MINNEAPOLIS — A shooting involving federal law enforcement has occurred in Minneapolis amid an immigration crackdown in the city.

ICE officer had decade of experience

Update 12:22 p.m. ET, Jan. 8: The name of the officer who shot at Renee Good has not been released, but officials told CNN that he had 10 years of experience with Immigration and Customs Enforcement with the agency’s enforcement and removal operations.

That portion of the agency deals with arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants. The officer was part of its special response team, CNN reported.

Despite calls from local and state leaders to have ICE removed from Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she is “not opposed to sending more” officers to the area after the shooting.

Minnesota officials blocked from investigation

Update 11:24 a.m. ET, Jan 8: Minnesota officials said the federal government has blocked them from being part of the investigation into Wednesday’s deadly shooting.

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said that after consulting with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the FBI and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, that “it was decided that the BCA Force Investigations Unit would conduct a joint investigation with the FBI” and that the “BCA responded promptly to the scene and began coordinating investigative work in good faith,” The Associated Press reported.

But the FBI informed his agency that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has changed its stance.

“The investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation,” Evans said in a statement.

“Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands. As a result, the BCA has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation. The BCA Force Investigations Unit was designed to ensure consistency, accountability and public confidence, none of which can be achieved without full cooperation and jurisdictional clarity,” he added, according to the AP.

Meanwhile, protestors gathered at the federal building in Minnesota to speak out on what happened on Wednesday, CNN reported.

Some of the federal response to Thursday’s demonstrations included the Border Patrol Tactical Unit, or BORTAC, which is trained in crowd control and dispersion.

Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino was also there, but there were no confrontations between him or the group, who asked questions but received no answers from Bovino, CNN reported.

Who was Renee Good?

Update 7:05 a.m. ET, Jan. 8: The woman was identified as Renee Nicole Macklin Good, who called herself a “poet and writer and wife and mom,” from Colorado, The Associated Press reported.

She had lived in Kansas City, Missouri, and operated a business called B. Good Handywork.

A woman who said she was Good’s wife said they had recently arrived in Minnesota.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Good was blocking ICE officers with her SUV and did not abide by officers’ orders, the AP reported.

“She then weaponized her vehicle, and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over with it,” Noem said. “This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism.”

As for the ICE officer who opened fire, that person has not been identified other than Noem saying that he was an experienced officer who had been hurt in June after he was dragged by a vehicle of an anti-ICE protester, the AP reported. Noem said he was hit by the SUV driven by Good and was taken to a hospital, but was discharged.

“Our officer followed his training, did exactly what he’s been taught to do in that situation, and took actions to defend himself and defend his fellow law enforcement officers,” Noem said.

Mayor speaks; has harsh words for ICE

Update 1:36 p.m. ET, Jan. 7: Mayor Jacob Frey said a 37-year-old woman was dead and that she was shot by ICE.

Chief Brian O’Hara said that the woman was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at an area hospital, The New York Times reported.

Frey said he has seen the video of the incident and that it does not appear to be what the federal government is saying.

“They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I wanna tell everybody directly, that is [expletive],” Frey said, according to The Associated Press.

He said that city leaders had been afraid of a situation occurring, adding that ICE agents being in the city are sowing chaos, placing the blame for the shooting on the agents.

Frey said, “an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed,” The New York Times reported.

He said it was not a case of self-defense, which is how the federal government is describing the incident. He said that there “were dozens if not hundreds” of agents at the scene, the Times reported.

The mayor pledged to do a complete investigation of the shooting.

He told ICE to “get the [expletive] out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here,” CNN reported.

O’Hara said the FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension are in control of the scene, and are investigating the incident jointly, the Times reported.

Noem calls incident ‘domestic terrorism’

Update 1:23 p.m. ET, Jan. 7: Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem called the incident preceding the shooting an act of domestic terrorism, saying that agents were trying to get their stuck vehicle freed from snow when the woman drove at them.

The Star-Tribune, however, said the woman was trying to drive away, according to eyewitnesses, and that the car had been perpendicular to the road before the incident.

Witnesses also said several shots were fired, the newspaper reported.

Rep. Ilhan Omar called the woman a “legal observer,” The New York Times reported.

Original report: The Associated Press reported that an agent fatally shot a woman who was trying to run over officers with her car, according to a post from the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin.

McLaughlin said that the agent “fired defensive shots.”

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said on X that he was aware of the incident, calling for federal immigration agents to leave the city.

Gov. Tim Waltz has called for calm in light of the situation, the Star Tribune reported.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that the agency sent 2,000 extra ICE agents to the area over the past two days, escalating “Operation Metro Surge,” according to the newspaper.

Police officers, along with federal agents, are on the scene, responding to protests.

At one point, a chemical spray was deployed on the crowd after they threw snowballs toward agents and federal vehicles, the Star Tribune reported.

Check back for more on this developing story.

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