Poster with picture of Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Photo credit: Charly Triballeau / AFP / Profimedia
Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman killed last week in Minneapolis by an ICE agent, had four gunshot wounds when emergency services arrived, according to a fire department report cited by several US media on Friday.
According to this paramedic report, obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune newspaper, Renee Good had two wounds to her chest, one to her arm and one to her head, reports France Presse and Agerpres.
Paramedics found Renee Good unconscious in her car with blood on her face and body. The woman was not breathing and had an “incoherent and irregular” pulse, according to the report cited by the local daily.
She had two wounds on the right side of her chest, one on her left forearm and one “on the left side of her head,” the report details. Blood was flowing from the woman's left ear, and the pupils were dilated, the report states.
Firefighters tried in vain to revive Renee Good at the scene of the incident, and later in the ambulance that transported the woman to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
According to a transcript of emergency calls, excerpted by several media outlets, a 911 caller told operators, “There are 15 ICE officers. They pulled over because the woman wouldn't open her car door. Send an ambulance please, an ambulance please,” the 911 caller said.
President Donald Trump's administration claims the ICE officer who opened fire acted in self-defense. To date, the respective policeman has not been the subject of any legal proceedings.
The FBI blocked the state authorities' investigation
Minnesota state and federal officials have given starkly different accounts of the fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCA) said shortly after the incident that it initially agreed with the FBI to conduct a joint investigation into the incident, but the federal agency “changed direction” and took sole control of the investigation. The decision, according to BCA Commissioner Drew Evans, means the state office will no longer have access to evidence at the scene, case files or witness interviews.
“As a result, the BCA has regrettably withdrawn from the investigation,” Evans said.
Keith Ellison, the state's Democratic attorney general, told CNN that the FBI's decision is “extremely troubling” and that state authorities can investigate with or without the cooperation of the federal government. He added that the evidence he has seen, including some that has not yet been made public, points to the possibility of state-level charges.
But US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem told the media that the BCA has not been “eliminated” but has no jurisdiction.
Minnesota's Democratic governor, Tim Walz, a former Democratic vice presidential candidate, said at a news conference that any federal investigation without the state's involvement would likely be considered a “cover-up.”
“And I'm only saying this because people in positions of power… from the president to the vice president and up to Kristi Noem have already made judgments and told you things that are verifiably false,” he said.
