Law enforcement members investigate the scene after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shot a woman on January 7, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Minnesota law enforcement officials announced Thursday that the FBI is blocking access to evidence related to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Wednesday in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Enforcement said the FBI’s stance was at the behest of the Minnesota Attorney’s Office and reversed the BCA’s original agreement to jointly investigate Goode’s murder with the FBI.
BCA Director Drew Evans also said the agency was “reluctantly withdrawn” from the investigation due to a lack of cooperation from federal authorities.
“We expect the FBI to conduct a thorough and complete investigation and that the full investigative file will be shared with the appropriate prosecutorial authorities at the state and federal levels,” Evans said.
Good was shot by an ICE agent in front of the SUV as she began to run away from another agent who grabbed the driver’s side door and reached into the vehicle, apparently trying to pull her out of the vehicle. Seconds earlier, an ICE officer had ordered the suspect to exit the vehicle, which had stopped in the middle of the road where an ICE truck was traveling.
The apparent reversal by federal law enforcement officials came after the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, charged Goode, a 37-year-old mother, with engaging in domestic terrorism and intentionally trying to run over an ICE officer with her SUV.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other Democratic lawmakers blasted those claims, saying the video of the shooting contradicts claims advanced by the Department of Homeland Security, Vice President J.D. Vance and others.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said at a press conference Thursday that the BCA is “not excluded” from the investigation.
“They have no jurisdiction over this investigation,” Noem said.
“I think it’s clear to everyone looking at this that the state of Minnesota feels left out of the investigation,” Walz said Thursday.
“I feel like it’s going to be very difficult to get a just outcome, and I can only say that because people in positions of power, from the president to the vice president to Kristi Noem, have already ruled and stood up and said verifiable falsehoods, verifiable inaccuracies,” Walz said at a news conference.
People visit a temporary memorial to Renee Nicole Goode on January 8, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Good was shot and killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on January 7, apparently trying to flee from agents crowding around his car.
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In a statement, Evans said that shortly after Good was shot, the BCA consulted with “the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, the United States Attorney’s Office, and the FBI.”
“It was decided that the BCA Enforcement Task Force would conduct a joint investigation with the FBI. BCA responded quickly to the scene and began coordinating investigative efforts in good faith,” Evans said.
“Late that afternoon, the FBI notified the BCA that the U.S. Attorney’s Office had reversed course. The investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to case materials, scene evidence, and investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation,” Evans said.
“We cannot meet the investigative standards required by Minnesota law and the public unless we have full access to the evidence, witnesses and information we have collected,” he said. “As a result, the BCA reluctantly withdrew from the investigation.”
“If the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI reconsider this approach and express an intent to resume joint investigations, BCA stands ready to re-engage in support of our shared goal of public safety in Minnesota,” he said.
—CNBC’s Luke Fountain contributed to this article.
