat. Officials say her SUV clipped him, that the shooting was an act of self-defense carried out in a matter of seconds. Those statements are now part of the official record, repeated in press briefings and reports.

Her family hears something else entirely.

They hear that she was likely confused, frightened, trying to leave a chaotic scene filled with shouting, lights, and armed officers. They hear that she was a woman who hated confrontation, who froze under pressure, who would never intentionally harm someone. They hear a narrative where fear—not aggression—defined her final moments.

Video from the scene has only deepened the divide. Slowed down, replayed, analyzed frame by frame, it has become a Rorschach test for a nation already primed to argue. Some see justification. Others see an avoidable death. What almost no one sees anymore is Renee herself.

Behind the headlines is a mother now waking up to silence where her daughter’s voice used to be. There is a wife learning how to breathe through grief that arrived without warning or consent. And there is a child—still in elementary school—who has now lost both parents, shuttled between relatives and systems that speak in careful language about “next steps” and “placement.” Continue reading…