Renee Good was a Minneapolis mother of three who loved reading books to her kids. On the morning of January 7, 2026, minutes after taking her 6-year-old son to school, she was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. Nearly nine months later, no charges have been filed, and her family says the federal government has never responded to them.

Now Renee's family is turning to the courts. On October 1, they filed two federal lawsuits in Minnesota. The first asks the U.S. government to take responsibility for her death under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The family filed it after waiting six months for federal agencies to answer their claim and hearing nothing. The second names the agent who fired, along with senior officials behind the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Operation Metro Surge. It alleges the operation was planned to undermine the civil rights of Somali and Hispanic Minnesotans, and to silence the neighbors who documented it.

DHS has claimed Renee used her car as a weapon. But videos reported by CNN show the agent fired into her windshield and then through her open driver's side window. Bystander footage shows he was clear of the car's path when he started shooting.

Renee's partner, Becca, now takes their son to first grade without Renee. "Living without her is like trying to live without the sun," she said at a news conference, according to CNN. Renee's brother, Brent Ganger, said her death "should not be a partisan issue, and it should alarm every American," according to CNN.

The U.S. Department of Justice and DHS must respond to this family, release all evidence in Renee's death to the public and to state investigators, and support a full, independent investigation. Every family deserves to know that government agents will be held to the law.

Sign the petition to stand with Renee Good's family and demand the accountability they've been denied, so no other family has to endure this loss.