The family of Renee Nicole Good has received more than $1.5 million in donations after she was shot dead by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.
Officer Jonathan ‘Jon’ Ross shot Good three times in quick succession on Wednesday afternoon after she allegedly ignored ICE agents’ demands to get out of her SUV.
A GoFundMe campaign created to support her wife Rebecca and Good’s three children, including her six-year-old son who is now orphaned, has amassed more nearly 38,000 donations in just two days.
The crowdfunder sought $50,000 to support the Good family as they ‘grapple with the devastating loss of their wife and mother.’
But the campaign was raised more than 28 times the requested amount, with one anonymous donor alone generously contributing $50,000. The total sits just above $1.5 million as of 3:30pm ET Friday.
Fundraiser organizers, in an update Thursday, said they are ‘brokenhearted and in awe of your generosity.’
‘My family met Renee and Becca after they moved to town and become fast friends,’ co-organizer Becka Tilsen wrote. ‘Thank you again for your compassion. They feel this tidal wave of care and it really matters.’
Good’s killing has sparked global outrage with furious Democrats branding Ross a murderer. But Ross has the full support of the Trump administration, who argue he acted in self-defense when it appeared Good intended to run him down with her car.
The family of Renee Nicole Good has received more than $1.4 million in donations after she was shot dead by an ICE agent just two days ago
A GoFundMe campaign created to support her wife Rebecca (pictured with Renee) and Good’s three children has already amassed more nearly 38,000 donations
The Goods lived in a rented home (pictured) Kansas City’s vibrant Waldo neighborhood for about two years but decided to flee the US after Trump’s election. They spent some time in Canada before deciding to settle in Minneapolis
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other Trump administration officials have defended Ross as an experienced law enforcement professional who followed his training and shot Good after he believed she was trying to run him or other agents over with her vehicle.
But video has raised questions about whether the shooting was in self-defense, and the FBI is investigating the deadly use of force. Some protesters are demanding that Ross face criminal charges, and Minnesota authorities also want to investigate.
Recordings of the shooting show an officer approaching Good’s stopped SUV. He grabbed the driver’s door handle as he allegedly demanded she open the door.
Her Honda Pilot began to pull forward and Ross pulled his weapon, immediately firing three shots and jumping back as the vehicle moved toward him.
It is not clear from the videos if the vehicle made contact with Ross. After the shooting, the SUV slammed into two cars parked on a curb before crashing to a stop.
Newly released surveillance video showed how Good apparently blocked the road with her SUV for four minutes before she was killed.
About 20 seconds after Good pulled up to the street, a passenger – believed to be her wife Rebecca Good – exited the vehicle and eventually began filming.
There is speculation that Rebecca Good, who admitted to bringing her spouse to the anti-ICE protest, exited the car so she could begin filming any potential clash with federal agents. She was seen wielding her camera during Ross’s confrontation with her wife but it is unclear when she first started to record.
agent Jonathan ‘Jon’ Ross fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis six months after he was dragged 100 yards by a car in a separate incident
Renee Good was shot three times in the face at a protest in Minneapolis and died at the scene
Rebecca Good, in harrowing video captured at the scene, admitted that she encouraged her wife to confront agents. She said: ‘I made her come down here, it’s my fault’
The Goods moved to their family to Minnesota just last year. They are understood to have fled the US after Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, going briefly to Canada before settling in Minneapolis.
Good then allegedly became involved in the community at her six-year-old son’s charter school and it’s local ‘ICE Watch’ group, which is a coalition of activists who seek to disrupt immigration raids.
Rebecca, in a harrowing footage captured at the scene, admitted she encouraged Good to confront agents. ‘I made her come down here, it’s my fault,’ she cried.
Witnesses have claimed Good, a mother of three, and Rebecca were acting as legal observers and filming the protest.
But Good’s mother Donna Ganger has denied reports that her daughter would have been ‘part of anything like’ the protests against ICE that were taking place at the location where she was killed.
The Trump administration has repeatedly characterized the shooting as an act of self-defense and cast Good as a villain, suggesting she used her vehicle as a weapon to attack the officer who shot her.
Vice President JD Vance said the shooting was justified and Good was a ‘victim of left-wing ideology.’
‘I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it is a tragedy of her own making,’ Vance said, noting that the officer who killed her was injured while making an arrest last June.
But state and local officials and protesters rejected that characterization, with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey saying video recordings show the self-defense argument is ‘garbage.’
A GoFundMe campaign sought $50,000 to support the Good family as they ‘grapple with the devastating loss of their wife and mother.’ It has already amassed $1.4 million
Ross is an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and ICE, according to records. He has been a deportation officer since 2015.
He was seriously injured last summer when he was dragged by the car of a fleeing illegal immigrant sex offender whom he shot with a stun gun while trying to arrest him.
The previous incident in which took place in Bloomington, Minnesota and left Ross with injuries that required 33 stitches.
The Daily Mail has approached GoFundMe and the campaign organizers for comment.
