The woman who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday has been identified as Renee Nicole Good. She was a 37-year-old mother of three and a U.S. citizen.

On Good's Instagram account, which displays a pride flag emoji, she described herself as a "poet and writer and wife and mom."

Good spent much of her life in Colorado, where she was born. She attended Old Dominion University in Virginia and graduated with a degree in English in 2020, according to a statement from the university’s president, Brian Hemphill.

He called Good’s killing "yet another clear example that fear and violence have sadly become commonplace in our nation."

"May Renee’s life be a reminder of what unites us: freedom, love, and peace," Hemphill wrote. "My hope is for compassion, healing, and reflection at a time that is becoming one of the darkest and most uncertain periods in our nation’s history.”

Good had a 6-year-old son from her second marriage. Before moving to Minneapolis, she briefly moved to Kansas City, Mo., to live with her parents, after her second husband, a military veteran and comedian, died in 2023. The pair used to host a podcast together, according to a brief bio from a Facebook post that recognized a 2020 poetry prize she received.

Good also had a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son from her first marriage.

Good’s ex-husband said in recent years she had primarily been a stay-at-home mom, but had also worked as a dental assistant and at a credit union. He described her as a devout Christian who loved to sing.

He said Good wasn’t an activist and that he didn’t have any knowledge of her participating in any protests.

Good’s ex-husband said she had just dropped her 6-year-old son off at school and was driving home with her current partner before the shooting occurred, according to the Associated Press.

Video taken by witnesses at the scene shows that her car was parked horizontally across the right lane of a one-way residential street when she encountered a group of ICE agents. The agent demanded that Good get out of the car and grabbed the car handle. A different ICE officer standing in front of her car immediately pulled his weapon and fired at least two shots into the vehicle.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said that local authorities found Good with a gunshot wound to the head and that she was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Trump administration officials have portrayed Good as a domestic terrorist who attempted to run down federal agents with her car. They have defended the ICE agent, saying he acted in self-defense.

Vice President JD Vance said during Thursday’s White House press briefing, "I can believe her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it is a tragedy of her own making.” Vance also alleged, without evidence, that she was part of a "far-left movement, a lunatic fringe" that was targeting ICE.

Several state leaders said that Good was at the scene of an ICE raid as a legal observer, that is, as a volunteer who monitors and documents federal law enforcement actions in the city. The Minneapolis City Council described Good as a resident who was out “caring for her neighbors” when she was killed.

Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that her daughter was “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”

“She was extremely compassionate,” Ganger told the newspaper. “She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”

Ganger said that her daughter was "not part of anything" that involved protests against ICE.

It appears that Good has never been charged with anything involving law enforcement, except for a traffic ticket, according to the Associated Press.