MINNEAPOLIS — Cellphone video taken by the officer who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good shows the driver and a woman believed to be his wife speaking with investigators shortly before the shooting.
NBC News obtained footage that appears to have been recorded on the cellphone of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot and killed Good, 37, in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
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The video begins with Ross getting out of his car and approaching Good's maroon Honda Pilot SUV from the passenger side.
In the video, car horns can be heard, sirens blaring and people blowing whistles.
The video shows a black dog sitting in the rear passenger seat of the SUV staring at Ross through the open window as the ICE officer walks toward Good.
She is seen wearing a knit cap and flannel shirt, with a red hoodie underneath, and smiling at Ross with her left arm out the window.
“That's okay, dude, I'm not mad at you,” Good said.
At the same time, Ross is approached by a woman who later identifies herself as Good's wife.
She came from the back of the SUV and said, “Hey, show your face, big boy. Show your face.”
Ross walks around to photograph the rear license plate of the SUV, then heads over to the woman.
The woman is seen wearing a backwards hat, sunglasses, a flannel shirt with a hoodie underneath, sweatpants and boots, and holds a cell phone up toward Ross.
The woman continued, “It's okay. We don't change the plates every morning. Just so you know, you'll get the same plate when you talk to us later.”
“That's OK, you're an American citizen,” she continued in the video as Ross circled the back of the SUV.
The woman appears to be saying, “Ex-veteran, disabled veteran.”
“Do you want to come towards us? Do you want to come towards us? I'm going to go eat lunch, big boy. Please.”
At this point, Ross again moves to face the passenger side of the SUV and wraps around the front. Two additional officers can be seen approaching the SUV from the driver's side.
One of the officers tells Good, “Get out of the car. Get out of the car. Get out of the car.”
A woman who later identified herself as Good's wife turned to get into the passenger seat, but the door wouldn't open.
Ross is facing the front of the SUV, and the woman can't hear him say, “Drive,” and then appears to say, “Drive.”
Good immediately turned the wheel toward himself from the officer and began driving.
Ross lets out an audible “whoa” scream and fires a gun, which can be heard in the video. The view of his phone's camera twitches, pointing to the sky, giving us a glimpse of his masked face.
Ross' cell phone leveled out and captured an SUV accelerating down the street. Just before Good's car crashed, a male voice said, “Fuck you.”
Aidan Perzana, 31, who witnessed the shooting, said he had just gone to look out the window when he heard the horn. He said it was clear Good was trying to run away from the officers, not to hit them.
“She turned to drive down the road,” he said. “I was surprised when I heard the gunshots. I didn't think she was going to hit someone. I didn't think the shooting was justified.”
Mr. Perzana criticized officers who allegedly refused to move an ICE vehicle stopped on the road so that an ambulance could reach the crashed vehicle.
“The ambulance never reached the block,” he said.
A woman named Betsy, who did not want her last name used to protect her family, said she was facing the SUV when shots were fired. The SUV crashed 4 feet away from her, she said.
Another woman opened the driver's side door and told Betsy to call 911, but the call was not made. Betsy said the moment turned terrifying as agents approached the SUV with their weapons removed and ordered onlookers to return.
“At that moment, I got really scared and ran into the front yard of the house in front of me to hide behind the fence,” said Betsy, who shared video of the aftermath of the shooting with NBC News. “It was really scary.”
Betsy said she heard officers yelling at the driver before the accident and saw the driver try to leave the vehicle.
“She was trying to steer her car away from a group of cars and agents on the south side of Portland Avenue, and the agent who fired the shots was standing next to the car, not in front of it,” she said.
Evan Frith, who lives in a home with direct view of the crash, said he witnessed firsthand what happened before and after the shooting, but not at the moment of the shooting.
He said neighbors had yelled at officers beforehand, but the situation did not appear to be dangerous to officers.
“So it was like neighbors yelling at them on their lawns,” Frith said. “There was no one in their faces, nothing like that. To say they were threatened doesn't make much sense.”
The yelling continued even after the shooting.
“The cops showed up and started putting up police tape and saying this was a crime scene,” Frith said. “People were screaming at the police to arrest the ICE agents.”
Goode's killing sparked protests across the United States, and the White House went on the offensive.
Vice President J.D. Vance accused Mr. Good of being “brainwashed” and part of a “broader left-wing network,” without offering any evidence.
“While I can believe that her death was a tragedy, I also recognize that it was a tragedy of her own making,” Vance told reporters Thursday.
Vance and White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt posted the video on their social media feeds, saying they believed it showed ICE agents were justified in killing Good. The video was also posted by the Department of Homeland Security.
The Rosses did not respond to multiple requests for comment from NBC News.
The Minnesota Star Tribune spoke with Good's mother, Donna Ganger, who called Good “one of the kindest people I've ever known.”
“She was very sympathetic,” Ganga told the Tribune. “She cared for people all her life. She was a loving, generous, loving person. She was a wonderful human being.”
Attempts to contact Good's wife were unsuccessful. Becca Good said in a statement to Minnesota Public Radio that Renee Good “has lived by the overarching belief that kindness exists in the world and that we need to find the places where it lives and do everything we can to nurture it where it needs to grow.”
Becca Good said the couple chose to make their home in Minneapolis, where they felt the community “looked out for each other.” She wrote Wednesday that they “stopped to assist neighbors.”
“Here, I have finally found peace and safe harbor,” she wrote in a statement. “That was taken away from me forever.”
Julia Ainslie reported from Washington, D.C., John Shupe and David K. Lee from New York City, Daniela Silva from Minneapolis, and Suzanne Gamboa from San Antonio, Texas.
