The woman neighbors described as someone who was always “looking out for others” was killed just blocks from her home, in a moment that has since fractured an entire community.
Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed during a confrontation with federal officers on January 7, 2026, in Minneapolis. She was 37 years old. What unfolded that snowy morning has sparked nationwide outrage, conflicting official narratives, and profound grief among those who knew her—not as a headline, but as a mother, a writer, and a trusted neighbor.
For her family and community, this is not a political abstraction. It is a loss that feels both sudden and impossible to accept.
Good lived only a few blocks from where she died, in a neighborhood where she was known and welcomed. According to her mother, Donna Ganger, she shared a home with her partner and was deeply rooted in family life. She was raising several children: a teenage daughter and son from her first marriage, and a six-year-old son she had with her late second husband, Timmy Ray Macklin Jr.