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New incident reports from the Minneapolis police and fire departments, along with transcripts of 911 calls, provide new details about the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good last week in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer.
According to a Minneapolis fire department incident report obtained by the Guardian, along with police records and 911 transcripts, paramedics arrived at the scene at about 9.42am on 7 January and found Good “unresponsive” in the driver’s seat of her car, “with blood on her face and torso”.
The report states that paramedics removed Good from the car and reported that she was “unresponsive, not breathing, with inconsistent, irregular, thready pulse activity”.
According to the report, paramedics identified two “apparent gunshot wounds” to the right side of her chest, another apparent gunshot wound “to the patient’s left forearm”, and a “possible gunshot wound with protruding tissue on the left side of the patient’s head”. The report also notes that she had “dilated pupils” and blood “discharging” from her left ear.
According to the report, responders moved Good down the block “for a more workable scene, better access for ambulances, and separation from an escalating scene involving law enforcement and bystanders”.
Paramedics began performing chest compressions and applied a tourniquet to Good’s left arm before transporting her to a nearby hospital. The report states that CPR was continued during transport.
Upon arrival at the hospital, the report states that paramedics continued chest compressions while hospital staff “assumed airway and ventilation responsibilities”. According to the report, “resuscitative efforts were discontinued at approximately 10.30am”.
The Guardian also obtained transcripts of multiple 911 calls related the shooting. Records show that the first call to 911 came in at about 9.38am on 7 January, roughly one minute after the shots were fired.
In one call, a caller told the dispatcher that there were “a bunch of ICE agents on 33rd and Portland, they just shot a lady point-blank range in her car”.
When asked if the woman had been shot, the caller responded: “She’s fuckin’ dead. They fuckin’ shot her.”
Later in the call, the same caller said: “There’s 15 ICE agents and they shot her, like, ’cause she wouldn’t open her car door.”
Another caller reported witnessing “fired shots into a car” and told the dispatcher that “ICE fired shots into her windshield”.
Asked whether anyone had been hit, the caller, who told the dispatcher that they were now across the street, responded: “Yes, bleeding.”
Describing the incident, the caller said: “I saw an ICE officer fired two shots through her windshield into the driver. She tried to drive away but crashed into the nearest vehicle that was parked.”
“I saw blood all over the driver, then the partner who was trying to provide assistance,” the caller said.
The dispatcher responded that help was on the way.
A separate 911 call appears to have come from someone who said they were calling on behalf of federal officers at the scene, requesting assistance from EMS and local police.
“We had officers stuck in a vehicle and we had agitators on scene” the caller said, adding that there had been “shots fired by our locals”.
The caller said that they did not have a description of the shooter, and they were “just trying to get assistance”.
When asked by the operator where they were getting the information from, the caller said it was “from our local joint operation command center”, adding that “the officers on scene are relaying to us to get in contact with you guys”.
The dispatcher told the caller that “we have help on the way”.
The documents viewed by the Guardian also include communications among law enforcement and emergency personnel.
At 9.47am local time, a message read: “NEED CROWD CONTROL AND AREA BLOCKED OFF.”
Three minutes later another message stated, “CROWD NEEDS TO BE MOVED BACK,” followed seconds later by: “CROWD GETTING HOSTILE.”
At 10.04am, roughly 15 minutes after the shooting, messages stated that the “AGENT THAT FIRED IS NO LONGER ON THE SCENE” and “HAS BEEN TRANSPORTED TO FEDERAL BLDG”.
At 10.07am, a message read: “CONTACT WHO IS IN CHARGE OF FEDS AND HAVE THEM LEAVE SCENE.”
At 10.20am, a message described the crowd as “GETTING MORE AGITATED” and, several minutes later, the communications stated that there was a “CROWD OF 20” attempting to “SURROUND OFCRS”.
At 11:01am, the communications stated: “ICE BEING SURROUNDED.”
And then at 11.20, it stated that “ALL ICE AGENTS HAVE LEFT SCENE” and about 18 minutes later it added: “CROWD CALMED DOWN NOW THAT ICE IS GONE.”
Trump administration officials, including Donald Trump himself, have claimed that the agent who shot and killed Good, identified as Jonathan Ross, acted in self-defense, and they have accused Good of trying to “run him over”.
That account of the incident has been widely disputed by local and state leaders in Minnesota as well as by eyewitnesses. Video footage of the shooting appears to show Good’s vehicle turning away from the officer as he opened fire.
Good’s killing has sparked protests in Minneapolis and in other cities across the US. And on Thursday, Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota in response to the protests against federal immigration enforcement operation, as Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, a Democrat, urged demonstrators in Minneapolis to be peaceful amid escalating tensions there.
The Trump administration announced this week that it is deploying “hundreds more” federal agents to Minneapolis to support the ICE agents there.
The day before Good was shot and killed by a federal agent, Trump immigration officials described ICE’s presence in the Twin Cities as the agency’s “largest operation to date”.
