'We had whistles. They had guns': Renee Nicole Good's wife speaks out
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAYJanuary 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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The wife of the Minneapolis woman fatally shot by an ICE agent this week is sharing more about who the 37-year-old was and why the couple was at an immigration enforcement operation.
Becca Good and her wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, had simply "stopped to support our neighbors" on Jan. 7, Becca Good said in a statement released to Minnesota Public Radio.
"We had whistles. They had guns," she said. "The people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts."
She described her wife as kind above all else. "In fact, kindness radiated out of her," Becca Good said.
"Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow," she said. "Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole."
Here's what else Becca Good shared about her wife:
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Renee Good was the mother of "three extraordinary children," Becca Good said.
She said that Renee's youngest is a 6-year-old boy who already lost his father. She and Renee were raising him together and had moved to Minneapolis from Colorado "to make a better life for ourselves."
Becca said that she and Renee were raising the boy "to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness."
"I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way," she said.
On the couple's road trip to move to Minnesota, she recalled how they held hands in the car while their son drew on the windows in the backseat.
"What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy," she said. "And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor."
She added: "That has been taken from me forever."
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Becca Good said that her wife "sparkled."
"She literally sparkled," she said. "I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine."
She continued: "She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine."
She said she wants her wife's legacy to be "one of kindness and love."
"We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love."
A photo of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, sits near near candles bearing the names of people who have been killed by ICE agents or died in custody, during a vigil for her in Seattle on Jan. 8, 2026.
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