What are Minneapolis' official statements and documented timelines regarding Renee Good's residency and the location of the January 7, 2026 shooting?
Executive summary
Minneapolis officials have consistently described Renée (Renée Nicole Macklin) Good as a Minneapolis resident who lived with her partner and child, and the city’s published timeline places the fatal shooting on January 7, 2026, on a residential street at or near 34th Street and Portland Avenue in south Minneapolis during federal ICE enforcement operations [1] [2] [3]. City and state leaders rapidly disputed the federal account, asked the public for videos and eyewitness accounts, and initiated requests for state-level scrutiny in the days following the shooting [4] [5] [6].
1. Minneapolis’ official language about Good’s residency
From the outset Minneapolis’ elected leaders framed Good as a local resident: the City Council released a joint statement calling her “a resident of our city” who “was out caring for her neighbors” when she was killed, and local reporting repeatedly describes her as living in Minneapolis with her partner and child [3] [1]. Multiple outlets and local statements echo that characterization; her family and partner have also been quoted in news coverage describing her as a Minneapolis resident [2] [7]. Those official and family statements form the basis for the city’s public claim of her residency in all primary public responses [3] [1].
2. Officially documented location of the January 7 shooting
Minneapolis’ public timeline and major local and national outlets identify the scene as a residential street in south Minneapolis — repeatedly narrowed in reporting to the 34th Street and Portland Avenue area — and describe Good’s vehicle stopped diagonally on Portland Avenue when the ICE agent approached [1] [2] [8]. Local authorities, including the Minneapolis Police Department spokesperson, told reporters the incident was the only recorded shooting in the city up to that date, reinforcing that the event occurred within Minneapolis municipal boundaries on Jan. 7 [6] [8].
3. Timeline of official city and state responses in the days after Jan. 7
In the immediate aftermath city officials — including Mayor Jacob Frey and the City Council — publicly demanded explanations and called for ICE to leave the neighborhood, while Governor Tim Walz and the city asked residents to share footage and eyewitness accounts; both the Hennepin County prosecutor and Attorney General Keith Ellison signaled interest in ensuring a state-level investigation could proceed [9] [4] [5]. By Jan. 9 state and local offices were soliciting videos and accounts, and Governor Walz publicly criticized federal messaging around the incident [4] [3]. The city also saw almost immediate public vigils, protests and expanded scrutiny of federal operations in Minneapolis [7].
4. Federal narrative and investigative timeline tied to the shooting
Federal officials initially justified the agent’s actions as defensive amid ongoing ICE enforcement activity; Department of Homeland Security spokespeople described the operation as targeted immigration enforcement on Jan. 7 [1]. In the following weeks the Justice Department’s posture evolved: public statements reported that DOJ leadership did not plan a criminal civil-rights investigation into the ICE agent based on available evidence, even as reporting cited an FBI agent’s preliminary assessment that met the threshold for a civil-rights inquiry — a discrepancy that became part of national coverage of investigatory decisions [10].
5. Evidence, videos and the contested minute-by-minute narrative
City requests for videos and eyewitness accounts reflect how pivotal footage and metadata have been to reconstructing the encounter; local outlets published minute-by-minute timelines and noted video showing Good’s SUV stopped diagonally on a residential street and an ICE agent walking around the vehicle before gunfire [11] [8]. Officials from the city and state have publicly disputed federal framing of the event and urged skepticism of the federal account while investigators collected available video and 911 transcripts to build an evidentiary timeline [3] [8] [11].
6. What Minneapolis’ official record does not (yet) settle
Minneapolis’ official statements establish residency, a south Minneapolis residential location (near 34th & Portland), and a rapid sequence of city and state requests for evidence and oversight; however, public sources in this dataset also show competing federal assertions of self‑defense and a DOJ decision not to pursue a criminal civil‑rights probe — matters that remain contested and partly unresolved in public reporting [1] [10]. The provided sources document the municipal claims and the procedural timeline of responses and investigations, but they do not contain a completed, authoritative criminal finding from either state or federal prosecutors that resolves all factual disputes [4] [10].