April 29 2026, 08:15 
The wife of Renee Good, the woman shot and killed by an ICE officer as she protested Trump’s immigration sweep in Minneapolis in January, is accusing the federal government of unlawfully holding the SUV in which Renee Good died.
Becca Good filed a motion on Friday for return of the vehicle, which remains shrink-wrapped and unexamined following the Department of Justice’s decision earlier this year not to investigate the killing, according to Courthouse News.
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“An armed, masked agent of the federal government killed Becca’s partner at a moment when Renee posed no meaningful threat to him,” the motion states. “Such an apparent gross abuse of power by a federal official mandates a thorough and complete inquiry into his conduct.”
Renee Good was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on January 7 as she drove away from him in the 2014 Honda Pilot. Her last words, recorded by Ross on his cell phone, were, “That’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you.”
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Trump administration officials immediately laid blame for the shooting on Renee Good, whom then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller described as a “domestic terrorist.”
Ross’s lethal force was self-defense, they said, claiming Renee Good was using her vehicle as a weapon to run Ross down. Video evidence shows Renee Good was turning away from Ross when she attempted to drive away. The SUV accelerated forward down the street and crashed into a parked car several yards away.
“The valuable evidence that could be contained in Renee and Becca Good’s Honda Pilot needs to be released to those who are working to get to the bottom of what happened on January 7,” family attorney Antonio Romanucci said in a statement to MPR News. “The federal government cannot at once declare that it will not investigate the shooting death of Renee Good by a federal agent and at the same time withhold key evidence from those seeking the truth.”
In January, Romanucci expressed concern that the federal government was impeding investigations into Ross’s actions. Examination of the vehicle could contradict their claims that he was acting in self-defense.
“Very likely, there are either some bullet fragments or bullets themselves that are inside the vehicle,” he said in an interview at the time. “There may be shell casings that wound up inside the vehicle. There may be other pieces of evidence inside that vehicle.”
The motion states that since then, the federal government has repeatedly ignored requests from the family to turn over evidence in the killing, including the couple’s SUV. Both the Good family and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), which is also investigating the case, have been blocked from access to evidence.
“Blood on surfaces in the vehicle can become dislodged or ‘flake off’ of those surfaces, such that a surface that was originally bloodstained may later appear to be void of blood,” the motion states. “Vehicle tires can deflate over time, affecting the accuracy of reconstructed bullet trajectories.”
Becca Good and the BCA should have an opportunity to “ensure that there is a complete and accurate public accounting of Renee’s killing,” the motion states, despite the federal government’s failure to provide one.
A thorough accounting of Renee Good’s killing would disprove the administration’s narrative that she was responsible for her own death, the motion states.
“Pursuing a civil rights investigation would contradict the president’s false claims that Renee ‘violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer’ who killed her.”
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