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SEVEN MONTHS, NO LAWSUIT

The Name That Comes Off the Case

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed by federal officers in January. Nobody has sued the men who shot them, and nobody will.

12 min readAug 29, 2026

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What to know about the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis | AP News

At 9:37 on the morning of January 7, 2026, Renee Nicole Macklin Good was in her car on a residential street in south Minneapolis, at East 34th and Portland Avenue, blocks from where George Floyd was killed.

She was thirty-seven, a United States citizen, a poet, and a mother of three. Her only prior contact with law enforcement was a traffic ticket. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer named Jonathan Ross fired three shots into her vehicle and killed her.

The sequence is on video, from four angles, including Ross’s own cellphone. Reuters verified them independently. ABC News reviewed them frame by frame against the metadata. The New York Times synchronized the angles into a single timeline.

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ABC News reviewed them frame by frame against the metadata.

What they show:

Ross approaches the passenger side of Good’s maroon Honda Pilot. There is a black dog in the back seat. Good is talking to him through…

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Dr. Janine Bouey
Dr. Janine Bouey

Written by Dr. Janine Bouey

Dr. Janine Bouey is an educator, investigative writer, former military intelligence analyst, and retired LAPD officer based in Southern California.

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