By Joseph De Avila
Local prosecutors in Minnesota are seeking evidence from the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent as they weigh their next steps in response to the incident, which has heightened tensions between state officials and the Trump administration.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Friday asked residents to submit videos, photos and eye-witness accounts of the shooting and the events leading up to it. Moriarty challenged Vice President JD Vance's comments where he claimed the agent who killed Renee Nicole Good had " absolute immunity" from criminal charges.
"The ICE officer does not have complete immunity here," Moriarty said.
The Department of Homeland Security said an agent fired in self-defense after Good attempted to run over officers who were deployed as part of immigration enforcement efforts, while Minnesota officials accused the Trump administration of spreading falsehoods in an attempt to politicize the encounter. While initially agreeing to conduct a joint investigation with state law enforcement, the FBI has now blocked Minnesota officials from the probe.
On Friday, Homeland Security shared on social media a video purportedly showing the incident from the ICE agent's perspective
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other elected officials on Friday asked the FBI to share evidence with the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
"Our ask is to include the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in this process because we in Minneapolis want a fair investigation," Frey said at a news conference.
Frey's comments underscore the deepening rift between Minnesota and federal officials over the shooting incident earlier this week. Minnesota state Sen. Zaynab Mohamed, a Democrat, said the Trump administration had misled the public about Good and has attempted to blame her for being killed.
"This federal government has given us too many reasons to not trust them to do the right thing," Mohamed said. "Everything short of a full and honest investigation is an insult to her memory."
Moriarty and Ellison said they will share any evidence they collect with Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. However, they said it was too early to tell if they would be able to collect enough evidence to make a decision about charging the officer. They noted they won't have access to the FBI's case file, including Good's car and any forensic or DNA evidence collected from the vehicle.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that Minnesota law enforcement had no jurisdiction in the probe. Noem described Good's actions as an "act of domestic terrorism," while Vance defended the agent and said Good was a "victim of left-wing ideology."
Moriarty disputed Noem's position that Minnesota law enforcement didn't have jurisdiction in the investigation, noting that Good was killed in Hennepin County.
"It does not matter that it was a federal law enforcement agent," Moriarty said.
Protests spread across the country overnight, with anti-ICE rallies held in cities including Atlanta, Houston, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego and Washington, D.C.
In Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz declared Friday a day of unity to honor the memory of Good and called on residents to hold a moment of silence for her.
Becca Good, Renee Nicole Good's wife, released a statement Friday saying her wife was a Christian who radiated kindness. "On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns, " Becca Good said in a statement provided to Minnesota Public Radio in her first public remarks since the deadly shooting.
Renee, Good said, has left behind three children, including a 6-year-old child who has already lost his father. "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," Good said.
Minnesota officials have been grappling with a social-services fraud scandal, which led the Trump administration to dispatch an influx of ICE agents to the state.
The administration is sending investigators to Minnesota to reopen the immigration and refugee applications of the state's Somali residents, to re-vet refugee claims and other materials in applications.
The administration has said it is willing to remove legal status and citizenship from people connected to the fraud scandal. However, stripping immigrants of green cards or refugee status is easier than revoking citizenship, a process that must be decided by a federal judge.
Elsewhere, political leaders have condemned immigration enforcement and suggested such a fatality was inevitable.
Speaking outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) described Good's shooting as murder.
"This has now turned into what our greatest fear is, and has been for a long time around ICE, that this will be used as an anticivilian force that has no accountability," she said.
In a separate incident Thursday, a Border Patrol agent shot two people during a traffic stop in Portland, Ore., in what the Department of Homeland Security described as an act of self-defense.
Write to Joseph De Avila at joseph.deavila@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 09, 2026 15:08 ET (20:08 GMT)
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